The Charlie Kirk Show - The Story of the First-Ever Trump Rally

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00:01:29.000 Okay, I have a fun story here.

00:01:31.000 So I was going for a walk the day of the Arizona voter registration deadline.

00:01:37.000 And someone that I know in my area, I saw him and his girlfriend, great people.

00:01:43.000 And I walked by, they're like, oh yeah, you know how you're doing here?

00:01:45.000 We just moved here.

00:01:46.000 I was like, oh yeah, I know, of course.

00:01:47.000 And we love Trump.

00:01:48.000 I was like, are you registered to vote?

00:01:49.000 They're like, oh, it's like so complicated.

00:01:51.000 It's like, you literally have an hour left to do it.

00:01:54.000 And they're like, what?

00:01:55.000 I was like, you have one hour.

00:01:56.000 And it wasn't their fault.

00:01:58.000 It was just, you know, it's so confusing.

00:01:59.000 They're from Maryland where you can vote after the election.

00:02:02.000 So I was like, you need to go in a car right now because they couldn't do it online because they didn't, the residency requirement.

00:02:07.000 To their credit, they got in a car, fought rush hour traffic, got there two minutes before the county office is closed.

00:02:16.000 The county office was like annoyed that they were there.

00:02:18.000 They processed the paperwork.

00:02:20.000 Boom! 0.99

00:02:21.000 Just got the picture.

00:02:22.000 They voted for Donald J. Trump in Arizona.

00:02:25.000 That's what it's all about, everybody.

00:02:27.000 That's plus one.

00:02:29.000 And then I got another text of one of my neighbors.

00:02:31.000 Again, I'm doing the chasing every day.

00:02:32.000 It says, Charlie just dropped off my ballot.

00:02:34.000 And I said, hey, man, who did you vote for in 20?

00:02:36.000 And he said, embarrassed to say Biden.

00:02:38.000 I was still brainwashed at the time.

00:02:40.000 Worst decision of my life.

00:02:41.000 So getting one there is like getting two.

00:02:44.000 Getting a Biden voter for Trump is like getting two votes.

00:02:46.000 Chase, chase, chase, chase, everybody.

00:02:49.000 Okay, Cliff Maloney from Pennsylvania Chase is with us.

00:02:53.000 Now, Cliff, I'm not trying to put too much pressure on you, but basically the work you're doing in Pennsylvania will determine the future of the species.

00:03:01.000 Well, thanks, Charlie.

00:03:02.000 No pressure, no reward, right?

00:03:04.000 Exactly.

00:03:04.000 Look, I'm out here on the ground in PA. I give you mad props.

00:03:08.000 Total respect, Charlie.

00:03:09.000 Just like you, I'm out here chasing ballots.

00:03:11.000 We've got our team of 120 on the ground.

00:03:13.000 And here's where we stand, okay?

00:03:15.000 Democrats, I want to take one step back, Charlie, and explain what exactly happened in 2020 and then showcase where we are today, okay?

00:03:23.000 We're not outperforming Democrats the way you guys are in Arizona and states like Nevada.

00:03:29.000 Where we are is in 2020, Joe Biden received roughly 2 million mail-in votes.

00:03:35.000 Donald Trump received roughly 600,000.

00:03:39.000 So let's do the math.

00:03:40.000 Biden had a 1.4 million vote firewall going into the 2020 election.

00:03:48.000 And we won election day, but we only won it by 1.3 million.

00:03:52.000 That's how we ended up losing by 80,000 votes.

00:03:56.000 Well, right now, the Democrats keep changing their talking points.

00:03:59.000 And right now, Harris does have a lead, but her firewall is less than 400,000 at the moment.

00:04:05.000 And so we're tracking these numbers day by day, minute by minute.

00:04:09.000 We are in a great spot, Charlie, but I want to be very clear.

00:04:13.000 We could lose this race to Kamala Harris. 1.00

00:04:16.000 And that's not me fear-mongering.

00:04:18.000 That's not me scaring.

00:04:19.000 If people don't get out and vote, you look at the screen right there, 394,000.

00:04:25.000 That's her current lead.

00:04:26.000 So if you think, oh, we always rock Election Day, and oh, we don't really need to get out.

00:04:30.000 If you're in Bucks County, go to the county office right now.

00:04:33.000 Do your on-demand mail-in ballot.

00:04:35.000 If you're not in Bucks, make sure if you have a ballot, go to your county office today with the ballot.

00:04:41.000 Drop that off.

00:04:42.000 And if not, make a plan to vote on the 5th.

00:04:46.000 Guys, that number is that number.

00:04:48.000 394,000.

00:04:49.000 That's what we're down by right now in Pennsylvania.

00:04:52.000 So the projections look good based on what we're used to.

00:04:55.000 But this is a new year.

00:04:57.000 It's a new election.

00:04:58.000 Everyone must get off their rear ends and vote.

00:05:01.000 And I'm telling you right now, November 5th comes.

00:05:05.000 We're going to win this thing, but we need everybody on board and all hands on deck.

00:05:10.000 So let's go through numbers here, Cliff, if that's okay.

00:05:13.000 So the firewall is what again?

00:05:15.000 What is the blue firewall on partisan advantage?

00:05:18.000 Roughly 390,000 in terms of party returns.

