The Charlie Kirk Show - July 24, 2020


The State of Trump 2020 with National Press Secretary Hogan Gidley


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Trump Campaign National Spokesman Hogan Gidley joins Charlie Kirk on the Charlie Kirk Show to talk about the Trump 2020 campaign and the incredible things that have happened in the past three short years. He also gives us an update on how things are going at the Trump campaign and gives us his thoughts on the latest in fake news and what s going on in the media.

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00:02:00.000 Hey, everybody.
00:02:01.000 Welcome to this special episode of the Charlie Kirk Show with the National Press Secretary for the Trump campaign, Hogan Gidley, who has been fighting the fake news media for quite some time and doing a great job of it.
00:02:10.000 Hogan, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:02:12.000 Oh, I really appreciate it.
00:02:13.000 Thanks so much for the time.
00:02:14.000 You bet.
00:02:15.000 How are things going at the Trump campaign?
00:02:17.000 There's a lot of fake news going on around right now.
00:02:20.000 And as our listeners know, the thing that drives me more than anything else is to make sure that we get the president four more years.
00:02:26.000 Nothing could be more important for the future of our republic and the future of our country.
00:02:30.000 Give us an update from the Trump campaign.
00:02:32.000 Yeah, absolutely.
00:02:33.000 And I agree with you 100%.
00:02:34.000 And I have been fighting the fake news media now for the better part of 20 years in politics.
00:02:39.000 And I've never seen anything like this campaign apparatus in my entire life.
00:02:44.000 The digital reach of the Trump campaign is unmatched.
00:02:49.000 It is the envy of the political universe.
00:02:53.000 The fundraising apparatus, also historic in nature.
00:02:57.000 And what's so great about that is it kind of dovetails nicely with all the historic accomplishments in record-setting time that Donald Trump has been able to deliver on for the American people.
00:03:08.000 I mean, you know, you run on promises when you're running a campaign.
00:03:12.000 He can now run on the promises that are kept because he did so many of the things, if not all, that he made promises on on the campaign trail.
00:03:21.000 So now that he's been in office and he has a record to run on, I do find it very interesting that Donald Trump in just three short years is running on a staunch, strict, tough record of protecting the American people at every turn, rebuilding our military and other things.
00:03:38.000 And Joe Biden has been in office for half of a century, and he's still talking about all the things that are wrong with this country.
00:03:44.000 So what's he been doing for the last five decades is what I want to know.
00:03:47.000 But here at the campaign, I think things are going really well.
00:03:49.000 We're buckling up for the next 100 days so we can finish with a flurry and bring this thing home for another four years.
00:03:56.000 Yeah, completely.
00:03:57.000 And the media has not at all portrayed how the Trump campaign has built out a true 21st century modern apparatus.
00:04:05.000 I think my favorite part of the Chris Wallace interview was the thing that I think the president and your campaign has talked about more, which is, and the American people won't tolerate a candidate that will not engage in the public sphere.
00:04:18.000 And Biden has been able to hide under the China virus restrictions.
00:04:22.000 When the president said, I can do this interview, and Joe Biden can't, that's a very winning message that you have a candidate that can actually communicate and is actually able to interface, whereas the other side is unwilling to do so.
00:04:34.000 Hogan, we get thousands and thousands of emails here on the Charlie Kirk show, and a lot of them are asking me, what is the message for 2020?
00:04:42.000 What is the theme?
00:04:43.000 How would you best describe that, and how would you brand and message the reelection ethos, if you will, for the Trump campaign?
00:04:51.000 Well, a couple of things.
00:04:53.000 First of all, let me just point out what you just said.
00:04:55.000 I think the part of the interview that you're right.
00:05:00.000 The president did a good job pointing out the fact that he could do the interview for an hour, but also, let's be clear, he did it outside in 100-degree heat.
00:05:11.000 There is no way that Joe Biden could last an hour with Chris Wallace, but he definitely couldn't do it outside.
