The Charlie Kirk Show - January 11, 2024


Trump's Town Hall Triumph


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Trump crushes the foxtown hall and he is becoming stronger the more they throw at him. Trump has been on message the last 9 months and is on track to win the 2020 election. They are trying to delegitimize Trump and take him out of the race.

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00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody, it's on the Charlie Kirk show.
00:00:01.000 Trump crushes the Foxtown Hall.
00:00:04.000 We place some tape here, and he is becoming stronger the more they throw at him.
00:00:10.000 Very important episode here.
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00:00:38.000 Here we go.
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00:01:37.000 Remember, you're living through their plan.
00:01:40.000 They meet, they plan, they have a war room, and involved in it is Big Fanny Willis and Alvin Bragg and Jack Smith.
00:01:45.000 And part of the plan was to try to get a very tight primary.
00:01:50.000 And it's been a sleepy primary, hasn't it?
00:01:52.000 Donald Trump has been excellent the last nine months.
00:01:55.000 He's been excellent.
00:01:56.000 He's been on message.
00:01:57.000 He's been focused.
00:01:58.000 He's been building and consolidating support.
00:02:00.000 Part of the plan was to try to get Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump in this bitter fight.
00:02:06.000 And it just didn't materialize.
00:02:08.000 Again, if we were to say that who were one of the disappointments of 2023, it would be Governor Ron DeSantis.
00:02:14.000 And I'm very, very clear.
00:02:16.000 And I will remain this.
00:02:17.000 I get nasty emails when I say this.
00:02:18.000 He is America's greatest governor.
00:02:20.000 He's done a wonderful job in Florida across the board, and he deserves credit.
00:02:25.000 With that being said, he's been an underwhelming presidential candidate.
00:02:31.000 Underwhelming.
00:02:32.000 Ron DeSantis was supposed to give Trump a run for his money.
00:02:38.000 Now, coming on Monday, we'll see.
00:02:40.000 We'll see what happens with the Iowa caucus.
00:02:43.000 I'm afraid that bad weather, really cold temperatures, I am afraid that Trump winning by 10 is going to be framed as a loss.
00:02:58.000 We'll get to that.
00:02:59.000 But part of the strategy was that they thought they had psychologically mapped out Donald Trump.
00:03:06.000 The bad guys, the Valerie Jarretts, the Barack Hussein Obama's, the George Soros, the Lorene Powell Jobs, the Reid Hoffman's, they thought that they had mapped Trump.
00:03:16.000 And if you do nothing but read the New York Times and listen to the NPR podcasts, and if you do nothing but look at Trump from the outside, the stereotype about Donald Trump is that he is erratic.
00:03:33.000 There's no discipline, that he is a tyrant.
00:03:36.000 He's kind of like a Kim Jong-un unhinged character. 0.86
00:03:39.000 He throws his food on the wall.
00:03:42.000 He demands diet cokes at 2 a.m.
00:03:45.000 He has outbursts.
00:03:46.000 He has no self-control.
00:03:50.000 I never understood that from the outside because the hundreds of times I've spent around President Trump has been the opposite.
00:03:57.000 He's actually very focused.
00:04:00.000 He's not impulsive.
00:04:02.000 He's methodical.
00:04:02.000 Of course, at times he gets angry.
00:04:04.000 We all get angry.
00:04:05.000 But I never bought into this narrative that they would build on Morning Joe and that they would build on the New York Times that Donald Trump was this unhinged character that never thought things out, that he would be one step away with the nuclear button and get us into something regrettable.
00:04:24.000 Now, this is important, everybody, because they thought, the bad guys thought they had him mapped.
00:04:30.000 This is, of course, if you never spent time around him.
00:04:34.000 And this is important.
00:04:34.000 They thought that if they could indict him, they could force him into a non-stop, impulsive, not instinctive, impulsive 2023 and 2024 presidential race.
00:04:50.000 They thought that they could overwhelm him with lawfare, overwhelm him with legal baggage, and they thought that they could make him the unhinged candidate.
00:05:01.000 And they made a terrible mistake.
00:05:03.000 If you watched the Fox News Town Hall yesterday and you woke up from a coma and you omit all the legal questions, granted, you take all the legal questions out and it is Donald Trump just taking questions there.
00:05:20.000 He did not look or sound like a man facing 700 years in federal prison.
00:05:30.000 He was in total control.
00:05:32.000 He was funny.
00:05:33.000 He was self-deprecating.
00:05:35.000 He was magnanimous.
00:05:36.000 He was even gentle.
00:05:39.000 He was personal.
00:05:41.000 He was excellent.
