00:00:00.000Hey everybody, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.
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00:00:16.000We're talking about the new polling from McLaughlin that has Trump up big.
00:00:21.000Now, is it an outlier or is the trend suggesting that this is actually close to the truth?
00:01:18.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:42.000Well, it's actually McLaughlin, but the Newsmax is the headline.
00:01:46.000McLaughlin poll, Trump beats Biden in electoral landslide.
00:01:50.000After George's indictment of Donald Trump, our new national poll shows he is not only beating Biden, but he would defeat the current president in an electoral landslide.
00:02:00.000The McLaughlin National Survey finds Trump leads Biden 47 to 43, up two points this month alone.
00:02:10.000So here's what's really interesting about this.
00:02:13.000Now, I brought this up with producer Blake, and he is, for those of you who know him or have seen him on this show, he's a contrarian.
00:02:22.000And I said, Blake, this poll is probably completely garbage.
00:02:26.000And yeah, he had some critiques of it, but he was like, actually, you know, the national polls lately have been looking really solid for Trump.
00:02:32.000Now, I'm not saying this isn't an outlier, but this is one of the few indications that we have post-Georgia indictment, post-mugshot that went mega viral, post-Trump-Tucker interview that broke the internet.
00:02:48.000That this is one of the few indications that we have of a national level.
00:02:51.000But what's more, and perhaps what's most important, is the key battleground states and how those are broken down in this poll.
00:02:58.000So if you just look at key battleground states, we're talking Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona, Georgia.
00:04:04.000Tyler Boyer, who comes on the show a lot, is the COO, doing a phenomenal job running that, raising funds to chase votes all across the country.
00:04:13.000Some of you might remember our three key states are Georgia, Wisconsin, Arizona.
00:04:18.000We think that the entire election pivots on those.
00:04:21.000Now, so I have some good news and I have some bad news.
00:04:25.000First is a fairly telling sign, right?
00:04:29.000Georgia, Trump is still the favorite in Georgia.
00:04:33.000And I think we have a graphic for that.
00:04:35.000Trump is still a favorite in Georgia by a mile in the primary in Georgia, despite the Fulton County indictment for which he just pled not guilty this morning.
00:04:48.000So this is, and this is from the AGC, the Atlanta Journal Constitution of the University of Georgia.
00:04:54.000For those who don't know, the AGJC is a complete communist rag.
00:04:59.000We're not going to get any favorable polling.
00:05:00.000They're not going to be tilting it in our favor.
00:05:36.000We don't really know how Wisconsin is going to go, but turning point action, we've already pledged $5 million to the state of Wisconsin and chasing ballots.
00:05:44.000But we can see signs of this shift in those battleground states and elsewhere.
00:06:40.000We don't have new polling from Wisconsin, but we're seeing in the landscape that the Trump mugshot, the indictment in Fulton County, this parallel weaponization of the DOJ is having a profound impact on the psyche of the country.
00:09:54.000You would think conventional wisdom, and perhaps this is what led the Democrats to pursue this policy, which is absolutely coordinated, a vast left-wing conspiracy to indict the president.
00:10:17.000We had that clip from Newt Gingrich on this show talking about how DC called Fannie Willis, rushed her to indict Trump to cover up for the Weiss screw-up.
00:10:28.000And you would think that all of this, and maybe this is the conventional wisdom driving the Democrats, that Biden would be peaking and Trump would be collapsing.
00:12:33.000But the truth is, is that these have absolutely this shows that the mugshot seen around the world has absolutely backfired on the Biden administration.
00:12:44.000This has backfired on the Democrats' vast left-wing conspiracy to get Trump.
00:14:27.000And we still haven't even seen a lot of polling from those states post-indictment, but McLaughlin sort of shows that the trend is our friend, as you said.
00:14:36.000Now, one of these conspiracies against Trump is this 14th Amendment.
00:14:41.000And I really want to dive into this with you because, you know, you sent me this on a text.
00:15:15.000And President Trump waived his arraignment down in Fulton County, Georgia with Fannie Willis with her bogus racketeering indictment against him.