00:05:22.000 I'm not going to get too high on our own supply here because this is a cope mechanism the Democrats do.

00:05:26.000 But because of public polling, some of those Dems are voting Republican.

00:05:30.000 Let's just be honest.

00:05:31.000 That's a thing.

00:05:31.000 But let's take the number and let's even round it up.

00:05:33.000 Let's say it's 400,000, okay?

00:05:36.000 Let's say it's a 400,000 voter firewall.

00:05:39.000 Cliff, how many Trump voters do we comfortably need to surge to win with no question this Tuesday?

00:05:47.000 What is our turnout target statewide in Pennsylvania coming in Tuesday?

00:05:51.000 I believe that if we match 2020, we cannot lose because we've seen such an increase in our mail-in voting, or at least we've kept par when the Democrats haven't.

00:06:00.000 I'm going to throw out a number there, Charlie.

00:06:02.000 I'm going to say we need 2.7 million.

00:06:04.000 Now, you might say that's high.

00:06:05.000 You might say that it's low.

00:06:08.000 But this is the whole excuse the Democrats have, is they're telling us now they're going to go from the party that votes early To be in the party that votes on Election Day.

00:06:16.000 But do not discount them, Charlie.

00:06:18.000 These Democrats will do anything they can to win.

00:06:21.000 And so I'd love your feedback on the winning number.

00:06:23.000 But in my mind, if we match our 2020 number and we get ourselves there, plus what we're doing with the mail-in votes and the Democrats dropping off, I think we've got a sound victory.

00:06:33.000 Yeah, and so again, it's all about turnout.

00:06:36.000 So can you explain to our audience, both in Pennsylvania and outside of Pennsylvania, voting culture on Pennsylvania, and what are the target areas?

00:06:43.000 Where do we just need to see a volcano?

00:06:46.000 And Democrats are going to try to get some of their voters out, which is, you know, tough for them on Election Day.

00:06:52.000 But where are the hot spots?

00:06:54.000 What are the counties?

00:06:55.000 Where are you putting bodies to be able to do this?

00:06:58.000 Yeah, sure.

00:06:59.000 So I look at counties, a lot of people think, oh, it's got to be Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.

00:07:03.000 Yes, of course there are ballots there, and of course we're targeting.

00:07:06.000 But let me give you the problem we had in 2020, and then I'll talk specific areas, Charlie.

00:07:12.000 In 2020, the Democrats, of all the ballots that were sent out to Democrats, roughly 87% came back, right?

00:07:19.000 That was their return or reply rate for those that have requested.

00:07:24.000 Republicans were 10 points less than that.

00:07:26.000 We were roughly 77%, depending on how you look at it.

00:07:30.000 And the problem was in 2020, Turning Point Action and groups like Citizens Alliance with PHAs and early vote action, we weren't in these states chasing ballots, right?

00:07:39.000 We were all pushing get out the vote efforts.

00:07:41.000 And I think that's the big change here.

00:07:43.000 And we have to see if we can come to par with what they're doing.

00:07:47.000 So we're in a lot of these different areas.

00:07:49.000 Obviously, Allegheny and Philadelphia counties, the population hubs.

00:07:53.000 We've got Center County, and Charlie, I've got to give you credit, one of our candidates in Center County that everybody said had no shot, she's now polling within the margin of error because of the event that you did at Penn State.

00:08:05.000 I want to give you tons of credit for that.

00:08:07.000 It's not just because of me, but we've worked our tail off.

00:08:11.000 We've registered tons of voters.

00:08:13.000 We had nearly 4,000 students show up.

00:08:15.000 It was unbelievable.

00:08:16.000 Is that a statehouse candidate?

00:08:18.000 Is that a congressional candidate?

00:08:20.000 Yep, that's a state house.

00:08:21.000 Therese Holland is now a competitive race, so keep your eye on that.

00:08:26.000 We've got Luzerne County, where we've got two competitive races.

00:08:29.000 That county has just flipped to Republican stronghold.

00:08:33.000 You've got Bucks County.

00:08:34.000 You've got Berks County.

00:08:35.000 And look, I don't want to say this like, you know, there are counties that don't matter, but at the end of the day, it's making sure every Republican ballot that has been sent out comes back.

00:08:46.000 That is it.

00:08:47.000 And Charlie, I've said this on your show before.

00:08:49.000 We lost in 2020 by 80,000 votes.

00:08:52.000 But 141,000 Republicans requested a mail-in ballot and never sent it back.

00:08:58.000 That is the problem we're solving.

00:09:00.000 And if we can drive all those ballots back, I think we win PA and I think we win handedly.

00:09:05.000 And I think it's going to come down to exactly that.

00:09:08.000 People turning out on Tuesday to make sure they vote.

00:09:11.000 It needs to be all hands on deck.

00:09:13.000 And so, Cliff, let's get a little bit darker.

00:09:16.000 What if all of a sudden people wake up sluggishly on Tuesday and we don't have big turnouts?

00:09:20.000 We lose.

00:09:21.000 And if we lose PA, we lose the White House.

00:09:24.000 That's the reality, Charlie.

00:09:25.000 And so this is not a persuasion question then, Cliff?

00:09:29.000 This is not about winning just soccer moms. 1.00

00:09:31.000 This is now, can we get our bodies off the couch?