00:05:43.000 He was calm.
00:05:44.000 He was confident.
00:05:45.000 He was measured.
00:05:45.000 In fact, I texted at least 10 people and I said, can you guys watch this to, you know, can I check my own premise here?
00:05:55.000 Are you seeing what I'm seeing?
00:05:57.000 This is the type of Trump that terrifies the bad guys.
00:06:04.000 Terrifies them. 0.57
00:06:05.000 They want the impulsive, unhinged Trump that never really actually existed.
00:06:10.000 But they want the Trump that might be righteously indignant.
00:06:13.000 They wanted the Trump there last night who would say, and I'm going to go after this person.
00:06:18.000 I'm going to go after that person.
00:06:19.000 And honestly, he deserves to say that because he's been targeted and lied on and twice impeached.
00:06:24.000 They spied on his campaign.
00:06:25.000 He's got 700 years in federal prison.
00:06:28.000 But Donald Trump, if he remains as he was last night, he is doing exactly what they are afraid of.
00:06:38.000 They're afraid of him being focused, not necessarily taking the bait.
00:06:45.000 They want him to be so angry.
00:06:49.000 They want that.
00:06:50.000 And they want to get the clips and put it on MSNBC and say, oh my goodness, he's so terrible and all this.
00:06:56.000 And look at that.
00:06:57.000 No, instead, he was funny.
00:07:01.000 He was lighthearted.
00:07:04.000 He didn't take the bait.
00:07:06.000 And he's only going to gain in popularity.
00:07:09.000 They thought they could force a behavioral pattern.
00:07:13.000 They thought they could force him into what we have called on this program, the wounded animal in a corner syndrome, where you're just barking at everything.
00:07:24.000 If you've ever seen kind of a dog that's put in a corner and you got nothing to lose, everything, you're a hammer looking for a nail.
00:07:33.000 Instead, he looked presidential.
00:07:35.000 And let me just say this.
00:07:37.000 Does the man ever age?
00:07:39.000 Does the man ever age?
00:07:42.000 A couple months ago, I was at Mar-a-Lago before it was opened to the public and had a meeting with President Trump.
00:07:48.000 And he's playing Phantom of the Opera.
00:07:50.000 He loves good music and all that.
00:07:51.000 And I said, Mr. President, I got a question for you.
00:07:54.000 We've known each other for a while and I'm of great respect of you.
00:07:58.000 You're facing 700 years in prison.
00:08:00.000 You got, you know, you're about to lose your business empire.
00:08:02.000 And how do you do it?
00:08:03.000 And he said, one answer: genes.
00:08:05.000 I got great genes.
00:08:07.000 I just said, okay, well, that's a pretty good answer, honestly.
00:08:11.000 And in some ways, you look at him, he looks younger than he did when he was president four years ago.
00:08:16.000 They wanted to back him against the wall in a corner, like a wounded animal.
00:08:24.000 Desperate, unhinged, impulsive.
00:08:28.000 And instead, the wall ended up being a staircase.
00:08:33.000 If you're a Democrat operative and you watch that town hall, you are the angry one.
00:08:39.000 And he is the calm, cool, and collected one.
00:08:41.000 And that's not to say that he doesn't have his moments of anger, probably flying back on Trump Force One when he's got nine missed calls from his lawyers about motions to dismiss and all that.
00:08:50.000 But if you are a Democrat operative, if you're a purple-haired jihadi, if you are a social justice warrior, if you are a Biden elite kleptocrat and you watched that town hall of Donald Trump just days out from the Iowa caucus, it's demoralizing for you because you look at him and you say, we have thrown everything currently.
00:09:12.000 And he looks unfazed.
00:09:14.000 Even if, even if, even if, even if Donald Trump was just playing a game, even if he was just pretending, doesn't matter.
00:09:22.000 He did not show an inch that it was bothering him.
00:09:26.000 As we've said before, Trump is anti-fragile.
00:09:29.000 All the attacks and smears empower him because he doesn't flake.
00:09:33.000 He doesn't crack.
00:09:34.000 He doesn't collapse into a sputtering mess.
00:09:37.000 We've seen, perfectly honest, what happens when Ron DeSantis is up against the wall.
00:09:41.000 He starts bobbling.
00:09:43.000 He starts attacking other people.
00:09:45.000 He's not built for that level of pressure.
00:09:47.000 And that's not a criticism against DeSantis.
00:09:49.000 Trump is a 100, once in a 100, once in a 200-year freak of nature. 0.97
00:09:55.000 I'm just going to be honest: Donald Trump is a freak of nature.
