The Charlie Kirk Show - The Three Issues Republicans Must Own

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00:01:25.000 So there's a lot happening in DC right now.

00:01:28.000 There's a lot of conversation.

00:01:29.000 Chuck Schumer, Ukraine, Hakeem Jeffries, they're negotiating over some sort of deal with Speaker Johnson to try to get Ukraine funding and border funding.

00:01:38.000 And I want to take this hour to obviously cover the events that are unfolding in DC, but also let's lay out three issues that are happening right now that Republicans can run on and win on.

00:01:51.000 You see, there's a lot of questions about what should the 2024 election be about?

00:01:55.000 And there's several answers to that question.

00:01:58.000 One of them, though, one of the answers is not one that typical Republican consultants will focus on.

00:02:04.000 Yes, the economy matters.

00:02:05.000 Yes, inflation matters.

00:02:06.000 But there are three easy wins.

00:02:09.000 There are three issues sitting right in front of us that are unfolding in real time that DC politicians are afraid of tackling.

00:02:16.000 And the first of which, and we're going to go through all three throughout this hour, three issues that Republicans can embrace, own, and run on to win over moderate voters, conservative voters this election year.

00:02:31.000 And of course, the first one is mass migration.

00:02:34.000 We talked about this at length yesterday.

00:02:37.000 We talked about how mass migration creates the preconditions for a political correction.

00:02:43.000 If you bring in hundreds of thousands of foreigners illegally into the country, give them airline tickets and have Border Patrol assume the role of an expedia travel agent. 0.93

00:02:55.000 It starts to create rumbles in the homeland, homeland.

00:02:59.000 People know that this is wrong.

00:03:01.000 People know that this is unjust.

00:03:03.000 People know that this is effectively cutting in line.

00:03:07.000 I think back to times, whether it be at Six Flags Great America in Gurney, Illinois, or whether it be waiting in line to go to a sporting event or waiting in line at TSA, the angriest I see, the rank in file.

00:03:20.000 There's something that hits our soul when we see people cut in line.

00:03:27.000 When you see people cut in line, it doesn't take a huge explanation.

00:03:31.000 You don't need a Socratic dialogue.

00:03:34.000 You don't need some sort of rational, reasonable explanation.

00:03:39.000 You could do that if necessary, but there is a primal reaction when you see an individual cut in line.

00:03:47.000 There's something significantly unjust when you see an individual who did not earn it, who did not wait for it, arrive and just say, it's mine.

00:03:58.000 That is happening with 10,000, 12,000, 15,000 people a day.

00:04:06.000 And we're starting to see the consequence of that.

00:04:10.000 Increase in crime, increase in lootings, increase in robberies.

00:04:14.000 We're seeing the fentanyl, the raping, the incredible amount of public social services that are being overwhelmed and overrun.

00:04:24.000 And Democrats right now, they're going all in on trying to prioritize a foreign conflict over a domestic crisis.

00:04:33.000 Now, never underestimate Republicans' ability to fumble or screw up a winning political issue.

00:04:41.000 Speaker Johnson, we were very critical about how this fight should have happened a couple months ago, but that's over.

00:04:46.000 It's done.

00:04:47.000 The fight is here right now.

00:04:49.000 Democrats are inviting you.

00:04:51.000 They are taunting you into a political judo match that you can actually win.

00:05:00.000 Every public opinion poll, every conversation you have outside of the 95% Washington, D.C. incestuous, let's just say confab is pointing towards immigration being a major issue.

00:05:18.000 Happening in New York City, happening in Chicago, happening in Milwaukee, happening in Detroit.

00:05:24.000 Rank and file Democrats are getting ticked off that their cities are being overrun by foreigners, that they are not being prioritized.

00:05:34.000 Because again, it does not take an elaborate or detailed explanation when you see somebody cut in line.

00:05:41.000 If you're sitting in traffic and someone swerves into you, you get angry and you should get angry.