00:09:35.000 Can we get our bodies out of the House and into a ballot, into a voting center?

00:09:41.000 Is that correct?

00:09:42.000 Yeah, that's the question here, folks.

00:09:44.000 Do you have a real plan?

00:09:45.000 Are you telling yourself you're just going to go and you show up and there's a three-hour line and you decide, hey, you know, I can't wait three hours, or are you going to be committed to it?

00:09:53.000 So put it on your calendar, jot it down.

00:09:55.000 If you use Google Calendar, toss it in there.

00:09:57.000 This is going to be mayhem, not just for Republicans, but even Democrats voting.

00:10:02.000 I mean, we're expecting super high turnout.

00:10:04.000 These are government workers, Charlie.

00:10:06.000 You know how we feel about government employees, okay?

00:10:09.000 These are not the best and brightest.

00:10:11.000 And so you're going to expect there to be problems.

00:10:13.000 There's going to be tons of things.

00:10:15.000 You've got to be prepared to wait in line.

00:10:17.000 We do not want an Arizona 2022 where, with all the gimmicks and the lines, people had the lead.

00:10:22.000 You know this better than anybody.

00:10:23.000 And so my encouragement is get there first thing.

00:10:26.000 In Pennsylvania, do you guys vote by precinct?

00:10:28.000 I mean, do you have enough voting centers to be able to absorb nearly 4 million voters?

00:10:35.000 Yeah.

00:10:36.000 I mean, I think the cities get a little tougher because it is so concentrated, but we have precincts.

00:10:40.000 They're broken down county by county, even at a local level, township and wards.

00:10:45.000 So every, you know, schools, churches, fire halls.

00:10:49.000 I think it's actually a benefit to us because the areas we're in are going to be less populated.

00:10:56.000 But look, I think there's going to be massive turnout.

00:10:59.000 So there's going to be weight and you've got to be prepared, but make a plan.

00:11:02.000 That's the key.

00:11:03.000 Cliff, excellent work, pachase.com.

00:11:06.000 So Cliff, you deserve the glory and the praise, and we've worked our tail off too in Pennsylvania if we pull this off.

00:11:13.000 Donald J. Trump and the future of Western civilization and maybe humanity and avoiding nuclear war is the question of whether or not we can get people off the couch and into the voting booth.

00:11:23.000 It is that simple.

00:11:23.000 Cliff, thank you so much.

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00:12:38.000 We've got four days left of the Trump movement.

00:12:40.000 With us is the organizer of the first ever Trump rally, otherwise known as the COO of Turning Point Action.

00:12:46.000 That's what your introduction should be, Tyler.

00:12:48.000 I don't know this more.

00:12:50.000 Is that true?

00:12:51.000 It's 100% true.

00:12:53.000 And I thought last night, if I would have run that event, I love Tucker, it was great.

00:12:56.000 I would have shown the video of the first ever Trump rally.

00:13:00.000 Tyler, tell that story really quick.

00:13:01.000 That was the first ever rally Trump ever did.

00:13:04.000 So I'm sitting, again, we've told the story a few times, but I'm sitting at lunch with Charlie in Chicago.

00:13:09.000 I think it was dinner in Barrington.

00:13:10.000 It was lunch.

00:13:11.000 It was lunch.

00:13:12.000 It was lunch with you, me, and Mike.

00:13:13.000 What restaurant?

00:13:14.000 It was Francesca's.

00:13:16.000 Yeah, you're eating a chopped salad.

00:13:17.000 I do remember that.

00:13:18.000 You're eating a chopped salad.

00:13:19.000 I remember when you got the call and you just left.

00:13:21.000 Yeah, I just got a call.

00:13:22.000 From Corey Lewandowski.

00:13:23.000 It's Corey Lewandowski.

00:13:24.000 He's like, hey, the GOP in Arizona is trying to block us from having any kind of event.

00:13:30.000 They don't really want to help us.

00:13:31.000 Will the county GOP do it?

00:13:33.000 And I was the chairman of the Maricopa County.

00:13:35.000 Mind you, there's never been a Trump event except his announcement.

00:13:37.000 You can look this up.

00:13:39.000 Never before.

00:13:40.000 And he'd done a few small little things in Iowa, but not that many people were showing up.

00:13:45.000 And they're like, do you think you can get 200 people in a room?

00:13:47.000 I'm like, yeah, I can get 200 people in a room.

00:13:49.000 Do this whole thing, Turning Point, everything else.

00:13:53.000 We know people, we're activists, and they're like, No way!

00:13:55.000 That's so great!

00:13:56.000 We'll have refreshments and everything.

00:13:59.000 I'm looking here.

00:14:00.000 List of primary rallies.

00:14:02.000 You have June 17th, 300 people in Manchester, New Hampshire.

00:14:05.000 And then Phoenix, Arizona, Phoenix Convention Center, 4,170 people.

00:14:10.000 So this is what's crazy.

00:14:12.000 My wife was there with my mother-in-law, right behind Trump.

00:14:17.000 And that's how you guys got originally connected.

00:14:19.000 That's how I met Erica.

00:14:21.000 And then how I now met my wife.

00:14:22.000 That's amazing!

00:14:23.000 The lore behind this is unbelievable.

00:14:25.000 If we didn't say yes to that event, sitting in Barrington that day...