00:05:22.000 I mean, you and I both know how we think that would kind of end up for Joe Biden.
00:05:26.000 So that's a very good point.
00:05:28.000 And, of course, I love the president fact-checking Chris Wallace in real time and showing him where he was wrong.
00:05:33.000 Oh, that was brilliant.
00:05:35.000 And then Chris Wallace edits the interview horrifically.
00:05:39.000 And so I thought you guys handled that very well.
00:05:41.000 The White House did, I should say.
00:05:42.000 Yeah, absolutely.
00:05:43.000 But look, I think as we move closer to the election day itself and we focus in on tighter messaging around this campaign, we do want to focus on rebuilding, restoring, and renewing what this country was under this president before it was attacked by a virus that came from China.
00:06:04.000 You know, when this president acted boldly, decisively to shut down travel from China and from Europe, he was mocked.
00:06:10.000 He was ridiculed.
00:06:11.000 Everything he did was wrong.
00:06:12.000 It was racist and xenophobic.
00:06:14.000 And Joe Biden led that charge.
00:06:16.000 And now Joe Biden's got to come out and say, yeah, no, it probably saved some lives.
00:06:20.000 And it's interesting because President Trump was right again.
00:06:23.000 And when the media is telling you and when the experts are, or they're reporting, I guess the media is reporting on what the experts are saying, which is 2.2 million people were going to die in this country, every single death is tragic.
00:06:33.000 No question about that.
00:06:35.000 But this president's action saved millions of lives.
00:06:39.000 I mean, that's just undeniable at this point.
00:06:41.000 And so thankfully, we have a president who isn't concerned by placating to the mainstream media or the D.C. elites, the D.C. establishments.
00:06:50.000 He wants to protect the American people.
00:06:52.000 And because he ran an election really that had no special interest group support at all, he's not beholden to anybody except for the American voter, except for the American family.
00:07:00.000 You see that every single day.
00:07:02.000 And he rebuilt this economy once.
00:07:04.000 He'll do it again.
00:07:06.000 And so I think that's going to be a large part of what we're talking about moving into the second term.
00:07:12.000 So a lot of the Trump base right now is wondering what to make of these polls.
00:07:16.000 I think the polls have been suppression polls and very deceiving.
00:07:21.000 What do you make of some of the recent polls that have come out that are not exactly favorable in the Trump campaign direction?
00:07:29.000 Yeah, you know this.
00:07:30.000 The president says they're fake polls, and he knows because they are fake polls.
00:07:33.000 It's the same pollsters, the same methodology, the same myopic view of how these things are conducted from 2016.
00:07:41.000 The same people who got it wrong then are getting it wrong now.
00:07:44.000 And you see that because in exit polling, for example, if we can get a little wonky for a second, exit polling in 2016 showed 36% of those sampled were Democrats.
00:07:54.000 Well, in this latest Fox poll, they sampled 46% Democrats.
00:07:57.000 That's 10% higher.
00:08:00.000 That's incredible.
00:08:01.000 So, of course, you're going to get that.
00:08:02.000 And also, national polls are typically junk because they take in a lot of voters from New York and California because those are the numbers on the rolls, meaning it's obviously going to be skewed left.
00:08:11.000 In fact, most national polls have 10% of respondents from California.
00:08:15.000 That's obviously going to skew the numbers as well.
00:08:19.000 But when you look at some of the, I know you've talked about this, Charlie, but when you look at some of the registration that's going on out there, it's overwhelmingly Republican over Democrat.
00:08:27.000 People are excited and enthusiastic about this president.
00:08:30.000 And you see, when he has an unannounced teletown hall, five of them this past weekend, we had over 4.5 million views as of Monday on those things.
00:08:38.000 He didn't even announce it and get 4.5 million views.
00:08:41.000 Donald Trump supporters would literally walk across broken glass to vote for him.
00:08:46.000 You can't get a Joe Biden supporter to click on a link to watch him on the internet.
00:08:50.000 It's embarrassing.