00:09:58.000 It is not normal that at his age, he can operate with this pace at this level of this kind of opposition. 0.99
00:10:04.000 He is an absolute freak of nature.
00:10:06.000 And I mean that in the most positive way, where you could throw all the stuff at him and he looks like he's having more fun than before that.
00:10:11.000 Not normal, not something that you can just create.
00:10:15.000 It just happens.
00:10:17.000 The fortitude, the spine, the perseverance.
00:10:21.000 I couldn't.
00:10:21.000 You couldn't.
00:10:22.000 A random person could not be going through what he's been going through over this many years and smile and be endearing and charming.
00:10:32.000 And, ooh, I like that person.
00:10:33.000 We're going to play these pieces of tape.
00:10:35.000 And if you are a Democrat operative and you're watching this and you're just begging, you're hoping that Trump is just going to all of a sudden step up and say, Let me give you my Mussolini speech.
00:10:46.000 Instead, he's talking about we're going to have so much success, we don't have time for retribution.
00:10:49.000 Ooh, that is an asymmetrical attack against MSNBC.
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00:12:00.000 So Donald Trump last evening had an incredible back and forth with voters.
00:12:08.000 And they wanted to try to make him the bad guys, throw everything at him.
00:12:12.000 They want unhinged Trump.
00:12:14.000 And instead, they get focused, calm, cool, measured.
00:12:18.000 And he was excellent on policy.
00:12:21.000 He was excellent on policy.
00:12:23.000 Now, Brett Baer and Martha, they did a good job.
00:12:26.000 I got to say, they did a good job.
00:12:27.000 Some of their questions were a little bit scripted from other forces and stuff.
00:12:32.000 However, the thing that I liked the best is they let Trump talk.
00:12:37.000 CNN never lets that.
00:12:39.000 Trump gave some five-minute answers, some six-minute answers.
00:12:42.000 I thought that was excellent.
00:12:43.000 I've always liked Martha.
00:12:44.000 Martha has always been very, very good to me.
00:12:46.000 I think I went on her show well over 50 or 60 times.
00:12:49.000 I really, really like her.
00:12:50.000 I've always gotten along with Brett Baer.
00:12:52.000 They were good last night.
00:12:53.000 They didn't make it about themselves.
00:12:55.000 They let the voters talk.
00:12:56.000 They let Trump talk.
00:12:57.000 They asked firm questions.
00:12:58.000 I would give feedback on one or two different things.
00:13:01.000 Typically, they always want to be the, they want to be the most important part of it, and they weren't.
00:13:11.000 They didn't get in the way.
00:13:13.000 They weren't necessarily, you know, sycophants.
00:13:17.000 I thought they did fine.
00:13:18.000 I just got to be perfectly honest.
00:13:19.000 I thought they did well.
00:13:20.000 I thought Fox produced a good product last night.
00:13:23.000 It was not Caitlin Collins, and it wasn't, and I'm friends with him, Sean Hannity, where it was just all positive.
00:13:28.000 It was a good product.
00:13:30.000 It was interesting.
00:13:32.000 And the way they even asked the opposition questions, I thought were very fair.
00:13:35.000 Again, one or two of them I thought was a little bit too much, but they said, look, this is going to be Joe Biden's vector of attack against you.
00:13:41.000 What is your response?
00:13:42.000 Perfectly fair question.
00:13:43.000 Perfectly fair.
00:13:44.000 And Donald Trump was excellent in this.
00:13:47.000 Excellent.
00:13:48.000 And something I think he has to keep on reminding people is that he was the peace president.
00:13:55.000 Play cut 95, please.
00:13:57.000 Remember that with phoning Russia, Russia, Russia.
00:14:00.000 I mean, if you look at Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine, everything was phoning.
00:14:03.000 The Pfizer warrants, the lying to Congress, they had chaos.
00:14:09.000 They were the ones that caused the chaos.
00:14:10.000 We didn't have chaos.
00:14:11.000 We got the biggest tax cuts in history, the biggest regulation cuts in history.
00:14:15.000 I had no wars.
00:14:16.000 I'm the only president in 72 years.
00:14:19.000 I didn't have any wars.
00:14:22.000 No wars.
00:14:24.000 No wars.
00:14:25.000 The peace president.
00:14:27.000 And there were multiple questions that were thrown at him.
00:14:31.000 And a Democrat operative would have loved to have him take the bait.
00:14:37.000 Let's play another piece of tape here regarding this.
00:14:42.000 Let's play cut 99 when they asked about mass deportations.
00:14:49.000 Play cut 99.
00:14:50.000 We have millions and millions of people here.