00:14:30.000 Trump draws thousands in Phoenix, continues immigration theme, July 12, 2015.

00:14:36.000 This is like back to the future type stuff, but if I didn't hate the establishment so much...

00:14:46.000 I never would have agreed to do this, right, to begin with.

00:14:50.000 Erica never would have come to that rally.

00:14:54.000 We never would have connected.

00:14:54.000 And they probably wouldn't be married today.

00:14:58.000 All because of that moment.

00:14:59.000 And we wouldn't have two kids.

00:15:00.000 How crazy is that?

00:15:01.000 It was this cause set in motion.

00:15:04.000 But here's the other thing.

00:15:05.000 Here's the other thing.

00:15:05.000 I never would have had the gall to fight the establishment had I not been working for Turning Point and with Charlie and everybody else, too.

00:15:15.000 It's like such a balance.

00:15:17.000 The entire thing is like a meteorite of destruction for the establishment.

00:15:23.000 I mean, I guess that's really early.

00:15:25.000 You were just on board day one.

00:15:27.000 So it's a longer story, but...

00:15:30.000 It's worth telling.

00:15:31.000 My face, I like to imagine being one of the last faces that flashed to John McCain's brain before he passed.

00:15:37.000 And he was not a big fan of me.

00:15:41.000 But we want every McCain supporter to vote for Donald Trump.

00:15:43.000 Of course.

00:15:43.000 I'm just saying he didn't like me because they couldn't control me.

00:15:47.000 It had nothing to do with my politics.

00:15:50.000 I had nothing against John McCain.

00:15:52.000 I had nothing against anything.

00:15:53.000 We just wanted to get conservative things done.

00:15:56.000 And he didn't like me.

00:15:57.000 And so because of that, he hated Donald Trump because he was the first guy to come out talking about how illegal immigration is destroying the country.

00:16:05.000 And wars.

00:16:06.000 And wars.

00:16:07.000 Yeah, of course.

00:16:08.000 Yeah.

00:16:08.000 But the illegal immigration thing.

00:16:10.000 And so I get a phone call because Jeff Flake was tasked with talking to me.

00:16:15.000 And I get a phone call from Jeff Flake and he's like, Hey, Tyler, I saw that you guys agreed to do this thing with Trump.

00:16:22.000 And it was so verboten at the time.

00:16:24.000 Oh, yeah.

00:16:24.000 Because all the stakeholders, like, we could prevent this Trump thing if no one hosts him.

00:16:28.000 Oh, yeah.

00:16:29.000 Oh, yeah, yeah.

00:16:29.000 And they just didn't like him because they recognized that early, right?

00:16:35.000 Kill this metaphorical baby in the crypt. 1.00

00:16:38.000 To their credit, they recognized it.

00:16:39.000 Oh yeah, they said this thing's going to be a beast.

00:16:41.000 I remember I was doing radio hits.

00:16:43.000 I was with the Daily Caller at the time.

00:16:45.000 They would always ask me what I thought.

00:16:47.000 Initially, I was giving the bog standard.

00:16:48.000 Oh yeah, I mean, he'll probably lose steam.

00:16:50.000 They'll realize there's things that don't go with GOP orthodoxy.

00:16:54.000 And I feel to my credit, by late July, I changed my tack to, yeah, clearly normal rules don't apply to this guy, so I'm just not going to make any predictions about what will happen.

00:17:05.000 Well, the cool part about the whole thing was that the campaign, like, Corey had reached out and they're like, Can you get 200 people in a room?

00:17:10.000 We'll bring refreshments, we'll give you guys money, whatever you need.

00:17:13.000 And we're like, no, no, no, we don't need any of that.

00:17:15.000 I told them we don't need any of that.

00:17:17.000 And a lot of our people that have been involved with Turning Point for a long time were the ones that helped make that into the multi-thousand person event that it turned into.

00:17:27.000 Without that, a lot of people we still have on staff today that are here, that we're volunteering and getting involved with the party at a local level.

00:17:36.000 And that's part of the magic of what happened that ultimately turned into a first-round presidency.

00:17:41.000 And now here we are, fast forward, and we're doing all the same things still.

00:17:44.000 I want to play tape from that.

00:17:45.000 I didn't expect to say this, but by the way, this is one of the reasons why I'm worried about Tuesday.

00:17:48.000 This is a top-level streamer who's a man who has hosted Trump.

00:17:52.000 He says, Charlie, I think I messed up.

00:17:54.000 I forgot I wasn't registered to vote.

00:17:56.000 Is it too late to register to vote?

00:18:00.000 In this state...

00:18:01.000 He lives in Florida.

00:18:04.000 But this guy has hosted Trump on his show.

00:18:11.000 Yeah.

00:18:12.000 And men we trust.

00:18:15.000 We have so much lore.

00:18:17.000 It's like the nine years is kind of coming to an end on Tuesday.

00:18:20.000 I told my wife that yesterday.

00:18:22.000 How crazy is it that, you know...

00:18:26.000 I mean, obviously, Trump's going to win.

00:18:28.000 This is where we're at.

00:18:29.000 I hope so.

00:18:31.000 Trump's going to win in the meaning that we're working our butts off.

00:18:34.000 He's won the sentiment.

00:18:35.000 He has not won the vote yet.

00:18:36.000 Look, we have to win the vote.