00:05:45.000 If you're waiting to get screened by TSA and all of a sudden someone shows up and they say, oh, sorry, I'm late for my flight.

00:05:52.000 Part of you has compassion, but part of you're like, well, why do you wake up earlier?

00:05:55.000 Why didn't you wait in line?

00:05:56.000 We've been here since 5 a.m., pal.

00:05:59.000 And you should get that kind of anger.

00:06:01.000 And that is happening all day, every day.

00:06:04.000 This is a cut here of a top black influencer.

00:06:09.000 To his credit, he speaks the truth more than not.

00:06:11.000 He's wrong on so much stuff, but he's very, very powerful and he's entertaining.

00:06:15.000 He obviously has talent.

00:06:17.000 And to his credit, he doesn't just always toe the party line.

00:06:20.000 It's Charlemagne the God.

00:06:22.000 He hosts a show called The Breakfast Club on New York Radio and is listened to to one of the top black political podcasts out there.

00:06:31.000 And he's very, very well respected in the black community.

00:06:34.000 I have, I honestly, I think he has some hope.

00:06:37.000 I have some hope for Charlemagne the God.

00:06:39.000 At times, he'll be a regime type puppet and spokesperson, but he pushes back against people like Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton.

00:06:47.000 In fact, Hillary Clinton had one of the most embarrassing dialogues of her political career with Charlemagne the God, the whole hot sauce thing.

00:06:55.000 And so I have hope for Charlemagne the God.

00:06:57.000 I think that he's going to really be more and more of a free thinker, especially as we continue to move the Overton window.

00:07:04.000 And he speaks truth.

00:07:06.000 They can't control him and it bothers them.

00:07:08.000 Again, he's a Democrat, but he's not just kind of an MSNBC.

00:07:12.000 He's more of a free thinker than not.

00:07:13.000 And he's moving in that direction.

00:07:15.000 And he is warning the bad guys, hey, this mass migration, mass invasion thing is a major problem.

00:07:23.000 Play cut 90.

00:07:24.000 Nestle have never spoken to as many people who are concerned about the migrant issue as I have, you know, over the past year.

00:07:33.000 They took 2,000 migrants and put them into school and made the schools stay home, made the students stay home and, you know, do school via Zoom. 0.99

00:07:44.000 And that was a big issue.

00:07:45.000 Like, I mean, people were calling the radio station.

00:07:47.000 That was just this week, you know, really, really, really complaining about that.

00:07:51.000 I've never seen, you know, working class people who I interact with every day until this past year really, really, really express their frustration.

00:08:00.000 Now, that's powerful stuff.

00:08:01.000 Let me contrast that because now it's all New York.

00:08:03.000 I want to contrast two stories in New York.

00:08:05.000 Charlemagne the God is New York-based.

00:08:06.000 He's definitely in touch with kind of the attitude of the sentiments.

00:08:11.000 If you know anything about his radio program, it's on early in the morning.

00:08:14.000 Very, very well listened to.

00:08:15.000 From what I understand, they'll kind of play music and then they'll talk and then they have guests and music.

00:08:20.000 It's very, very well respected.

00:08:22.000 And it's very, the media covers it like crazy and he goes viral all the time.

00:08:26.000 And, but contrast that, because Charlemagne the God is saying, like, look, I'm listening, and this is what I hear.

00:08:31.000 I'm listening.

00:08:32.000 No agenda.

00:08:32.000 This is what I hear.

00:08:34.000 The other New York senator or the other New York representative, Chuck Schumer, who doesn't care because he doesn't listen to the rank and file like Charlemagne the God does.

00:08:46.000 Listen to Chuck Yu Schumer, who says we must fund a foreign proxy war, despite the fact that there is a metaphorical genocide of young Ukrainian men happening in Ukraine.

00:09:00.000 We must fund it.

00:09:01.000 We must subsidize it.

00:09:02.000 We must underwrite it.

00:09:04.000 So here you have on one side Charlemagne the God saying that mass migration is the number one issue of the people of New York.