00:08:51.000 And look, I understand because every time he pops out of that hidey hole, he's talking about kids rubbing his leg hair and not knowing the date of the year of 9-11.
00:09:01.000 I mean, he makes a lot of mistakes, but it's worse than just the gaffing and the messing up.
00:09:06.000 It's the policies.
00:09:07.000 They're so destructive and so reminiscent of socialism because he's an empty vessel now that's been filled by Bernie Sanders and AOC and Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib and Elizabeth Warren.
00:09:17.000 And so it's a dangerous place that this former vice president, this shell of a man, is trying to take us.
00:09:24.000 And, you know, the president's going to stand up to it and stand up for America.
00:09:28.000 Yeah, that's well said.
00:09:29.000 And there is very little to no enthusiasm for Joe Biden.
00:09:32.000 You saw this in the BLM Inc. arson across the country where none of them had Joe Biden for president signs.
00:09:39.000 None of them had any sort of enthusiasm.
00:09:41.000 And you look at just when Joe Biden tries to do a Facebook Live, most of the comments are negative and there's very little response.
00:09:49.000 My question, though, Hogan, is do you think that people might not come and support Biden?
00:09:55.000 But do you think will they come to vote against Trump if they try to turn this into a referendum just strictly and solely on the president?
00:10:02.000 Do you think that they might be able to gin up support?
00:10:05.000 Or do you think that people have to actually go vote for something?
00:10:08.000 Well, I do think a couple of little layers there.
00:10:11.000 I do think the media is trying to make this a referendum on Trump, no doubt, because they definitely don't want to talk about Joe Biden's horrific record.
00:10:19.000 That's pretty obvious.
00:10:21.000 But as far as the voting is concerned, typically, and polls will tell you this, good polls actually, will tell you that people don't go out to vote against something.
00:10:31.000 That doesn't motivate people to get off the couch.
00:10:34.000 It motivates people to go out and vote for something.
00:10:37.000 And our supporters, many of those who were on the left politically, but have been getting kicked in the teeth because they were middle America and the manufacturing sector for decades, and Donald Trump came in and helped them, broke right through that blue wall.
00:10:52.000 Many of those supporters are 100% going to support this president.
00:10:58.000 So I just feel like as we look and move into the last hundred days here, the layered question you asked is absolutely a poignant one.
00:11:12.000 But people don't vote for negatives.
00:11:15.000 They vote for positives.
00:11:16.000 Now, with this whole Democrat wave of this universal mail-in voting, which is just absolutely fraught with danger and allows cheating top to bottom, that's insane.
00:11:29.000 So that's a problem we're having to watch out for and fight against.
00:11:33.000 But I think the president's going to be in good shape because people want to go out and vote for a future that they want, for a future that is going to be good for their children and for their livelihoods and for their families.
00:11:47.000 That's what people want.
00:11:49.000 And so I think that's what President Trump gives them.
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00:12:32.000 Well, one of the things I think the Democrats are going to try to do going into the fall is they're going to try to find a reason to not have the president debate Joe Biden, or they might have him do him over some sort of silly Skype call.
00:12:43.000 And I've been a huge, huge opponent to all these lockdowns.
00:12:46.000 I think they're doing such damage and destruction to our country.
00:12:49.000 I think we need to open up America immediately and instantaneously.
00:12:52.000 And I think part of the reason is that they're going to try to not have a presidential campaign and hide behind the lockdowns.
00:12:58.000 And that will hurt Trump in a lot of different ways.
00:13:01.000 How are you guys trying to position to make sure Joe Biden debates?
00:13:04.000 Because you can already start to see people put out trial balloons.
00:13:07.000 I think it was Thomas Friedman at the New York Times who said, yeah, Joe Biden shouldn't debate because of the tax returns or something nonsense.
00:13:14.000 And you can start to see, and Hogan, you know the media really well.
00:13:16.000 They'll float it out by some intelligentsia member like Thomas Friedman, who's a very loyal apparatchik of the Democrat apparatus, if you will.
