00:00:53.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:28.000I was involved in some local efforts in the suburbs of Chicago.
00:01:34.000And I saw the generation that I was raised in, millennials, the Obama generation, it was supposed to be the most liberal generation in history, embracing ideas of Marxism, what would soon eventually materialize in critical race theory, what we now call wokeism.
00:02:17.000And Turning Point USA was birthed into existence.
00:02:21.000Bill Montgomery, may he rest in peace, was a relentless cheerleader for our efforts.
00:02:27.000Foster Freeze, may he also rest in peace, which actually two years ago was his funeral, wrote us our first check, and we were off to the races, traveling the country, trying to convince people that this Obama generation, millennials, did not have to be the most liberal generation in American history.
00:02:44.000We were scoffed at, laughed at, told that the work was already being done by traditional DC groups.
00:02:49.000Just tell them to go join a drinking club, is what we were told.
00:02:53.000We were told by several kind of snobbish, entitled people in the center-right world and the conservative world that this is impossible.
00:03:02.000There's no way you can rally young people around these ideas.
00:03:18.000Over the course of 2013, 14, 15, crisscrossing the country, spending 330 days on the road routinely, visiting every single state you could imagine, speaking at tea party meetings and Republican meetings and just trying to raise and grow support.
00:03:34.000Tyler Boyer, who was just on Steve Bannon's program, joined our team in January of 2015.
00:03:40.000He's been with us for eight years now, brought a wrinkle of expertise and accelerant to our growth to operationalize our chapter program and to grow West and to help us with student leadership.
00:03:53.000And we were starting to attract talent, but boy, the attacks were relentless.
00:03:57.000And the attacks, not just from the left, that came later.
00:03:59.000The attacks from the people in Washington, D.C. that were allegedly in the conservative world, that were a little bit uneasy, that there was this disruptor, that there was this entrepreneurial approach to an otherwise very boring nonprofit arena with really high standards that was willing to shoot from the hip and try new things and to take risks and to be bold and to say, you know what?
00:04:24.000This generation does not have to be the most liberal generation in history.
00:04:29.000And we went to work and we went to work and we kept on traveling and we kept on trying to grow support.
00:04:35.000And the Lord blessed us beyond our wildest imagination.
00:05:27.000And the left-wing activist press, they now all of a sudden realize that because we've worked our tail off, because we've rejected the Washington, D.C. way of doing things, just sit on your hands, complain about it, raise more money, lie to you guys about what's going on.
00:05:42.000No, no, no, we are clipboard and tennis shoes.
00:05:50.000Our entire team, and Lauren and Amy, and I could go through the whole list, Andrew, they got into this because we felt like our republic was falling apart.
00:06:00.000We're headquartered in Arizona, not D.C., and we keep on building and we keep on building.
00:06:07.000Well, over 1,500 to 1,600 chartered chapters across the country.
00:07:04.000You have to do what you are called to do.
00:07:06.000And for us at Turning Point USA and our team, we were called to drop everything, put our lives basically aside and say, for 11 years, we are going to give everything we possibly can.
00:07:17.000And look at the beautiful thing we have built.
00:07:20.000We have over 250,000 grassroots donors, over 500,000 volunteers and millions of fans on digital and social media.
00:07:30.000Now, you might say, Charlie, that's all fine, but what can you show me that actually shows you made a difference?
00:07:35.000Most DC groups are never challenged like that because they cower away and they do insider deals with lobbyists and they don't work hard.
00:07:45.000At 4 p.m., we're just getting our work started at Turning Point USA.
00:07:48.000The New York Times shows the work of the Turning Point model, the education model of Turning Point USA, the Turning Point Action Social Advocacy Model.
00:08:00.000New York Times, millennials are not an exception.
00:08:22.000I wrote a whole book about not going to college.
00:08:24.000But more importantly, have we been able to say, hey, was the 11 years well spent?
00:08:32.000And I could say with an immense amount of gratitude that not only did we make a difference, the New York Times is freaking out that millennials, the Obama generation, you could call it Project Millennials, is far less liberal.
00:08:48.000In fact, it's almost 50-50 conservative and liberal worldview.
00:08:52.000And by the way, at Turning Point USA, our focus is always on education.
00:09:29.000Turning Point has played a big role in turning the Obama generation that was supposed to be the most liberal generation in history to be about 50-50.
00:09:45.000I am overwhelmed with gratitude and motivation to keep on fighting on this now 11th birthday of the largest conservative organization in the country, Turning Point USA.
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00:11:12.000Okay, I want to play a piece of tape here.
00:11:13.000I want to talk about this barricade that's being built.
00:11:15.000We'll talk more about the Turning Point USA birthday later.
00:11:18.000And I'm going to tell you a story that has never been made public about the logo of Turning Point USA and remembering the whole story behind that.
00:12:21.000It is in the best interest of America.
00:12:23.000It's in the best interest of our national security for Ukraine to win.