00:14:53.000 It is not sustainable.
00:14:55.000 Did you see in New York City with it getting the regular students out and they're putting migrants in their place? 1.00
00:15:02.000 We are going to have the largest deportation effort in the history of our country.
00:15:07.000 We're bringing everybody back to where they came from. 0.98
00:15:10.000 We have no choice.
00:15:12.000 We have no choice.
00:15:14.000 10 out of 10.
00:15:14.000 And I got to be honest, the way he said it was perfect.
00:15:17.000 He didn't raise his voice.
00:15:18.000 He didn't come across.
00:15:19.000 And by the way, the way you say that is just as important as what you say.
00:15:22.000 He didn't come across as mean-hearted.
00:15:24.000 He didn't come across as mean-spirited.
00:15:26.000 He didn't come across as nasty or vengeful.
00:15:29.000 He just came through as very matter of fact.
00:15:31.000 I got to compliment President Trump.
00:15:33.000 The way he answered that question was excellent.
00:15:35.000 By the way, he's totally right.
00:15:36.000 It's about enforcing our laws.
00:15:38.000 It is about tradition, standards, and practice.
00:15:42.000 The mainstream narrative that honestly some Republicans parrot sometimes, some suburban type voters, they believe this because it sounds right, but it's not right, is they say that, and Nimerata Haley, she repeats this all the time.
00:15:57.000 She says, oh, you know, chaos follows Trump and the reason not to vote for Trump is no chaos.
00:16:02.000 And Trump's answer was spectacular.
00:16:05.000 And I said, please answer it this way.
00:16:06.000 Please answer it this way.
00:16:08.000 And the answer is very simple.
00:16:09.000 You're living through chaos.
00:16:10.000 The border is chaos.
00:16:12.000 Inflation is chaos.
00:16:13.000 Ukraine is chaos. 0.98
00:16:14.000 The transgender stuff is chaos. 1.00
00:16:16.000 Biden is chaos. 0.99
00:16:17.000 I'm the stability guy.
00:16:18.000 And anything that might be viewed as chaos is because they attacked me.
00:16:21.000 They impeached me.
00:16:23.000 They spied on me.
00:16:24.000 We had a border.
00:16:25.000 We had a great economy.
00:16:26.000 We had rule of law.
00:16:27.000 10 out of 10 answer.
00:16:30.000 And it's 100% true.
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00:17:52.000 I want to riff for a second here on Iowa, and then I want to just go to this ridiculous CNN back and forth. 0.64
00:17:59.000 First of all, the aesthetics of the CNN thing was just so cringe.
00:18:03.000 I watched it for maybe five minutes, and they're arguing about stuff that Nimerata did or didn't do when she was governor nearly a decade ago.
00:18:10.000 It was such an unbelievable waste of time.
00:18:12.000 Like this primary, it's an unbelievable waste of time.
00:18:16.000 And I don't think we should forgive easily the fact that we have deployed hundreds of millions of dollars to get the same outcome that we otherwise would have gone, would have received.
00:18:25.000 I don't think we should just turn the page and say, oh, you know, this was just fine.
00:18:28.000 I think we should be pretty harsh about it.
00:18:30.000 We should be pretty tough.
00:18:31.000 And I'm going to talk about what that means in just a second, but the CNN town hall is important.
00:18:35.000 But first, the Iowa.
00:18:38.000 If Donald Trump wins by eight points on Monday, that's a huge success.
00:18:43.000 Iowa is a great place, but it's a tricky political environment.
00:18:47.000 It's very, very tricky.
00:18:48.000 Donald Trump could win anywhere between five points or 30 points.
00:18:52.000 The weather is going to be very, very cold.
00:18:55.000 And you never want to be in a place, and this is my piece of feedback to Donald Trump personally, both privately and publicly.
00:19:04.000 You never want to be in a place where if you win, your actual media victory will depend on the margin of victory.
00:19:13.000 That's never a good place to be in.
00:19:16.000 To use a sports analogy of which we use quite frequently, the draft king's odds of Donald Trump's victory is they have him as like a 28-point favorite.
00:19:26.000 So if he wins by 15 points, they're going to say, well, you know, Nimerata and DeSantis, they beat the line by 13 points.
00:19:35.000 And so I really think the spread, if you will, is way too much.
00:19:41.000 And the media is loving this.
00:19:43.000 So the media is they, if it's less than 10 points, if Donald Trump ends up winning by less than 10 points, they're going to frame it as a catastrophic failure.
00:19:55.000 And then that leads us to New Hampshire.
00:19:57.000 And New Hampshire is even more of a tricky type environment because they allow Democrats to vote in the Republican primary New Hampshire.