00:18:37.000 We have to do the work.

00:18:38.000 But what I'm saying is that the campaigning around Make America Great Again hats is pretty much...

00:18:44.000 It may be done, right?

00:18:46.000 Isn't that crazy?

00:18:47.000 That's kind of sad.

00:18:50.000 That should give us the power and energy to push through the next four days here because we have to make every ounce, every bit of this worth it.

00:19:00.000 I said something interesting, Blake, yesterday to President Trump, and he liked it.

00:19:04.000 And I want you to fact check me, and then I've got to get to a read, and then we've got to get to Terry Dietrich.

00:19:08.000 I said, Donald Trump is the most famous person ever.

00:19:12.000 Probably is, to be honest.

00:19:14.000 With the rise of the internet.

00:19:16.000 The rise of the internet.

00:19:17.000 He's the most famous human being ever to exist.

00:19:20.000 He kind of has to be.

00:19:21.000 It's like, you think of how his visual omnipresence, he's been the most famous person, holding the most famous office in the most famous country in the world.

00:19:30.000 I think more famous than Obama, which you agree.

00:19:32.000 Yeah, I mean, he's just absolutely not as liked as Obama globally, probably.

00:19:37.000 But just in terms of sheer viral energy, you can probably not create an AI version of anyone better than you could of Donald Trump, and I think that's the best measure of it.

00:19:46.000 Yeah, the most famous man in the history is on the ballot.

00:19:49.000 It's just unbelievable.

00:19:49.000 Next to Jesus.

00:19:50.000 Well, Jesus was half man, half God.

00:19:53.000 Yeah.

00:19:54.000 Fully man, fully God.

00:19:55.000 At the time, Jesus wasn't as well-known.

00:19:58.000 I mean, he is now better now.

00:19:59.000 Even then, Jesus isn't as big in India or China.

00:20:02.000 Of those who have walked the earth, Donald Trump is number two to Jesus.

00:20:07.000 There you go.

00:20:08.000 Amen.

00:20:08.000 Joining us now is Terry Dietrich.

00:20:10.000 Terry, last time I saw you was a couple days ago.

00:20:12.000 I was in a van, and you came up to me right before a University of Wisconsin football game.

00:20:18.000 I was like, hey, that's Terry Dietrich.

00:20:19.000 And he kind of came up and said, hi, Terry, great to see you.

00:20:23.000 You are the chairman of the Waukesha GOP and the national committee.

00:20:26.000 Did I get that right?

00:20:27.000 Is it committeeman and chairman of the Waukesha GOP? Yeah, he's the national committeeman for the whole state of Wisconsin.

00:20:32.000 Yes, sir.

00:20:32.000 I'm double-duding.

00:20:33.000 I love that.

00:20:34.000 So Terry, Wisconsin is very difficult to pull.

00:20:38.000 If Pennsylvania doesn't materialize, it's all eyes on Wisconsin at that point.

00:20:44.000 And regardless, you guys have a very important Senate race and we need to play to win for Donald Trump there.

00:20:49.000 Give us a state of the race right now in Wisconsin and contrast that with where we were in 2020.

00:20:54.000 Yeah, literally, I think this is, again, down to probably a couple of points.

00:21:00.000 You know, the Get Out the Vote effort across the state, let's say, in the last four to six weeks on our side has been tremendous.

00:21:06.000 Thanks to, you know, Charlie and And your organization and MPAC and a bunch of others that have come in to help us at the county level.

00:21:14.000 I think we've done a great job just canvassing everywhere.

00:21:18.000 That fever has been really great for us.

00:21:21.000 And the bottom line is I think we're within one to two here.

00:21:25.000 I think we're just slightly up, so things are looking good.

00:21:29.000 So, you know, this is all hands on deck, pushing all the way through the end.

00:21:33.000 I definitely feel a lot more excitement on our side than I see from the Kamala gang. 1.00

00:21:40.000 They seem like they're reeling out here, kind of trying to just limp across the finish line, where I think we're doing really great.

00:21:46.000 And the excitement's tremendous.

00:21:48.000 We've got President Trump, of course, in Milwaukee tonight, so that's going to work out great.

00:21:51.000 Sorry about that.

00:21:52.000 So I think things are really looking good.

00:21:54.000 We've got a 186% increase in absentee ballot turn-ins so far in our county, and it's pretty much the same all through the wall counties around the state.

00:22:05.000 Our early voting has been tremendous, way, way above what we've had in the past.

00:22:10.000 Which I think leads us to the conclusion that, you know, Republicans have finally figured out the fact that they've got to get out there and vote early.

00:22:18.000 And we're finishing up that tonight.

00:22:20.000 And then obviously it's on to game day on Tuesday.

00:22:23.000 So I think things are looking really good.

00:22:24.000 But again, it's just like 2020 and the fact that this thing's going to come down to the margins and those low props getting out.

00:22:31.000 So we're not going to stop until Tuesday at 8 o'clock.

00:22:35.000 So let me ask you, Terry, this is a very simple question.

00:22:39.000 At this point, November 1st, do you feel better than you did in 2020?

00:22:44.000 I definitely feel that we reached out to a larger universe here in the county and the state.

00:22:51.000 Absolutely.

00:22:51.000 The low props, the new movers, the Christian groups, etc.