00:12:27.000Is it in the best interest of our national security while we're being invaded every single day?
00:12:32.000It was illuminating to watch Nikki Haley in this town hall because she is representing a Republican Party that is totally out of lockstep with you, the voters.
00:12:42.000But there's Nikki Haley, you have Asa Hutchinson, you got Chris Christie who's going to run.
00:12:47.000Mike Pence this last weekend spoke at some sort of an Iowa event riding as Harley Davidson.
00:12:55.000You got Doug Bergham who's going to announce what exactly is going on here.
00:12:59.000Well, it's easy to believe that they kind of sense that Ron DeSantis did not have as strong of a launch.
00:13:06.000Ron DeSantis announced that he had 40,000 donors since his launch in May.
00:13:13.000Now, that might sound like a lot, but I actually would have expected somewhere between 200, 250,000, giving all the lead up, all the preparation, all the national media.
00:13:23.000As someone who works very, very hard to try and expand a donor base, 40,000 is underwhelming.
00:13:32.000At Turning Point USA and Turning Point Action, we have about 260,000 donors.
00:13:37.000Now, it took a lot of work to get there, but we're also not running for the presidency.
00:13:40.000And we also are not governor of one of the largest states in the country.
00:13:44.000And so Ron DeSantis will increase that donor total.
00:13:47.000But by comparison, Donald Trump has had well over 1.6 million people give him grassroots donations.
00:13:57.000So it could be that Nikki Haley and Tim Scott and Asa Hutchinson and all these people, they sense an opportunity, or this is what I think is more likely that is really most people are missing.
00:14:12.000That they're running with the understanding that they have to do whatever they can to build a barricade to prevent Donald Trump from easily winning the nomination.
00:14:30.000We are seeing the building right now of a dark money, outside money, super PAC-driven blockade to try and damage and injure Donald Trump going into the general election.
00:14:44.000Throw as much money as possible at the leader, have Haley, Scott, Christie, Pence.
00:14:51.000Yeah, they might insult each other here or there, but they're going to keep the main target as Donald Trump.
00:14:57.000Do not be surprised if the donors Donors that are funding some of these campaigns begin to demand via the super PACs a harmonization that, yeah, they might have their own little flavor of Chris Christie, own little flavor of Tim Scott, own little flavor of whomever, but do not be surprised if there isn't a deliberate attempt soon in the next five or six months to throw all of that ad spending, to throw all of that money against Donald Trump.
00:15:25.000What you are seeing, and this is going to happen, is a minimum $1 billion barricade that Donald Trump is going to have to run through before he goes to the general election to run up against either Joe Biden or Kamala Harris or John Fetterman or whoever the Mark Elias George Soros machine appoints to be the vessel for their operation.
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00:17:53.000Is now threatening the dollar as the global world reserve currency.
00:17:57.000Do you know that the BRIC nations in St. Petersburg in the coming weeks are going to be talking about removing the dollar and putting in a gold standard because of our overinvolvement in eastern Ukraine?
00:18:18.000Is there some sort of interest behind Nikki Haley that is pushing this?
00:18:21.000Is there some donor community that really wants a hot war in Ukraine or Russia?
00:18:29.000How about the community of people that are being overrun by fentanyl and drug addiction and human smuggling and illegals taking jobs and overflowing our communities of 10 to 15,000 a day?
00:18:40.000And of course, CNN does what the intel agencies want them to do.
00:18:43.000Ask the question of Nikki Haley on Ukraine.
00:19:13.000We have a corporate oligarchy that is quickly setting in.
00:19:16.000We have this trans tyranny that is running the entire country.
00:19:19.000And I have to be worried about Ukraine and Russia's borders.
00:19:23.000Meanwhile, that involvement, the cause set in motion that that has caused, that that has triggered, very well might result in the dollar being lost as the World Reserve currency status.
00:20:51.000Iowa's the place that we shape principled conservative leadership.
00:20:54.000Iowa's the place that's shaped the standard bearer of this party.
00:20:57.000And I don't have anything to announce today, but I can tell you, when I got time to announce, come this Wednesday, I'm announcing in Iowa.
00:21:06.000So Mike Pence is going to run for the presidency.
00:21:09.000And his voice sounds a little bit different, but that's a separate issue.
00:21:13.000There's building right now, and this is the buried lead, because it looks as if it seems as if Haley and Scott and Asa and Christie and Pence and Bergham are all on different pages.
00:21:26.000It seems as if that they're all just kind of running against each other.
00:21:28.000What if there's actually more harmonization to their efforts than meets the eye?
00:21:36.000What if the anti-Trump bloc is going to be dispersed into multiple super PACs with all a very similar mission?
00:21:46.000The eventual endorsement of an opposition candidate to Donald Trump and the nonstop blitzkrieg of money being spent against Trump in Iowa, in South Carolina.
00:21:58.000Now, this very well could all help Trump, but is it macro helpful to have to have Donald Trump overcome a $1 billion barricade?