00:09:10.000 And the Democrat majority leader, Chuck Yu Schumer, says, no, Ukraine, Ukraine, Slava, Ukraanya.

00:09:19.000 Play Cut 8086.

00:09:22.000 The only way we will do border and Ukraine, or even either of them, is bipartisan.

00:09:29.000 You cannot, cannot do things with one party in a divided Congress.

00:09:35.000 And I think there was broad agreement in the room that we had to drew this in a bipartisan way.

00:09:40.000 Speaking in the Senate, we are making really good progress.

00:09:44.000 I am more optimistic now that we can come to an agreement on border and Ukraine in one package, along with aid to Israel, along with humanitarian aid for the Palestinians in Gaza, and along with helping us Indochina.

00:09:57.000 I just want to say, we need to really accelerate the push here.

00:10:02.000 It's the people versus the oligarchs.

00:10:04.000 The fact that Chuck Yu Schumer is even acknowledging that the border needs to be addressed is a major, major media win, and we should exploit that.

00:10:13.000 Chuck Schumer made a mistake, and he knows it.

00:10:15.000 The Democrats are most successful when they don't acknowledge reality.

00:10:19.000 They just say, oh, the border's not a problem.

00:10:20.000 It's not a problem.

00:10:21.000 He has just acknowledged that it's an issue.

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00:11:18.000 The immigration issue is the biggest one.

00:11:19.000 And I want to draw the line in the sand.

00:11:22.000 There are three major issues.

00:11:23.000 Traditional Republican consultants will tell you you can't win on immigration.

00:11:27.000 It is a Democrat advantage issue, and they could not be more mistaken.

00:11:32.000 Now, maybe amongst the open border Chamber of Commerce crowd of hotels that want to have unlimited amounts of cheap labor coming into the country or Walmart at the money desk where they want to have remittances, if you know what that word means, means that they're sending back billions of dollars a month of the Walmart money desk back to their native country.

00:11:51.000 Walmart loves open borders.

00:11:53.000 They depend on open borders.

00:11:55.000 Walmart is one of the great beneficiaries of the open border crisis in this country.

00:12:03.000 Just one example is the Walmart Money Desk, the Walmart currency money desk.

00:12:08.000 They set this up like a couple decades ago.

00:12:10.000 So if you're an illegal, you come into this country, you get your hands on some money, maybe you're a Chilean, Chilean thief and you go rob a couple homes, which is happening like crazy, or you're a Venezuelan thief and you get some cash and you want to send it back home, you go to the Walmart money desk, the Walmart currency desk.

00:12:25.000 And they'll take 2%, 3%, 5% to just send the money from Houston, Texas to Caracas or Houston, Texas to Santiago, Chile, or Houston, Texas to Caracas, Colombia, or whatever.

00:12:40.000 And they'll take a processing fee.

00:12:42.000 And for almost very little work, Walmart is printing money.

00:12:46.000 So make no mistake.

00:12:47.000 There are very powerful corporate interests that want this border open.

00:12:51.000 And that's just one example of many.

00:12:53.000 It's one example of many.

00:12:55.000 And so Republicans need to understand that this is a primary winning issue.

00:13:03.000 And Chuck Schumer is messing this up.

00:13:05.000 The fact that Chuck Schumer is trying to wrap all this other stuff together, he's making a strategic mistake, one that I would not expect out of him.

00:13:14.000 I hope Speaker Johnson takes this opportunity to call Chuck Yu Schumer's bluff.

00:13:24.000 Speaker Johnson has a great opportunity, and all the House Republicans have an opportunity to isolate the border crisis invasion, the great replacement happening on the southern border, to isolate that issue and say, all those other things we could do single subject bills on, Chuck Schumer.

00:13:41.000 You want to have Ukraine? 0.96

00:13:42.000 Let's do our own single subject on Ukraine.

00:13:44.000 You want to have Israel and you want to have humanitarian aid to help stamp out Hamas? 0.89

00:13:50.000 We can do single subject.