00:15:27.000The arraignments where you bring the defendant in and the judge makes sure that the defendant understands the charges against him, how much jail time he faces, make sure that he has an attorney.
00:15:43.000Fanny Willis, who's a total buffoon, is going to try to have her trial before the election like the rest of these Democrat prosecutors with their election interference.
00:15:53.000We have, you know, this is lawfare on many different fronts.
00:15:57.000We have Alvin Bragg charging President Trump for the non-crime of settling a nuisance claim.
00:16:03.000Somehow that turned into a campaign finance violation.
00:16:09.000Then we have Jack Smith charging President Trump for the non-crime of a former president having his presidential records, which is allowed by the Presidential Records Act.
00:16:19.000Then we have Jack Smith and now Fannie Willis charging President Trump for the non-crime of objecting to a presidential election, which is allowed by the Electoral Count Act of 1887, twisting arms politically as allowed by the First Amendment.
00:16:32.000We have New York Attorney General Tish James bringing a civil fraud lawsuit against Trump for the non-fraud of a businessman paying back sophisticated Wall Street banks in full with interest.
00:16:43.000You have Gene Carroll bring in a lawsuit.
00:16:46.000All these Democrat operatives, Democrat politicians fear they cannot beat President Trump on November 5th, 2024.
00:16:53.000And as you just discussed, Andrew, they should fear that because President Trump is going to beat Biden like a drum.
00:16:59.000They tried to take out President Trump with two impeachments, four indictments, several lawsuits.
00:17:07.000He's becoming a legend bigger than life, and they can't take him out.
00:17:12.000So the next play that they're trying to do is what you talked about, which is disqualification under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which is just an absurd legal theory.
00:17:25.000During this, after the Civil War, the Republic almost fell apart.
00:17:31.000You had the Confederate rebellion, insurrectionists trying to go to war against the Union.
00:17:37.000And after the Civil War, what was happening is you had these Confederate sympathizers, including Confederate soldiers, who were getting elected to office, including the House of Representatives.
00:17:48.000And so as part of the Civil War amendments, the 13th Amendment to outlaw slavery, the 14th Amendment, and the 15th Amendment to provide due process and equal rights to the freed slaves, they passed Section 3, which disqualified these Confederate sympathizers from holding office if they took up arms against the United States, insurrection or rebellion.
00:18:12.000But under Section 5 of the 14th Amendment, these are not self-executing provisions.
00:18:18.000Under Section 5, the Congress has to pass a statute, a criminal statute.
00:18:25.000So you have evidence and a trial with a judge and a jury, and it's subject to appeal before you can disqualify someone from federal office under Section 3.
00:18:36.000So Congress has passed the statute and the Rebellion and Insurrection Statute, and that's on the books.
00:18:45.000They're not charging President Trump with rebellion or insurrection under the statute.
00:18:49.000So you can't disqualify him unless you charge him under that federal criminal statute.
00:18:54.000And you can't just have some Yahoo Secretary of State somewhere just unilaterally decide, hey, we're in a swing state like New Hampshire.
00:19:02.000We're just going to take President Trump off the ballot so Biden wins by default.
00:19:07.000So let's, yeah, and you're going into the guts of this article.
00:19:13.000Professor Michael McConnell responding about the 14th Amendment insurrection and Trump.
00:19:18.000He says, we must not forget that we are talking about empowering partisan politicians, such as state secretaries of state, to disqualify their political opponents from the ballot, depriving voters of the ability to elect candidates of their choice if abused.
00:19:36.000Now, this is similar to what we've heard from Alan Dershowitz.
00:19:40.000He said that this is basically the end of democracy as we know it if these laws or if this legal theory rather is pursued in any real form.
00:19:49.000Now, we heard about California's considering doing this.
00:20:32.000So this is not some Trump shill putting out this theory to debunk this bogus theory by the Democrats.
00:20:39.000This is a very well-respected former federal circuit judge and Stanford law professor who's putting out serious academic research, put out serious opinions on the 10th Circuit.
00:20:53.000And there's one case that we've only had one case that addressed this provision of the 14th Amendment, and it was more than 150 years ago.