00:13:25.000 And then they will start to repeat it on MSNBC.
00:13:27.000 Next thing you know, it'll be in the Zeitgeist.
00:13:29.000 Oh, maybe Joe Biden shouldn't debate.
00:13:30.000 What will Trump do?
00:13:31.000 It'll only help Trump, right?
00:13:32.000 We're only going to give Trump something he wants.
00:13:34.000 What can you guys do?
00:13:35.000 And your position, I'm sure, is you want the debates.
00:13:37.000 We need the debates.
00:13:38.000 Well, we want the debates.
00:13:39.000 But I think flagging it early is probably helpful.
00:13:40.000 Yeah, absolutely.
00:13:41.000 And we've been talking about that.
00:13:42.000 We want the debate.
00:13:43.000 Sure.
00:13:44.000 We want to see these two men stand side by side.
00:13:46.000 But look, I can already see, too, the narrative of the media is just trying to downplay it, you know, downplay and set expectations really low for Joe Biden so that he comes out and if he says three sentences, they're going to say, wow, he really cleaned President Trump's clock.
00:14:01.000 But the fact is, putting them on a debate stage is going to be very significant for a lot of reasons.
00:14:05.000 You get to see side by side the comparison.
00:14:08.000 And you know, Charlie, elections are about choices.
00:14:12.000 And I love this kind of line of debate here.
00:14:18.000 And you're so good at these debates.
00:14:20.000 You understand.
00:14:21.000 But I tell this to the media all the time.
00:14:22.000 You don't have to guess what the economy would look like with Joe Biden.
00:14:25.000 You saw it for eight years.
00:14:27.000 Kick the American worker in the tee, 60,000 manufacturing plants shut down, 3.5 million jobs to China, depressed wages.
00:14:33.000 We all know the stats.
00:14:34.000 Donald Trump, 7 million jobs, created 500,000 manufacturing, stock market record highs, cut taxes, cut regulations, business is coming back.
00:14:42.000 The difference side by side, the choice is so clear.
00:14:46.000 And you don't have to guess what it would look like in our city streets if Joe Biden were elected.
00:14:50.000 The lawlessness, the looting, the rioting, the assaults on innocent Americans, burning churches.
00:14:55.000 He didn't say anything except defund the police.
00:14:58.000 So when you put those things in a real-time comparison, the American people are going to see someone in Donald Trump who has real successes to show that have improved their lives greatly, regardless of color, race, religion, or creed.
00:15:11.000 And Joe Biden, who for 50 years has been in office, paid by the taxpayer, and is still complaining today about the same things he was complaining about 50 years ago when he was palling around with white supremacists.
00:15:25.000 I mean, that's going to be a big difference.
00:15:27.000 I think that's something we can point to. 0.99
00:15:29.000 Well, and Joe Biden is a bitter, he's a bitter racist, and we need to call him a racist. 0.98
00:15:34.000 The left doesn't know how to deal with things when you call them a racist. 0.98
00:15:36.000 All of a sudden, they say, oh, you're not allowed to say that.
00:15:38.000 Like, no, you're racist because you call us that every single day.
00:15:40.000 Joe Biden was best friends with segregationists.
00:15:43.000 Joe Biden wanted segregated by bus and was even called out by his now best friend, Senator Kamala Harris, when she said that little girl was me about a year ago.
00:15:52.000 Joe Biden said you can't walk into a 7-Eleven without a slight Indian accent. 0.86
00:15:56.000 Joe Biden called black people super predators in the 1990s. 0.92
00:15:59.000 Joe Biden authored the Clinton crime bill. 0.98
00:16:01.000 Joe Biden said he'd never seen a good-looking, smooth-talking black man until Barack Obama. 0.98
00:16:06.000 Joe Biden is a bitter racist, and we need to say that. 0.97
00:16:08.000 And we need to say it clearly and enthusiastically, not enthusiastically, but very clearly and loudly. 0.96
00:16:13.000 And like all things, and the president's the best at this, and I believe he will do this even more, once we have a campaign.