00:13:51.000 But the border, we're not going to loop into this other stuff.

00:13:54.000 And the reason why, again, this is the trick of D.C., the more things you loop into a bill, the harder it is for members of Congress to vote against it because there might be 5% of the bill that is really necessary.

00:14:08.000 And then if you vote against it, they'll run these ads and they'll say, you know, Congressman XYZ voted against aid to Israel, which is not totally true because it's only 5% of a 95% garbage bill. 0.96

00:14:21.000 Holding the border hostage for your nonsense is evil. 0.97

00:14:25.000 It's treason.

00:14:27.000 And this is the winning issue.

00:14:29.000 This is the line in the sand.

00:14:30.000 And I encourage Speaker Johnson, and again, Senator Lankford is just embarrassing himself.

00:14:36.000 When Chuck Yu Schumer does a press conference and he says, I think we're making great progress.

00:14:41.000 I think this is going to be bipartisan.

00:14:43.000 He is telling you that Senator Lankford is selling out the people of Oklahoma.

00:14:50.000 And so here's what I'd like to see from Speaker Johnson.

00:14:52.000 Here's what I'd like to see from Republicans.

00:14:55.000 They need to do a joint press conference today and say, our position is the government will be shut down Friday.

00:15:02.000 We have acted in good faith in November.

00:15:05.000 We acted in good faith back in June.

00:15:07.000 We've acted in good faith multiple times.

00:15:10.000 And you guys have not shown the reciprocity, the reciprocal amounts of good faith.

00:15:18.000 So we're done.

00:15:19.000 The border is the issue.

00:15:21.000 Chuck Schumer, this is your shutdown.

00:15:24.000 This is your shutdown, Joe Biden.

00:15:26.000 And guess what?

00:15:27.000 Public opinion polls agree with you.

00:15:29.000 They blame Joe Biden for what's happening on the southern border.

00:15:33.000 They blame Democrats what's happening on the southern border.

00:15:35.000 And make no mistake, what they consider to be a southern border solution is nothing more than more money for the Expedia Travel Agency so that illegals can get further into the interior.

00:15:47.000 Work permits, which is amnesty for the people that have broke our laws, broke our customs, and cut in line the border jumpers and the line cutters.

00:15:56.000 Polls show citizens want to end this invasion.

00:16:00.000 So as we articulate the three issues that we believe that can define the 2024 election that other people tend to ignore, this is a primary one.

00:16:10.000 It is a primary one across the board.

00:16:13.000 And what an opportunity.

00:16:14.000 I hope Republicans do not squander this opportunity.

00:16:17.000 You have to be willing to shut down the government.

00:16:20.000 If not, it then is no longer a negotiation.

00:16:26.000 It is a hostage situation.

00:16:28.000 Walk away from the table, Senator Lankford.

00:16:31.000 Walk away from the table, Speaker Johnson.

00:16:33.000 They are afraid of a lockdown.

00:16:36.000 At this point, the way that things are trending, the invasion is so out of control, Schumer and Biden will receive the blame for a shutdown.

00:16:46.000 Do it.

00:16:50.000 Traditional media is crumbling.

00:16:51.000 Why?

00:16:52.000 Because they're hiding something, something big.

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00:17:49.000 So what an opportunity right in front of House Republicans right now, right in front of us.

00:17:53.000 We have the Democrats that seem to be uneasy.

00:17:58.000 The fact that Chuck Yu Schumer is even mentioning the border is broadcasting to you.

00:18:06.000 They are telling you.

00:18:07.000 They are showing you.

00:18:07.000 They are demonstrating to you that they know this is becoming a political liability.

00:18:14.000 Now, mind you, we love the country more than we love our chances in the 2024 election.

00:18:20.000 If we were Democrats, we'd say, ah, keep the border wide open.

00:18:23.000 It will help us win the election.

00:18:24.000 No, we actually believe the border is such a clear and present danger to the homeland that we want the issue solved.