00:21:03.000And it's the controlling case on point that validates what Judge, well, I guess Professor McConnell is saying now, which is that under the 14th Amendment, it's not self-executing.
00:21:15.000You can't just say, okay, well, we think that Donald Trump incited an insurrection, and so therefore we're going to take him off the ballot in New Hampshire or Michigan or one of these other states that could decide the election.
00:21:28.000Again, you have to charge President Trump with insurrection or rebellion under a specific federal criminal statute that was specifically passed to implement Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.
00:21:44.000It was passed by Congress pursuant to their power under Section 5 of the 14th Amendment.
00:21:50.000So Section 5 essentially defangs this from being a unilateral move by partisan actors in various states.
00:21:58.000Is that essentially the assertion here by McConnell and yourself?
00:22:05.000Yeah, I mean, it's, yeah, that you can't just have someone unilaterally say that there's an insurrection or a rebellion and we're going to take someone off the ballot.
00:22:12.000Frankly, if you look at Fannie Willis's racketeering theory down in Georgia, which is a bogus theory, but if Democrats want to use that theory, I would say to a Republican attorney general or a Republican DA, if Democrats pursue this disqualification theory under the 14th Amendment, I think that a Republican Attorney General or Republican DA should charge them with racketeering.
00:22:35.000But Mike, you're kind of exposing something that we rail on on this show a lot, which is the fact that we have not seen any sort of similar counter moves by AGs or even DAs in red states.
00:23:10.000Why are we not seeing that from red states, attorneys general, and DAs?
00:23:16.000I would say that Republicans, particularly Republican attorneys, and also Republican white male politicians, are the biggest cowards on the planet.
00:23:30.000They think that we're just going to return to norms after president.
00:24:59.000Yeah, I mean, anywhere there's a Republican Attorney General, a Republican DA with a backbone.
00:25:05.000And what we need to be looking at, and House Republicans, frankly, should be doing this as well.
00:25:10.000We need to be defunding the left and putting them on defense because when they're not on defense, they're on offense.
00:25:17.000And we've seen that for the last year with President Trump.
00:25:20.000There's a reason that Democrats feel emboldened to impeach a president twice for bogus reasons.
00:25:27.000Impeach President Trump for investigating then candidate Joe Biden's foreign corruption in Ukraine.
00:25:34.000There's a reason these Democrat prosecutors feel emboldened to indict him four times and these Democrat attorneys feel emboldened to sue him multiple times because there's not a consequence.
00:25:47.000So we need to show them there is a consequence.
00:25:49.000We need to defund all of this lawfare.
00:25:52.000Two appropriations writers, and I want to praise Congressman Andrew Clyde for taking the baton from the Article III project.
00:25:59.000Here are the two appropriations writers that House Republicans must include.
00:26:02.000No federal funds may be used to prosecute a major presidential candidate on or before November 5th, 2024.
00:26:09.000And any state or local government that prosecutes a major presidential candidate on or before November 5th, 2024 loses all federal funding, right?
00:26:18.000That is the kill switch, that you can cut all this lawfare off against President Trump before the election.
00:26:26.000The American people, not Democrat prosecutors, Democrat judges, and Democrat juries and Democrat hellholes like New York, D.C., New York, D.C., and Atlanta, get to decide the next presidential election.
00:26:50.000Now, I've got just a few more minutes with you here, Mike, and I want to play a clip for you that went mega viral on this show, Newt Gingrich.
00:27:14.000That I am told, this was hearsay, but I am told by a reliable source that Friday evening, somebody from Washington called the District Attorney in Atlanta and said, you have to indict on Monday.
00:27:26.000We have to cover up all of the mistakes we just made with Weiss.
00:27:30.000And she said, apparently, my jurors aren't coming back till Tuesday.
00:27:53.000And I'm telling you up front, this is hearsay, but it's from a person who has remarkably.
00:27:58.000I totally believe it, though, because that would explain why they leaked and they messed up on the clerk document, why she was exhausted, and why they had the 11 p.m. press conference, Mr. Speaker.
00:29:03.000Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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