00:20:07.000 A little bit more of a moderate disposition.
00:20:09.000 A lot of Bostonites have migrated to New Hampshire.
00:20:13.000 It's not that far out of Boston.
00:20:14.000 A lot of Massachusetts types, a lot of highly educated, upper-middle-class types that are not huge fans of Donald Trump.
00:20:23.000 They go to New Hampshire.
00:20:24.000 And so you got to be careful.
00:20:25.000 And they're going to try to artificially and synthetically make it seem that it's going to be Nimerata versus Trump.
00:20:33.000 And then what comes after New Hampshire?
00:20:36.000 South Carolina, where Nikki Haley was previously governor.
00:20:42.000 So a lot of this, again, once this thing rolls on and we start getting to Nebraska and Montana and California and Texas, Trump is going to run the table.
00:20:51.000 The question, though, is, and I'm not worried about Trump being in jeopardy to get the actual nomination.
00:20:56.000 That is not my concern.
00:20:57.000 My concern is, is Trump going to have to spend an extra 20, 30, 50, 60 million dollars unnecessarily jousting it out with Nimerada with precious resources, precious energy coming into the next few weeks, all about a shouting match about Nikki Haley and Donald Trump. 0.51
00:21:18.000 It should be about conserving resources.
00:21:20.000 At this point, it's very, very clear that Donald Trump is going to be the nominee.
00:21:24.000 The RNC barely exists right now.
00:21:25.000 They have no money.
00:21:27.000 There's whispers coming out that they're more dysfunctional than ever.
00:21:29.000 We're hosting our own alternative RNC meeting in the days leading up to it in Vegas.
00:21:34.000 The media wants a horse race.
00:21:36.000 The Democrats want a horse race.
00:21:37.000 They're begging for it.
00:21:39.000 So we have to be very, very careful about the expectations that we set.
00:21:42.000 And secondly, if you live in Iowa and you are a Trump supporter, you absolutely need to show up to the caucus.
00:21:50.000 We need massive turnouts like we've never seen before.
00:21:54.000 It is tempting.
00:21:55.000 And my only piece of feedback that I did not like from President Trump's town hall is stop emphasizing how much you're up in the polls.
00:22:01.000 That's not helpful.
00:22:03.000 Don't do that because some people hear that and it's negative 10 degrees or whatever it's going to be in Iowa.
00:22:08.000 They say, oh, he's going to win.
00:22:09.000 I don't need to go.
00:22:11.000 So that's my only critical piece of feedback to President Trump is that that's not helpful.
00:22:16.000 I know.
00:22:17.000 Now, on the other side of it, on the other side of it, there's an argument to be made that people support winners.
00:22:22.000 And when you say you're up, you actually build more support because why would somebody want to waste a vote on a loser?
00:22:27.000 That is actually proven to also be true.
00:22:29.000 So it's a balance.
00:22:30.000 You want to come across as the frontrunner, but you also want to create a sense of urgency amongst your rank and file to try to win by as many points as possible and maximize turnout.
00:22:39.000 However, that's not the case in a caucus system typically when it's 10 below zero.
00:22:45.000 And in a caucus system, you can't show up at 10 a.m.
00:22:48.000 You can't show up at 1 p.m.
00:22:49.000 You can't show up at 4 p.m.
00:22:51.000 It's a very specific window of a very specific place where you have to show up.
00:22:55.000 And if you miss that 90-minute window, you're not going to have your vote counted.
00:22:59.000 Caucuses are not like primaries.
00:23:01.000 There's really no ballots.
00:23:02.000 You do it on a back of a piece of paper, a little tearout.
00:23:05.000 You put it into a bucket.
00:23:06.000 They count it right there.
00:23:08.000 It's all right in front of you.
00:23:10.000 There's no like machines or paper ballots or voting early.
00:23:13.000 It's none of that stuff.
00:23:14.000 A caucus system is old school.
00:23:16.000 Politics, honestly, is pretty awesome.
00:23:18.000 The way they do it, I'm not even criticizing it, but I'm saying it's a heavy emphasis on energy, heavy emphasis on turnout, heavy emphasis on commitment.
00:23:27.000 And if people think that Trump is going to win by 30, then they might just stay at home.
00:23:31.000 We want to do everything we possibly can to prevent a long drawn out primary.
00:23:39.000 We want to do everything we possibly can to try to make this a race in South Carolina unnecessarily. 1.00
00:23:44.000 We don't want that.
00:23:45.000 We do not want that.
00:23:47.000 Okay, so I want to play some pieces of tape here.