00:22:56.000 I don't think there was much of an effort back in 2020 beyond trying to just get our core red base out, and I think we've done a much, much better job at that.

00:23:07.000 Obviously, the very low prop chase programs that turning points implemented around the state, I think, are going to be absolutely record-setting.

00:23:15.000 I think that That could be the difference right there, the 40, 50, 60,000 extra votes that we pick up by that whole ballot chase program that you've had going for the last three, four months.

00:23:26.000 It's been tremendous.

00:23:28.000 I love the permanent infrastructure that's been put in here, working closely along with those folks and really going out and digging out those new votes.

00:23:36.000 That's the big telltale of this election, I think, in all of the battleground states, including Wisconsin, is Can we get a lot more votes out than just our core red?

00:23:47.000 And I feel a lot better about that.

00:23:49.000 I'm also seeing down in the, you know, Dane County, Milwaukee County, I just am not seeing the excitement level on the blue side that I've seen in the past versus us.

00:23:57.000 I mean, we're really out for blood on this one.

00:23:59.000 And so I'm feeling really good.

00:24:01.000 I'm really feeling good about that versus 2020.

00:24:04.000 We still have an election integrity issue in this state.

00:24:06.000 So we've got to be very, very careful about that.

00:24:08.000 But I just see the horses are all pulling in the right direction right now.

00:24:12.000 And if we push that all the way through to Tuesday, our early votes have just literally caught up, if not exceeded, the Democrats.

00:24:19.000 So that puts them in a position that they've really got to overperform on Election Day, which they don't have a habit of doing.

00:24:26.000 So I feel really good about this going into it, Charlie.

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00:25:33.000 Tyler, do you have a thought or question for Terry here?

00:25:35.000 Yeah, and I just want to reiterate, Terry has been the consummate leader in the Midwest, the type of leadership that we need, which is focused on the down-ballot races, focused on what's happening locally, starting from Alderman races in Wisconsin all the way up to your county races,

00:25:56.000 to these congressional districts, focusing on the county as a whole, Waukesha as a reminder to everyone, Is really in your top five counties in America that will ultimately determine the outcome of this presidential race.

00:26:10.000 So we're lucky to have guys like Terry that are out there that are working really hard.

00:26:14.000 But what he's saying is, being cautiously optimistic here, is that we've got to get the vote out ahead of Election Day.

00:26:23.000 We have to make sure that every single human being is prepared.

00:26:26.000 And we basically have three days to do that.

00:26:29.000 So we have today.

00:26:30.000 You have tomorrow.

00:26:31.000 You have Sunday.

00:26:32.000 Everyone goes to work Monday.

00:26:33.000 They kind of just set aside thinking about voting.

00:26:36.000 They don't really think about it.

00:26:38.000 You have this weekend to get all your friends and family prepared to vote and show up on Election Day, where in Wisconsin you have a tremendous amount of votes, like most of the Midwest, where most of your votes come in on Election Day.

00:26:51.000 Not a ton of absentee, not a ton of early voters.

00:26:54.000 You have a ton of voters on Election Day.

00:26:56.000 And so this is, I mean, this is the Russian roulette situation that we have right now is that did, is our messaging sticking?

00:27:05.000 And so I'm really glad that Trump is going to be in Milwaukee tonight because I think that injects a lot of focus and excitement that's going to be in the Milwaukee metropolitan area, what we call the wow counties.

00:27:15.000 So you have Waukesha, Ozaukee, and Washington County that are nearby.

00:27:19.000 Things right now, and Terry can probably tell you, he'll probably again be cautiously optimistic, But things right now from an early voting perspective are looking really good from an indicator standpoint in Waukesha.

00:27:32.000 Terry, tell us how you're feeling as it compares to 2020.

00:27:37.000 How has early voting changed a little bit?

00:27:39.000 And do you feel good about the numbers coming in right now in Waukesha, Ozaukee, and Washington?

00:27:45.000 I really do.

00:27:46.000 I mean, there was no push for early voting per se back in 2020.

00:27:49.000 So this entire unified effort to just educate people on the necessity of everybody voting, Early.

00:27:58.000 Boy, those first two days, especially last week, were unbelievable.

00:28:01.000 They were off the charts.

00:28:02.000 And when we looked, you know, we're a little cautious and thinking, well, that might be the Democrats getting their vote out early.

00:28:08.000 The vote total was so large that it had to be Republicans.

00:28:12.000 And as we started to track this over the last week and a half, we know the people in our county, I'm sure Washington and Ozaukee are the same.

00:28:20.000 We know that our folks, the good folks, the poor folks, are getting out.

00:28:23.000 Now what we need to do is make sure that we...

00:28:25.000 We don't cannibalize.

00:28:27.000 We make sure we've got that same day, election day vote, as heavy as possible, too, because we want to put the pressure on the Democrats.

00:28:35.000 I don't think they can muster any more than they've got as far as early votes on election day, which puts us in a really good position going into this thing.

00:28:43.000 I've never seen this, frankly speaking.

00:28:45.000 I've been around a long time.

00:28:46.000 I have never seen the early vote and the focus on low-prop voters and the focus on new movers and Christian groups and those types.

00:28:54.000 I've never seen such a concerted, consistent effort, let's say, over the last six to ten weeks.