00:22:09.000You know, we're talking at turning point action, building a ballot chasing operation and voter registration operation on the front lines to help us make a deciding marginal impact in Wisconsin, Arizona, and Georgia.
00:22:27.000But $1 billion to now be spent on this?
00:22:32.000You see, this blockade that is rising up is just trying to weaken and damage Trump.
00:22:38.000Now, you might say, well, this makes him stronger.
00:22:40.000Yes, but it's going to make him overly focused, Donald Trump, on the primary.
00:22:47.000You want to go through a $1 billion primary?
00:22:50.000This would be a dream for a Democrat operative.
00:24:24.000I guarantee you, because I've talked to some people over the weekend and I got enough information to say this with certainty, that these Republican donors that might say, okay, I like Tim Scott, I like this guy, I like that guy, even I like DeSantis, eventually they are going to coordinate their efforts from the outside via super PACs, which you can do, and focus 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700,
00:24:48.000800 million dollars on defeating Donald Trump.
00:24:55.000This is largely a vanity project that is being driven by consultants that are going to make tens of millions of dollars off of this whole thing so that we can then have the exact same result.
00:25:05.000Now, I actually think it's helpful to talk about how far the Republican Party has moved for the better and Nikki Haley is going about talking about recolonizing eastern Ukraine while our own country is collapsing.
00:25:17.000I think it's helpful to point that out and make fun of it and call it silly.
00:25:21.000At the same time, this is destructive.
00:25:24.000We are headed towards an apocalyptic scenario politically.
00:25:29.000While the early infrastructure investments are not being done, let me tell you right now, in Arizona, it is not being done.
00:25:38.000We're doing our best at turning point action.
00:25:40.000But all the attention, all the focus is on this horse race, this barricade, this $1 billion barricade that Donald Trump will pierce through, but it's going to take more effort, more energy, more fight than should be necessary,
00:25:55.000is again a humongous vanity project, which brings just unconscionable profits to the consultant class, while our country is on fragile footing.
00:26:11.000That's really what's going on here, is that they're going to see which one ascends, but they're going to focus their money, their outside PAC money, which is just, you might as well burn it.
00:26:23.000They are registering voters in Arizona.
00:26:26.000They're suing with lawfare in Georgia.
00:26:29.000They're hiring grassroots warriors in Wisconsin.
00:26:31.000We're about to spend money on who gets to finish fifth in Iowa.
00:26:35.000Democrats are spending money on things that will materially and in a guaranteed fashion get them another four years in the White House in 2024.
00:27:07.000James Comey, who of course still has friends in the FBI and is still really well respected amongst the cockroaches that run that agency, he's telling you right now, the fix is going to be in again.
00:27:17.000They're going to do more threatening tabletop exercises, Aspen Institute meetings.
00:27:21.000They're going to go to whatever Twitter might not take the meeting, Elon, but there's a lot happening.
00:27:26.000There's like a deep state of Twitter, too, that Elon either knows about, doesn't want to address, is afraid of, or is unaware of.
00:27:32.000That is a mystery, and we could build that out because the whole Daily Wire situation shows that Elon's not exactly running Twitter.
00:28:19.000The first solution to get through the barricade is we have to invest in Georgia, Arizona, Wisconsin now.
00:28:25.000We're trying to do that turning point action.
00:28:27.000The second solution is we have to demand that these other candidates are not taken seriously, that they are debunked, and that they are called out as trying to make Donald Trump become the nominee harder.
00:28:37.000And it damages and injures our chance of winning in 2024.
00:28:44.000Yeah, and James Comey saying committed to the rule of law is the greatest of all Orwellian statements.
00:29:44.000And Paul was convinced that his life really meant nothing and is an unbelievable, unspeakable tragedy.
00:29:51.000Paul was always the kind of creative, artistic driving force of Turning Point USA.
00:29:58.000And so much of the design and the logo and the art that you see come out of Turning Point USA was driven by Paul.
00:30:05.000But Paul was convinced by a lie that his life had no meaning and that what he was doing made no difference.
00:30:15.000So 11 years later, we're celebrating a birthday, but I'm also remembering Paul's impact.
00:30:19.000And also, if this message impacts one person in this audience, then it's a segment worth doing, which is, yes, you are making a difference.
00:30:29.000But if Paul could have just saw the hundreds of people that were queued outside of his funeral home, the impact 11 years later, the logo has now actually become a reality.
00:30:43.000New York Times, millennials are not an exception.
00:31:03.000Paul made a tragic mistake to end his life, but his legacy lives on.
00:31:08.000And for those of you that might say, oh, there is no point in continuing and all that, I hope that you stop short and you recognize and hear my story closely because there is.
00:31:18.000There's a beautiful life that waits ahead of you.
00:31:20.000And for Paul and for Bill Montgomery and Foster Freeze and the people that are no longer here, the legacy of Turning Point USA lives on.
00:31:30.000In fact, on this 11th birthday, our work is just beginning.