00:16:19.000 And we have to keep reminding ourselves that we don't really have a campaign right now.
00:16:22.000 And I mean that in the sense where Joe Biden's not campaigning.
00:16:25.000 In order for a campaign to exist, you need someone to be able to have back and forth and rallies and all that.
00:16:30.000 And I guess part of it's going to be when Joe Biden picks a vice president.
00:16:34.000 Today there was a story that came out and is in Politico about the RNC restricting convention attendance.
00:16:41.000 Can you give us an update about the Republican National Convention and what you guys are planning for that?
00:16:47.000 Yeah, it looks like the first few days are going to be resigned to just delegates, not alternates.
00:16:52.000 Look, the president wants to have a convention.
00:16:54.000 He wants to thank the great state of Florida, one of those toss-up states that actually helped catapult him to the actual presidency.
00:17:04.000 He wants to deliver a message directly to the American people.
00:17:07.000 He wants to get out there and show everyone he's excited and ready for a second term.
00:17:14.000 And let's be honest, the supporters, the voters want to see him as well.
00:17:18.000 And they want to get out there and cheer on the man who systematically changed their lives for the better.
00:17:24.000 And so right now, we're working with the officials on the ground, the governor, the law enforcement, of course, the mayor as well.
00:17:32.000 So we're trying to figure out exactly how this thing's going to look right now.
00:17:37.000 But I can assure you this, we're going to do it in a safe way.
00:17:41.000 And with temperature checks for every single person and hand sanitizer and masks for every single person.
00:17:48.000 That's a heck of a lot more than the looters and the rioters did.
00:17:52.000 In fact, I often joke that I almost wish the federal government hadn't given $1.6 billion to Project Warp Speed to try and find a vaccine.
00:18:02.000 The Democrats found it.
00:18:03.000 The media found it.
00:18:04.000 They told us.
00:18:05.000 All you got to do is go out and smash in storefronts, and that's not going to spread the virus.
00:18:09.000 You want to riot in the streets and burn down churches?
00:18:11.000 That's not going to spread the virus.
00:18:14.000 So I almost wish they hadn't spent the money because it seems like they found the cure.
00:18:17.000 But we're putting in safety measures and regardless of how this convention actually looks, and we're excited to move forward with it.
00:18:24.000 Well, and I encourage, I would love to see a full convention.
00:18:28.000 And I know that you guys have internal decisions to make with all that.
00:18:31.000 I totally appreciate it.
00:18:32.000 But you look at our event that we did in Phoenix.
00:18:34.000 We had 3,400 students there.
00:18:36.000 We have no evidence as of the recording of this that there was any surge in cases at all whatsoever with 3,400 young people in the room hearing from the president of the United States.
00:18:45.000 And also South Dakota.
00:18:46.000 The president gave one of the best speeches of his presidency.
00:18:49.000 It was a phenomenal speech.
00:18:50.000 Really was.
00:18:50.000 Right in front of Mount Rushmore.
00:18:52.000 And just as of three days ago, there were active cases were down by 10 in South Dakota with no new deaths.
00:18:59.000 That was three days ago.
00:19:01.000 And there was a slight increase about 10 days later, but part of that is just probably baked into tourist season.
00:19:06.000 But it wasn't the surge that the people said that there would be.
00:19:09.000 So I think that there is, I think there is more space to be able to do live events again.
00:19:13.000 And I know you guys are tracking that very closely and make the best and most informed decision.
00:19:17.000 And I think that this is the president's greatest political asset.
00:19:20.000 I mean, it's something that historically we've never seen before, where a president can just show up without a rock band or a famous celebrity and just draw 30,000 people.
00:19:30.000 I mean, we've never seen anything like it.
00:19:32.000 And Joe Biden wants to rob that.
00:19:34.000 He wants to take it away from the president.
00:19:37.000 Of course, because the contrast is so stark.