00:28:59.000 We've been out 26 weeks as a county party knocking doors, and it's all been for low prop.

00:29:05.000 Those folks who may or may not vote, well, they're voting because we're knocking.

00:29:09.000 We didn't bother with our red voters.

00:29:11.000 They'll get out.

00:29:12.000 So we've expanded our universe tremendously.

00:29:14.000 So I'm looking for big numbers here.

00:29:16.000 We're a 62, 63 county normally.

00:29:19.000 I'm looking for 65, 67, 70.

00:29:22.000 I know that turning points goal in Waukesha County is 67, 68.

00:29:27.000 If we get that, we have the opportunity to pitch in another 15, 20,000 votes to this election.

00:29:33.000 And I'll tell you what, Trump supposedly lost in 2020 by 20,800 votes.

00:29:39.000 This race will come down to under 100,000 votes for the whole state, which is under a point and a half, one point to one and a half points I think we got the wind at our backs.

00:29:50.000 I think we're going to win it.

00:29:51.000 In closing here, how's Eric Hovde doing?

00:29:54.000 Yeah, it's good.

00:29:56.000 Well, look, all the numbers are telling us, the internal poll numbers are telling us he's either dead even or one up as of today.

00:30:04.000 And that's really good.

00:30:05.000 He was probably...

00:30:06.000 Realistically, down three or four a couple of weeks ago.

00:30:09.000 He definitely has the momentum here.

00:30:12.000 I mean, Tammy Baldwin is literally hiding. 0.93

00:30:14.000 We don't see her anywhere.

00:30:15.000 Nobody wants to talk about her.

00:30:17.000 She's trying to get across the finish line on fumes. 1.00

00:30:21.000 Eric, that's one of the reasons I'm out in the field today, guys.

00:30:23.000 We're preparing on Sunday and Monday.

00:30:25.000 Eric's going to be in our area for multiple events.

00:30:28.000 I know he's going to Lambeau with Senator Johnson on Sunday.

00:30:32.000 Right, and he was up there for Trump and Brett Favre the other day, which was fantastic.

00:30:37.000 Another huge event that was a lot of fun.

00:30:39.000 So he's all over the state.

00:30:42.000 I really think his messaging has been great.

00:30:45.000 Tammy's messaging has been very poor.

00:30:47.000 She's essentially hiding.

00:30:48.000 And Tammy might have made the ultimate error. 1.00

00:30:52.000 She said, quote, men and women's sports is not a burning issue.

00:30:57.000 And that is deeply unpopular in Wisconsin.

00:31:00.000 Right, Terry?

00:31:00.000 Right.

00:31:00.000 Absolutely.

00:31:01.000 You know, that's kind of what she's always run on is the LG and all that type of social issues.

00:31:07.000 She doesn't do anything in the Senate. 0.98

00:31:09.000 And now she's being exposed for that.

00:31:11.000 And of course, Charlie, we're out here, you know, we're all garbage.

00:31:15.000 We're all garbage.

00:31:16.000 We're nothing here in Wisconsin.

00:31:18.000 So I'll tell you what, the good people of Wisconsin have taken that personally.

00:31:22.000 And I can see it right now.

00:31:23.000 People are mad and they're ready to vote.

00:31:25.000 I love it, Terry.

00:31:26.000 Especially the younger people in the high schools and the colleges.

00:31:29.000 I'll tell you what, that vote is going to change.

00:31:32.000 And we appreciate you being at UW the other day because that made a big splash.

00:31:35.000 That made a big splash.

00:31:36.000 Terry, God bless you, man.

00:31:37.000 Bring this one home. 0.75

00:31:38.000 Thank you.

00:31:38.000 You too.

00:31:39.000 Thank you.

00:31:40.000 Thanks, guys.

00:31:40.000 Tyler, how are we doing at Turning Point Action right now?

00:31:42.000 Okay, so we're out in the field right now.

00:31:44.000 We're in all 10 key target states, but obviously we've had a heavier presence in Arizona, Wisconsin.

00:31:51.000 Our team is on the ground in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia, North Carolina, Ohio, Nevada.

00:31:58.000 We're chasing ballots in Nevada.

00:32:00.000 I mean, we are everywhere.

00:32:02.000 We're doing three things and people at home can get involved right away.

00:32:07.000 Number one, we have our Commit 100 program, which is going swimmingly.

00:32:10.000 So our Commit 100 program, we've done this.

00:32:12.000 It's novel.

00:32:14.000 It's never been done quite like this before.

00:32:16.000 And it's ThinkStar technology that we've developed.

00:32:18.000 If you have the Turning Point Action application, first off, you can be in any state and chase ballots.

00:32:23.000 It does not matter if you're in Alaska.

00:32:25.000 It does not matter if you're in Bangor.

00:32:27.000 It doesn't matter if you are in Rochester, Minnesota.

00:32:31.000 You can download the Turning Point Action application, tap the top left-hand corner of the three arrows, input your phone number, and it will get you started on knocking doors, making phone calls, sending texts, sending postcards.

00:32:41.000 You can do that today.

00:32:42.000 Our Commit 100 program, tpaction.com slash 100, enables you to go in and get assigned custom lists of 100 people to chase in key target states, specifically Arizona, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Georgia.

00:32:54.000 And we are also in Michigan and Nevada.