00:23:50.000 Back the aesthetics were so terrible of Nikki Haley and DeSantis.
00:23:55.000 But first, I don't know if you know this, but the Republican Party primary really thinned out yesterday because Chris Christie dropped out.
00:24:03.000 Very thinned out.
00:24:05.000 Thinned out.
00:24:07.000 Chris Christie was caught on a hot mic.
00:24:10.000 Pretty important.
00:24:10.000 Play cut 92.
00:24:12.000 Yeah, I mean, look, she spent 68 million so far.
00:24:14.000 It's just on TV.
00:24:16.000 Spent 68 million so far.
00:24:17.000 59 million by DeSantis.
00:24:19.000 And we spent 12.
00:24:21.000 I mean, who's punching above their weight and who's getting a return on their investment?
00:24:26.000 And she's going to get smoked.
00:24:27.000 And you and I both know it.
00:24:29.000 She's not up to this.
00:24:29.000 She hasn't even been.
00:24:31.000 She's still 20 points behind Trump in New Hampshire, right?
00:24:33.000 Oh, yeah.
00:24:34.000 And he's going to carry out it, right?
00:24:36.000 Yes.
00:24:37.000 I talked to DeSantis called me.
00:24:41.000 Petrified.
00:24:42.000 Oh, that's the best part.
00:24:43.000 We cut it off.
00:24:45.000 He's petrified that he's just going to get obliterated, effectively.
00:24:48.000 So Chris Christie drops out, and Chris Christie continues play cut 93.
00:24:53.000 I've always said that if there came a point in time in this race where I couldn't see a path to accomplishing that goal, that I would get out. 0.91
00:25:05.000 And it's clear to me tonight that there isn't a path for me to win the nomination, which is why I'm suspending my campaign tonight for president of the United States.
00:25:19.000 I want to promise you this: I am going to make sure that in no way do I enable Donald Trump to ever be president of the United States again.
00:25:31.000 And that's more important than my own personal ambition. 0.97
00:25:37.000 I want you to understand how sick this man is.
00:25:39.000 Instead, he should be saying, I'm going to do everything I possibly can to make sure Joe Biden, the Democrats, won't become president again. 0.89
00:25:44.000 Chris Christie is more concerned about Trump not becoming president than a Democrat going to the White House.
00:25:50.000 That's repulsive.
00:25:51.000 Absolutely repulsive.
00:25:53.000 And that's why he's going to keep on going on ABC and NBC.
00:25:57.000 He has controlled opposition.
00:25:59.000 I want you to think about how dark that is.
00:26:01.000 He does this town hall and he says, my top priority is preventing Trump.
00:26:07.000 He very well could say, like, look, I don't like Trump.
00:26:10.000 I don't want him to become president.
00:26:11.000 But above everything else, my top priority is making sure a Democrat does not become president of the United States.
00:26:16.000 Because Chris Christie would prefer four more years of Joe Biden versus Donald Trump.
00:26:22.000 The CNN, whatever that was, debate, you had Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley.
00:26:32.000 And it was just this silly back and forth the entire time.
00:26:36.000 Hundreds of millions of dollars spent between the two of them to try to prop up their campaigns to try to get them some sort of traction.
00:26:44.000 It's all been a waste.
00:26:45.000 Imagine if that money was actually spent on critical infrastructure, securing our elections, helping out with ballot chasing, building the machine that we need to win.
00:26:59.000 If Donald Trump is not successful in November, we should hold Ron DeSantis and Nimerata Haley partially accountable.
00:27:07.000 I'm being honest.
00:27:08.000 It's not a popular thing to say.
00:27:09.000 Ron DeSantis is a great governor.
00:27:11.000 He has spent hundreds of millions of dollars.
00:27:14.000 And imagine if Ron DeSantis instead could have come out and realized that the grass is not always greener, that you don't always have to be perpetually and completely ambitious towards everything.
00:27:28.000 In fact, he made a terrible and complete mistake.
00:27:31.000 He could have deployed that money and built up his name ID.
00:27:36.000 Ron DeSantis could have been a hero.
00:27:40.000 He could have been a hero.
00:27:42.000 And he could have come out and he could have said, you know what?
00:27:46.000 I'm going to spend all my money to make sure that the Democrats don't take the Senate.
00:27:51.000 And I'm going to have the Ron DeSantis pack.
00:27:54.000 You could have name it after yourself, man.
00:27:55.000 We would have had no problem with that.
00:27:56.000 We would have had you on every show.
00:27:58.000 You could have done a media circuit.
00:27:59.000 You could have just enjoyed the beautiful weather in Florida.