00:18:32.000 The politics aside, the Democrats, they want the border open because it politically helps them in the long term, in their belief.

00:18:41.000 The more third worlders, the more destabilization, the closer they can get towards socialized health care, property confiscation, voters that fit their mold. 1.00

00:18:51.000 The less white the country becomes, the more excited they become. 0.79

00:18:54.000 Don't take my word for it.

00:18:55.000 Read their literature.

00:18:57.000 See what they write.

00:18:59.000 See what they say openly.

00:19:00.000 Okay.

00:19:00.000 So the polls are overwhelming.

00:19:03.000 People want action.

00:19:05.000 They want action right now.

00:19:06.000 The Washington Post did a poll of Americans on a bunch of Trump's more controversial or unusual policy deals.

00:19:13.000 And it finds out that 60% of the public was on board, including a significant minority of Democrats.

00:19:21.000 When the issue set is actually presented, we see advantage Republicans.

00:19:28.000 Mass migration sets the table.

00:19:32.000 It is the first and necessary prerequisite for a political recalibration.

00:19:43.000 I want to play other pieces of tape here as we see this coming together.

00:19:47.000 Let's go to Cut 62.

00:19:51.000 Someone should print this out.

00:19:52.000 And by the way, Speaker Johnson, what a chance for redemption.

00:19:56.000 We've been really tough on you, Speaker Johnson.

00:19:58.000 I'm willing to put all that aside and say, if you can hit a home run here, I'll be your biggest fan.

00:20:03.000 Speaker Johnson, I am willing to see, really, if you hit a home run here, this program, this audience will forgive all of your missteps and your cowardice the last couple months and will say forward, onward.

00:20:15.000 Speaker Johnson's actually been talking a good game.

00:20:17.000 He went on Dylan Mulvaney's program on CNN.

00:20:19.000 Can you guys get that?

00:20:20.000 And Dylan Mulvaney was asking all these questions and Speaker Johnson said the right thing.

00:20:23.000 He was excellent.

00:20:24.000 And I hope his actions are as consistent with his words.

00:20:28.000 Also, yesterday, this is a show vote.

00:20:30.000 It's a show vote.

00:20:31.000 But do you know that I believe it was 16 or maybe 18 Democrats voted to rebuke Joe Biden's handling of the border?

00:20:39.000 This is crossing party lines.

00:20:41.000 You rarely see an issue like this.

00:20:43.000 Rarely.

00:20:44.000 Now, instead of exploiting a political issue like Democrats, let's solve it.

00:20:47.000 Let's use our political power to solve a clear and present danger to the American homeland.

00:20:52.000 Play Cut 62.

00:20:54.000 Another area where Biden is struggling to break through, immigration, a critical issue for voters.

00:20:59.000 Our polling shows just 18% of Americans approve of Biden's handling of the issue.

00:21:05.000 Only 18% of Americans approve of Joe Biden's handling of the border.

00:21:10.000 18%.

00:21:12.000 This is an 82% losing issue for the Democrats.

00:21:18.000 Chuck Schumer knows this.

00:21:19.000 So Chuck Schumer's trying to get his Ukraine thing together.

00:21:22.000 He's trying to make this a bipartisan.

00:21:23.000 Oh, Republicans, they are signaling to you that for the first time of this congressional session, they are nervous and they know advantage Republicans, advantage Republicans.

00:21:35.000 There's the piece of tape here.

00:21:36.000 We'll get this.

00:21:37.000 So Speaker Johnson told Dylan Mulvaney, my position is clear.

00:21:40.000 Any bill that does not solve the problem and secure the border is not acceptable to the House.

00:21:45.000 Good, Speaker Johnson.

00:21:46.000 Speaker Johnson said this to the great Laura Ingram.

00:21:49.000 I told President Biden, it's on you.

00:21:50.000 Your policies created the border crisis.

00:21:52.000 Your executive action can end it.

00:21:53.000 House Republicans will continue to demand transformative policy change and hold this administration accountable until the border is secure.