00:32:57.000 Those are going very well.

00:33:00.000 We have made millions of voter contacts in the past three weeks that were unexpected.

00:33:08.000 And then the third thing is we have our full-time Chase the Vote program that's out there, and we are chasing votes.

00:33:15.000 We are likely to break in Arizona right now.

00:33:17.000 The difference between Republicans and Democrats right now in vote totals about 150,000 votes.

00:33:23.000 We're nearing that.

00:33:24.000 Here in the state?

00:33:25.000 Yeah.

00:33:25.000 You mean what we've chased?

00:33:27.000 The statewide delta is like 180.

00:33:29.000 It's going to be once it gets reported officially.

00:33:33.000 It was like 170 yesterday, wasn't it?

00:33:34.000 Yeah, at the end of the day yesterday, it's about 170.

00:33:36.000 Our total is nearing that 150 mark from what we've chased and what we have to do now.

00:33:41.000 I've got to pause you there.

00:33:42.000 So we at Turning Point Action are responsible for how many low-propensity voters voting?

00:33:47.000 Almost the entire delta between Republicans and Democrats.

00:33:49.000 So 150,000 voters have voted because of us.

00:33:54.000 Yeah.

00:33:55.000 And otherwise might not have voted.

00:33:56.000 And it's not just any voters.

00:33:58.000 These are people who have demonstrated that they missed an election or they're brand new voters that we have to make sure they get started off on the right track and make sure that they vote and create good habits with voting.

00:34:11.000 So that's really exciting.

00:34:12.000 That's part of the reason why the data is coming out.

00:34:14.000 We're one of the only swing states where we're defeating Democrats right now in low propensity votes, which, again, people talk about, and you'll hear Steve talk about on his show, cannibalization of our Election Day voters.

00:34:28.000 We know that's not happening in Arizona because our vote totals are taking into account a high percentage of low propensity voters, which means people that we don't usually get to vote.

00:34:37.000 Yeah, so the numbers are just out, actually.

00:34:39.000 I don't know if you saw this.

00:34:40.000 We're crushing them with low propensity voters. 0.87

00:34:42.000 So of zero out of three election voters, 26% Republican, 22% Democrat.

00:34:47.000 Out of one out of three, 35% Republican, 31% Democrat.

00:34:50.000 So that means that they're not beating us with younger voters.

00:34:53.000 Those numbers are legit.

00:34:54.000 Well, we're tracking younger voters, too.

00:34:57.000 We're neck and neck right with the Democrats.

00:34:59.000 That's crazy.

00:35:00.000 In Arizona, we're neck and neck, which is unheard of from a percentage standpoint.

00:35:04.000 You know, we receive a fair amount of cantankerous energy.

00:35:07.000 We're neck and neck with younger voters.

00:35:09.000 That's unheard of.

00:35:10.000 And with Hispanic voters, the number's already in. 0.99

00:35:13.000 We're an 18% increase from 2020 in Arizona with Hispanic voters.

00:35:19.000 The Democrats are down about 8%.

00:35:21.000 So there's effectively a 26% delta increase for us, for Republicans right now in Arizona with Hispanic voters.

00:35:30.000 But we have to have a big weekend.

00:35:31.000 The Democrats are going to dump a bunch of ballots this weekend.

00:35:34.000 They're going to dump hundreds of thousands of ballots.

00:35:36.000 Arizona and Nevada in particular.

00:35:38.000 The weekend dump before the election, right?

00:35:40.000 This is the name of the game for the Democrats.

00:35:42.000 They're going to try to flood the system with a bunch of drop-offs. 0.88

00:35:47.000 Everybody followed all of the ballot harvesting stuff.

00:35:50.000 What they want to do is they want to just...

00:35:53.000 Pile up a bunch of ballots, shove them into boxes, make it absolute chaos down at the tabulation centers because they're not really capable of handling millions of ballots.

00:36:04.000 They really aren't.

00:36:04.000 They can't do this all at once.

00:36:05.000 That's part of the reason why the system is set up to be basically weeks and weeks before and weeks and weeks after.

00:36:11.000 So we have to do our job, get people to show up early in person.

00:36:15.000 Arizona, we still have polling locations open in the Phoenix metro area.

00:36:18.000 A lot of them, a lot of them, dozens and dozens of them that are open.

00:36:23.000 You can go to tpaction.com slash azearly.

00:36:26.000 That's tpaction.com slash azearly, which has all the links and the locations for the Maricopa County area, then down at the bottom for some of the other counties that are huge.

00:36:37.000 And we need to have a big weekend.

00:36:40.000 And let me ask one last question.

00:36:41.000 Our team is killing it, Charlie.

00:36:43.000 Can Cary Lake win?

00:36:44.000 Cary Lake can win if we have a good weekend.

00:36:46.000 This weekend will determine Cary Lake.

00:36:48.000 If we have a bad weekend, Cary Lake will lose.

00:36:51.000 If we have a good weekend, Cary Lake will win.

00:36:54.000 Oh wow, he's calling the shot.

00:36:55.000 I'm telling you right now, where the numbers are at right now, we're a plus 8.

00:36:59.000 If we have an amazing weekend, she could be a USN. We can increase this to 10+. 0.98

00:37:03.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:37:04.000 Email us, as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

The Charlie Kirk Show - November 02, 2024

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