00:19:39.000 Again, it's about choices, but when you have one on one hand and one on the other, you're absolutely right.
00:19:44.000 Joe Biden didn't want to see the president filling up these arenas, overflowing with capacity and overflow parking lots full with big screens and everything else.
00:19:53.000 He didn't want to see that because he knows he can't pull that.
00:19:56.000 Not just that.
00:19:57.000 He couldn't last for a two-hour rally.
00:20:01.000 There's no way.
00:20:02.000 So, you know, again, I'm anxious to see how this thing's going to turn out and how it's going to look.
00:20:07.000 The media is covering for Joe Biden at every single turn, regardless of what he says.
00:20:12.000 You point out articulately just a moment ago, the left always accuses the right of the very thing they themselves are guilty of actually doing.
00:20:22.000 Yeah, it's absolutely insane.
00:20:24.000 I joked the other day.
00:20:25.000 I watched this whole defund the police argument.
00:20:28.000 The media just, you know, Chris Wallace was chief among them saying, no, no, he didn't.
00:20:32.000 He never said defund the police, sir.
00:20:33.000 He never said defund the police.
00:20:34.000 He said redirect.
00:20:37.000 Will you redirect funding?
00:20:38.000 He said, yes, absolutely.
00:20:39.000 And I ask everyone listening to this interview, I'm not going to defund you.
00:20:44.000 I'm just going to redirect money out of your paycheck into my bank account.
00:20:47.000 That's defunding.
00:20:48.000 That's cutting.
00:20:49.000 That's insane. 0.96
00:20:50.000 But to watch the media try and twist this to make Joe Biden seem like he's not radical is just absolutely ludicrous. 0.81
00:20:58.000 Yes, yes.
00:20:59.000 And the president, I mean, look, the president did a phenomenal job with the Chris Wallace interview. 0.97
00:21:03.000 And I thought Chris Wallace made a fool of himself.
00:21:06.000 The way he handled that was, I mean, I have never seen him be that tough on anyone.
00:21:10.000 And he tried to, it was really a bizarre interview, to be honest.
00:21:13.000 He was cutting back and forth with him, with James Comey, to prove that he was really tough.
00:21:17.000 And the question he asked James Comey was like the lightest softball question ever.
00:21:22.000 And then he goes with the president and is like, you're not telling the truth to the American people.
00:21:26.000 And if the president, the fact that he actually endured the entire interview, I think really shows a contrast.
00:21:31.000 And I think the more, every time the president sits down with one of these apparatchiks like Chris Wallace, he should say, Joe Biden can't do this.
00:21:39.000 And I know from voters in my own personal circle, they get very silent, and they agree that the president is willing to talk to anyone at any time.
00:21:48.000 And I think it's one of the president's greatest assets and one of his greatest selling points is that he is unafraid to have these kind of conversations.
00:21:55.000 And that's why I think the president should do Joe Rogan's podcast.
00:21:58.000 Could you imagine Joe Biden on Joe Rogan's podcast?
00:22:00.000 I mean, for three hours?
00:22:02.000 I mean, it would actually be a medical emergency.
00:22:05.000 I think that it would be...
00:22:06.000 In fairness, it would be can't miss.
00:22:09.000 That's exactly right.
00:22:10.000 The president would handle it really well because the president loves that sort of stuff.
00:22:13.000 And I think that the more that we're able to portray to America that you have a very committed and obviously qualified person in a variety of ways as president and someone that you can actually trust to be able to rebuild the American economy.
00:22:28.000 So in closing, Hogan, I know we only have a couple minutes left here.
00:22:33.000 There are a lot of people that need a message of hope.
00:22:36.000 Our podcast is getting record amounts of listens and downloads.
00:22:39.000 And I get emails from people that say, Charlie, is it over?
00:22:42.000 What can I do?
00:22:43.000 I mean, is our country done?
00:22:45.000 Is the campaign over with?