00:28:01.000 You could have raised even more money.
00:28:02.000 You could have raised a couple hundred million bucks.
00:28:04.000 You could have wrote another book.
00:28:06.000 You could have been, you know, my plan for 2024.
00:28:09.000 You could have spoken at all of our turning point events.
00:28:11.000 Imagine the lifestyle.
00:28:12.000 You'd be well received.
00:28:13.000 You deploy these hundreds of millions of dollars.
00:28:15.000 You go to a ballot chasing army.
00:28:16.000 You could be attacking Democrats.
00:28:18.000 You could be fielding your own roster for 2028.
00:28:21.000 All of that could have been.
00:28:22.000 But he didn't listen to any of us.
00:28:24.000 In fact, Ron DeSantis was too good to come to a turning point event.
00:28:27.000 We warned him, and how's it working out for him?
00:28:30.000 Ron DeSantis has burned hundreds of millions of dollars.
00:28:33.000 And we've said this repeatedly, and other people come out and they do all this.
00:28:36.000 If Donald Trump is not successful in November, it'll be partially responsible because we are now six to nine months behind and hundreds of millions of dollars behind for what purpose?
00:28:46.000 The ego and the vanity of Nimerata Haley, Chris Christie, and Ron DeSantis.
00:28:51.000 And that's a tragedy.
00:28:52.000 It's not insurmountable.
00:28:54.000 The sooner they drop out, the better.
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00:30:56.000 All right, I'm going to try to connect different parts here, and you're going to have to indulge me.
00:31:01.000 The greatest college football coach of all time announced his retirement yesterday, Nick Sabin.
00:31:08.000 Without a doubt, the GOAT, the greatest of all time.
00:31:10.000 He has more national championships in the modern era than any other coach.
00:31:14.000 I think he might have the most ever.
00:31:17.000 It's close to, this is all in the BCS college football playoff era, so it's different pre-2001.
00:31:22.000 But I think Beauchamp Blecker, Woody Hayes, I think they pale in comparison to the amount of national titles that Nick Sabin got.
00:31:29.000 What he was able to accomplish was unprecedented.
00:31:31.000 He is without a doubt the greatest of all time, especially in a highly competitive college football landscape.
00:31:38.000 So I'm a big college football guy.
00:31:39.000 It's my one indulgence.
00:31:40.000 I understand the contradictions.
00:31:41.000 I think college is a scam.
00:31:42.000 I get it.
00:31:42.000 I own it.
00:31:43.000 It's the one thing that I focus on that is a release that is non-work.
00:31:47.000 I love football.
00:31:47.000 I happen to love college football.
00:31:48.000 I love all the drama, the pageantry, the tradition, all that stuff.
00:31:51.000 Okay.
00:31:51.000 So I get this alert, duna, nun, duna nun, you know, the ESPN alert.
00:31:56.000 And it says Nick Saban retiring.
00:31:58.000 And as soon, and again, as being a huge Oregon Ducks fan, I say, oh my goodness, they're going to try to poach the Oregon Ducks coach, who just happens to be amazing.
00:32:05.000 He's a Christian.
00:32:06.000 He works his tail off.
00:32:07.000 He's young.
00:32:08.000 He's high energy.
00:32:09.000 He's done a great job so far at Oregon and he's ascendant.
00:32:11.000 And my suspicion was initially right.
00:32:14.000 The internet explodes, right?
00:32:15.000 They're saying, oh, Dan Lanning's in Tuscaloosa and he's going to leave and the grass is always greener.
00:32:20.000 And it is, it is so rare.
00:32:23.000 And this is why I wanted to say this.
00:32:24.000 And it ties into the DeSantis thing.
00:32:26.000 It is so hard to find sometimes somebody that checks the temptation that the grass is always greener.
00:32:35.000 And to be perfectly honest, it takes a serious amount of integrity and discipline to say, I'm going to turn down being the frontrunner for what is considered to be the throne of college football.
00:32:49.000 This is the king, the goat, Nick Sabin.
00:32:53.000 And by all public reports, Dan Lanning could have had the job if he wanted it.
00:32:57.000 The Alabama blogs were all leaking stuff and they said they'll pay us $20 million buyout and all of that.
00:33:03.000 And the humility and the commitment, because this is how it works in college football, the same thing in politics. 0.95
00:33:07.000 Most of them are all liars. 0.71
00:33:09.000 These coaches, I'm not going anywhere. 0.82
00:33:10.000 And I have a commitment to Oregon State University ends up leaving.
00:33:13.000 I have a commitment to this, ends up leaving.
00:33:16.000 And it's so common to find that.