00:22:02.000 You got to go one step further though, Speaker Johnson.

00:22:04.000 You got to go one step further.

00:22:05.000 You have to say, this is a crisis.

00:22:07.000 It's a national emergency and a shutdown is probably going to happen.

00:22:11.000 We don't like it.

00:22:12.000 But here's the one thing that I will give Speaker Johnson, not credit for, but to use a mistake to your advantage.

00:22:18.000 You always, every day you wake up, say, boy, if I made a mistake, how can I make it?

00:22:23.000 How can I make my life better?

00:22:24.000 How can I use it to my advantage?

00:22:25.000 So, for example, we hit Speaker Johnson super hard on all these continuing resolutions, on all this.

00:22:32.000 Speaker Johnson has an opportunity for the moral high ground with the media.

00:22:36.000 Speaker Johnson has the opportunity to say, hey, we did all of these measures in Thanksgiving.

00:22:41.000 We did all these measures in Christmas under this idea that Democrats, in good faith, we're going to negotiate.

00:22:45.000 We're done.

00:22:46.000 And Speaker Johnson can go into the media and say, when I took over the speakership in the fall, you know, I was trying to get my feet underneath me.

00:22:53.000 We did some CRs and the Democrats lied and the Democrats lied.

00:22:55.000 We're done.

00:22:56.000 We are shutting down the border.

00:22:58.000 This is a rare opportunity where a shutdown could actually make Republicans more popular because the Democrats will look like the open border obstructionists that they are.

00:23:06.000 And understand, the Democrats are so connected to the open border agenda.

00:23:11.000 It is critical.

00:23:12.000 It is a religious fascination to them that you can break the back of the Democrats' narrative by playing hardball on this.

00:23:21.000 And my advice to Republicans is do not take a 2% win or a 10% win.

00:23:27.000 Oh, only 5,000 people coming across the border.

00:23:30.000 No, no, no, no.

00:23:31.000 You have to draw the line.

00:23:33.000 Treat this like a real war type issue.

00:23:38.000 Treat this as if the Biden administration is refusing to fight a war.

00:23:42.000 Increase the rhetoric.

00:23:43.000 Increase, they are signaling to you that they don't like this issue.

00:23:47.000 The polls show it.

00:23:48.000 Their narrative shows that they've got this lunatic in Congress saying that Republicans want to take down the Statue of Liberty.

00:23:54.000 What cut is that?

00:23:56.000 Their messaging is all over the place.

00:23:58.000 When the Democrats are fumbling like this, when the Democrats are shaking and are over the place, this is where we must seize.

00:24:06.000 And Speaker Johnson messed up all this other previous CR should have worked through Thanksgiving and Christmas, but now he has a moral high ground.

00:24:14.000 And you have to shut it down.

00:24:15.000 No more CRs, guys.

00:24:16.000 No more CRs.

00:24:17.000 Shut it down.

00:24:18.000 You had 16 Democrats the other day rebuke in a show vote saying they don't like Joe Biden's handling of the invasion.

00:24:25.000 This is hitting suburban communities.

00:24:27.000 This is hitting urban communities.

00:24:29.000 There are very few members of Congress right now, very few that are not feeling heat over the invasion of the southern border.

00:24:38.000 And that ties into another issue.

00:24:40.000 The first one is mass migration.

00:24:42.000 I spent obviously a good amount of time on that.

00:24:44.000 The second one that I want to zone in, zero in on here, which is super important, is affirmative action.

00:24:49.000 Democrats continuing on this open border agenda while also simultaneously saying that we want to try to no longer be a country of excellence, no longer build a country based on merit, no longer build a country based on the core ideas and not have everybody be race obsessed is not popular.

00:25:12.000 In fact, a new poll came out yesterday.

00:25:14.000 It's extraordinary.

00:25:15.000 A new poll came out yesterday that shows that over 68% of the country is against affirmative action.

00:25:23.000 68% of the country is against race discrimination.