00:22:46.000 And I know, Hogan, it's hard to hear sometimes, but can you just give that message of how it's still very early in the campaign, how in 2016 we went through the very same similar stuff that they're doing now, and they're trying to develop again, acting as if we don't remember?
00:22:59.000 What's your message to those people?
00:23:01.000 Well, I can give that message, Charlie, because it's true.
00:23:04.000 Look, America is the greatest idea ever realized.
00:23:10.000 It is a true beacon of goodness, of strength, of hope, and compassion across the globe.
00:23:16.000 You know, we're talking right now because you love this country and because you cherish what we are, who we are as a people.
00:23:23.000 And difficult times are not unique to America.
00:23:26.000 They're just not.
00:23:27.000 But what is unique to this nation is that after we face down to adversity, we get through it together and we come out stronger.
00:23:35.000 That, to me, is the message of what America is.
00:23:38.000 And you pointed out the president's speech from Mount Rushmore.
00:23:40.000 My goodness, what an incredible speech.
00:23:43.000 It was unifying.
00:23:44.000 It was uplifting.
00:23:45.000 It was patriotic.
00:23:47.000 He loves his country.
00:23:49.000 And his policies made the lives better for every single American, regardless of their race or color or religion or creed.
00:23:57.000 You've never seen a president like this in modern history.
00:24:00.000 Not just who can fight back against a mainstream media that's out to get him or a left that the right is used to kowtowing to.
00:24:09.000 This president cares deeply about the country.
00:24:13.000 And we've talked about the successes.
00:24:14.000 You've talked about it.
00:24:15.000 I'm not going to rattle off all of them here on the call.
00:24:19.000 But this is a stark difference.
00:24:20.000 This is an obvious choice.
00:24:22.000 A vote for Donald Trump is a vote for you.
00:24:24.000 A vote for Donald Trump is a vote for America and its greatness.
00:24:30.000 And that's something that I think no one can take away.
00:24:32.000 And while the media are doing their level best to try and lie about this president and fulfill their own selfish socialist agendas, I think the American people are standing up and saying no more.
00:24:44.000 And these autonomous zones are absolutely ludicrous.
00:24:50.000 And you see what democratic governance not just has led to, but has allowed ever since.
00:24:56.000 And so I just want your folks not to get down because Joe Biden doesn't just think America is inherently evil.
00:25:04.000 He thinks it's the cause of the world's problems.
00:25:08.000 That's a complete different opinion.
00:25:11.000 And quite frankly, it's just not true.
00:25:13.000 But Donald Trump's not in that position.
00:25:15.000 He thinks this country is great.
00:25:17.000 He thinks it's faced tough times.
00:25:19.000 We've come through it together.
00:25:20.000 We're going to get through it together again, and we're going to come out so much more unified and so much stronger on the backside because at its core, this country is a wonderful place to live.
00:25:31.000 It is inherently good.
00:25:32.000 And people should thank God every day that they get to live in the freest, most prosperous place on the planet.
00:25:40.000 Amen.
00:25:40.000 I think the more that people recognize who Joe Biden is and the forces behind him, this race will really begin to tip in the president's favor.
00:25:48.000 And never count out the president.
00:25:50.000 One of my other favorite lines of the Chris Wallace interview was: boy, people have counted me out before, and that is not a good bet to make.
00:25:56.000 And I completely and totally agree with that.
00:25:58.000 So, Hogan, I know you got a busy schedule.
00:26:00.000 Thank you for joining us.
00:26:01.000 Keep the faith, and we'll be celebrating once the president gets re-elected.
00:26:04.000 So, thanks so much, man.
00:26:05.000 Hey, keep up the good work, Charlie.
00:26:07.000 I really appreciate you out there fighting.
00:26:08.000 I love watching the videos on TV, on YouTube, everywhere.
00:26:11.000 And you guys keep up the fight.
00:26:12.000 We're here with you.
00:26:13.000 Thanks, man.
00:26:14.000 See you soon.
00:26:14.000 Appreciate it.
00:26:15.000 Thanks.
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