00:33:18.000 Same thing with Ron DeSantis, by the way.
00:33:20.000 Ron DeSantis, I have a commitment to all this, ends up burning hundreds of millions of dollars.
00:33:24.000 It is so hard to find.
00:33:26.000 And I was on edge because of all these reports.
00:33:28.000 I said, man, Dan Lanning being the coach of Oregon, he's a family man.
00:33:31.000 He's a fighter.
00:33:32.000 He works hard.
00:33:33.000 He's huge integrity.
00:33:34.000 His players love him.
00:33:35.000 He's a great recruiter.
00:33:36.000 Is he the guy that we think he is?
00:33:38.000 Or is he just going to do the typical thing where he says, I'm here to stay at Oregon?
00:33:41.000 And boom, he gets on a jet and goes to Tuscaloosa and signs a $50 million contract.
00:33:46.000 And so he just posted this video, which I just got to brag on this.
00:33:49.000 And forget that, the fact I'm an Oregon Ducks fan.
00:33:51.000 It's just so hard to find somebody who does what they say he's going to do to resist the temptation that the grass is not always greener.
00:33:59.000 Alabama wanted him. 0.99
00:34:00.000 They were doing a full press, full court press.
00:34:02.000 He could have made $50 to $60 million.
00:34:04.000 And instead, he posted this today: Play Cut 108.
00:34:09.000 Who has goals and aspirations?
00:34:10.000 Raise your hand up.
00:34:12.000 Everybody got goals and aspirations.
00:34:14.000 You know how you get those?
00:34:15.000 You be the best where you're at.
00:34:17.000 That's how you reach goals and aspirations.
00:34:19.000 That's how great things happen.
00:34:20.000 It's not about worrying about the next thing.
00:34:22.000 It's about worrying what's right in front of you, six inches right in front of your face.
00:34:25.000 I want to remind you guys what that means.
00:34:27.000 You guys just got here don't know, right?
00:34:29.000 But it means certainly being an Oregon Duck.
00:34:31.000 Everybody makes what?
00:34:32.000 They all make commitments to things that they're going to do.
00:34:34.000 A lot of startups, the world doesn't have a lot of what?
00:34:37.000 Finishers.
00:34:38.000 We're finishers.
00:34:39.000 I want to be here in Eugene for as long as Eugene will have me.
00:34:42.000 This place has everything that I could possibly ever want.
00:34:45.000 There's a little bit of a problem in society today with people looking for what's next and where there's an opportunity.
00:34:52.000 And the reality is, you know, the grass is not always greener.
00:34:55.000 In fact, the grass is damn green in Eugene.
00:34:59.000 Now, why do I play that?
00:35:00.000 I just think that is worth bragging on.
00:35:02.000 I think it's worth celebrating.
00:35:04.000 And it's so different than what DeSantis would have done.
00:35:06.000 DeSantis could have been like Dan Lanning.
00:35:08.000 I have something great in Florida.
00:35:10.000 I have a war chest.
00:35:11.000 I made commitments that I'm here to defeat the Democrats.
00:35:14.000 That blind ambition is not actually always the best choice.
00:35:19.000 You think about it, you know, Sabin, the goat, Trump, on, you know, how can you fill those shoes?
00:35:23.000 What can you do?
00:35:24.000 And it's so hard to find.
00:35:26.000 He made the right choice there in DeSantis now.
00:35:28.000 Hundreds of millions of dollars spent and wasted.
00:35:32.000 Everyone is mad at DeSantis for leaving Florida without a governor.
00:35:34.000 It's complete and total bedlam.
00:35:37.000 And his approval ratings are down, and people aren't happy with him.
00:35:40.000 Imagine alternative reality, I want you to say.
00:35:42.000 DeSantis could have said, Boy, I was thinking of running, but it just doesn't feel right for me.
00:35:47.000 And I'm going to spend every dollar to defeat Joe Biden and raise more money.
00:35:51.000 And we'll have the Ron DeSantis pack in Georgia, Ron DeSantis Pack in Arizona.
00:35:54.000 And I'm going to write another book and we're going to do cable news stuff and we're going to govern Florida.
00:35:59.000 And the grass is not always greener.
00:36:00.000 I might not like everything Trump is doing, but we have to build the party.
00:36:04.000 He would be a hero.
00:36:05.000 And those hundreds of millions of dollars would be preciously deployed right now.
00:36:10.000 Instead, he has left us in a weaker position for what?
00:36:14.000 For what?
00:36:17.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:36:18.000 Email us as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:36:21.000 Thanks so much for listening.
00:36:23.000 God bless.
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