00:25:27.000 This is amazing.

00:25:29.000 So the Democrats are now going all in on two and soon to be three of the core issues of 2024 where they are super enthusiastic about it and the people are way on the other side of the issue.

00:25:40.000 Immigration being one. 0.95

00:25:41.000 The second of which is racial preferential treatment, including corporate America.

00:25:47.000 And the one that has been going viral lately that we haven't really talked about is the CEO of United Airlines saying that we care about diversity.

00:25:57.000 This is how we should handle it.

00:25:59.000 The great Rob Schneider, who was super generous coming to America Fest, we must mock them.

00:26:05.000 We must make fun of them.

00:26:07.000 Democrats are getting nervous because when you start to become the subject of late night comedy, that's usually TERF Democrats own.

00:26:15.000 Play Cut 94.

00:26:17.000 The CEO of United Airlines last month, the CEO, he announced of all the hiring for all the new pilots that are coming up this year, all the hiring for the new pilots, the main focus is going to be diversity.

00:26:31.000 What?

00:26:34.000 Diversity?

00:26:36.000 Not the best pilots you can find?

00:26:40.000 The ones with the most hours of experience.

00:26:51.000 No diversity. 0.97

00:26:53.000 I don't know, Bobby, but I'm sick and tired of flying all the time with these white pilots landing safely and on time. 1.00

00:27:01.000 Boring.

00:27:04.000 10 out of 10, 68% of Americans agree with Rob Schneider.

00:27:07.000 It's soon to be 70%, 75%.

00:27:12.000 The third issue is the trans issue.

00:27:14.000 We're not going to have a ton of time on this, but the Democrats have gone all in because of special interests and because of ideology on open borders, DEI, and chemical castration of children.

00:27:26.000 Republican consultants, because they're afraid of being called bad names by the media, are typically afraid of these three issues.

00:27:34.000 So I get asked all the time, Charlie, how do we counter the abortion fanaticism of the left?

00:27:39.000 That's an issue.

00:27:39.000 I'm 100% pro-life.

00:27:40.000 We have to figure that out.

00:27:41.000 We have to navigate it.

00:27:43.000 But what if we play offense on three issues that make it so that people aren't just voting on abortion?

00:27:50.000 Open borders, diversity, equity, inclusion. 1.00

00:27:55.000 DEI must, DIE must die. 0.99

00:27:58.000 And trans surgeries of kids, they are issues that make the Democrats shake like a leaf. 1.00

00:28:05.000 They can't talk about it.

00:28:07.000 They will just call you names.

00:28:08.000 They can't defend it.

00:28:09.000 It is indefensible because all three of those are where abstract academic developed ideology is over reality.

00:28:18.000 All three of those issues.

00:28:20.000 And they come from different traditions.

00:28:21.000 Open borders is the death of nationalism and borders and self-government, and they want to obliterate Western civilization.

00:28:28.000 DEI comes from critical theory and anti-white, anti-colonialist, anti-Western sentiments, and they kind of play parlay with each other.

00:28:35.000 The chemical castration one is all about the removal of sexual innocence of children.

00:28:39.000 It comes from John Money and Kinsey and these very, very bad people in the 20th century that talked about how kids have no sexual innocence and we must get rid of this idea that kids are not sexual beings.

00:28:51.000 And Kinsey talked about this at length and he's honored at Indiana University.

00:28:55.000 These are not popular with mainstream people.

00:28:57.000 They're not at all.

00:28:58.000 And the Democrats are afraid that if Republicans run on those three issues, amongst other things, you can talk about the abort.

00:29:04.000 Inflation is a huge issue and that's fine.

00:29:06.000 Run on those.

00:29:07.000 But these three issues can build consensus.

00:29:11.000 Because one issue is probably not enough to overcome the abortion issue.

00:29:14.000 But all of a sudden, if you say, hey, vote Republican and we're going to close your border and stop the invasion.

00:29:19.000 Vote Republican and we're going to restore merit.

00:29:22.000 Vote Republican and we'll make sure that your 15-year-old can't be medically kidnapped from you and have their parts chopped off from you, from them.

00:29:30.000 Vote Republican and we'll protect your children from creeps.

00:29:33.000 What I'm getting at is the issues set in front of us in 2024, in addition to law fair and all this other stuff that Trump is so good at talking about, is advantage Republicans.

00:29:42.000 Crime ties into this too, though.

00:29:44.000 You might say, you know, crime, how does that work?

00:29:46.000 Well, think about it.

00:29:47.000 Open borders. 1.00

00:29:48.000 You get the Venezuelan thieves and the Chilean thieves and the gang rapists that we're seeing and all that. 0.99

00:29:53.000 But also, DEI is directly correlated with letting criminals out the next day and not prosecuting black criminals. 0.99

00:30:04.000 Look, politics needs to be viewed like a military campaign.

00:30:07.000 Pick the terrain that favors you and attack your enemy where they are weak.

00:30:12.000 And if we just listen to Karl Rove on TV, oh, well, you know, Donald Trump should just run on non-controversial issues like tax cuts and regulatory cuts.

00:30:20.000 I don't think we should ignore the economy.

00:30:22.000 It's a real thing.

00:30:23.000 People are suffering.

00:30:23.000 Prices are going up.

00:30:25.000 But there are other issues that factor in that are building our coalition.

00:30:29.000 And Charlemagne, the whatever, from New York, agrees with you.

00:30:34.000 He says, I've never heard so much chatter and rancor over the immigration issue ever.

00:30:38.000 And we're starting to see the same with DEI.

00:30:41.000 DEI is turning off rank and file traditional college-educated voters.

00:30:45.000 They say, I don't know, this doesn't feel right.

00:30:47.000 When, I mean, the Babylon B, they just, they deserve a gold medal for this. 1.00

00:30:51.000 I love it.

00:30:52.000 Babylon B came out with an article.

00:30:54.000 United Airlines hires blind pilot because diversity.

00:30:59.000 Blind pilot.

00:31:01.000 Hey, diversity is our strength, right?

00:31:03.000 You know that the FAA says that we must have people that I want to make sure that like learning disabilities as flight controllers, learning disabilities.

00:31:13.000 I think it doesn't take a lot of explanation.

00:31:15.000 You see where this is headed.

00:31:17.000 If you have to go into surgery and the surgeon comes in and it's a black lesbian and you're respectful, hey, you know, what's your experience?

00:31:24.000 Honestly, I'm still, I have no idea.

00:31:28.000 But diversity is our strength.

00:31:31.000 Let's put you under anesthesia.

00:31:34.000 I think I know what that is.

00:31:36.000 The DEI agenda is terrifying people, and it should terrify you.

00:31:39.000 They don't care if people die.

00:31:40.000 They don't care if planes fall out of the air.

00:31:42.000 They don't care about any of that.

00:31:43.000 That's where it leads.

00:31:44.000 You cannot have the coexistence of excellence and the cult of diversity.

00:31:49.000 You can't.

00:31:50.000 It's impossible.

00:31:51.000 You cannot have equity, inclusion, and all that.

00:31:53.000 And it ties in with the border.

00:31:55.000 So what I'm getting at is that Republicans, you've been given a gift.

00:31:58.000 You've been given a gift of the overreach of the ideological Democrats, but it requires you to shed the muscle memory and to ignore the Republican consultants that live in D.C. that don't actually talk to the heartland of the country.

00:32:12.000 If you oppose the invasion, if you oppose DEI and want merit, and you oppose that children should have their breasts cut off because they say they have a different gender, you will be surprisingly successful politically and build a coalition that can win for generations to come.

00:32:31.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:32:32.000 Email us as alwaysfreedom at charliekirk.com.

00:32:35.000 Thanks so much for listening.

00:32:36.000 God bless.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - January 18, 2024

The Three Issues Republicans Must Own

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