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00:02:51.000 It is about halftime in the 2020 race, so use a sports analogy, let's give the halftime report an honest analysis of how the Joe Biden campaign and the Donald Trump campaign is trending.

00:03:03.000 Now understand.

00:03:04.000 We really don't have a presidential campaign, for lack of a better term.

00:03:09.000 We kind of have a presidential referendum on president Trump.

00:03:11.000 We're, We're going to dive into that and so much more.

00:03:13.000 And look, it's important to realize that the 2020 race is not even in its final phase.

00:03:18.000 But I think it'll be kind of helpful to take that kind of halftime report.

00:03:21.000 We're right before the convention.

00:03:23.000 For all intents and purposes, the convention is the most important part of the kickoff of a campaign.

00:03:28.000 You kind of have this long, drawn-out summer where candidates go back and forth.

00:03:32.000 But even that is not happening because Joe Biden is deciding he doesn't want to campaign at all.

00:03:36.000 And he's actually winning in a lot of different polls because of it.

00:03:39.000 I have doubts about some of those polls, but I think it's fair to say that Joe Biden is definitely able to benefit from the lockdowns and the virus and the race riots because he's not in power.

00:03:50.000 It is kind of a referendum on how awful America is, not necessarily a referendum on President Trump.

00:03:56.000 So here's how to assess the race and what each candidate ought to do going forward.

00:04:00.000 We're going to go through Joe Biden, what he's doing right, what he's not doing right, some vulnerabilities for Joe Biden.

00:04:04.000 We're going to go through Donald Trump, what he's doing right, and some things that he's not doing correct so far, his campaign, that is.

00:04:10.000 This race was always going to be difficult for President Trump.

00:04:13.000 We knew that in 2020 that they were going to throw out everything they possibly could.

00:04:18.000 Different accusations, big revealing books, the John Bolton book, the president's niece.

00:04:23.000 We knew all this sort of stuff was going to come to a point of intersection.

00:04:28.000 That is before the Chinese flu or the Chinese coronavirus or the China flu and the killing of George Floyd.

00:04:34.000 F and F, if you will, the flu and Floyd.

00:04:37.000 So we'll just kind of call them the virus and the race riots, for lack of better terms.

00:04:41.000 We knew that President Trump had no chance, basically, of winning the popular vote.

00:04:46.000 He didn't win it in 2016.

00:04:47.000 He is probably more hated in states like California and New York than he even was in 2016.

00:04:53.000 And you look at those states like California, New York, and Illinois, they are more committed to defeating him in 2020 than they were in 2016.

00:05:02.000 Now, if you do not have the popularity to win the popular vote, then you have no margin for error in certain specific states.

00:05:08.000 You have to thread the needle.

00:05:09.000 You have to thread the needle in Michigan, Florida, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Arizona, and Iowa, or some combination of those states.

00:05:17.000 We'll go through the different combinations it's going to take for President Trump to win in 2016.

00:05:22.000 Now, mind you, it's possible for the president to win the presidency again without winning Michigan.

00:05:27.000 It is harder and harder to win the White House without winning Florida.

00:05:31.000 And we'll kind of go through those combinations.

00:05:33.000 Now, mind you, polls in January are not votes in November.

00:05:37.000 But going back to January, the president was nearly tied or barely behind Joe Biden in those states.

00:05:42.000 Now, polls have President Trump down eight, if not 14 points.

00:05:46.000 I don't believe those polls, but I believe they're about half right.

00:05:48.000 So I think President Trump is down a couple points in the key states.

00:05:51.000 Now, look, a significant number of people in those close swing states wasted their vote in 2016 by voting for a third-party candidate.

00:05:59.000 This is a very important point that a lot of Democrats, a lot of left-wing socialists, they voted for Jill Stein or they didn't vote at all or they voted for a third-party candidate, which in some ways created the space for President Trump to win the White House, especially in states like Wisconsin and Michigan.

00:06:16.000 If you tally the third-party votes in Wisconsin plus the amount that Donald Trump won by, which is about 8,000 votes, if you add them together, if all of them voted for Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton would have won the state.

00:06:27.000 Now, probably all of them won't do that again, but a third-party voting individual will probably less likely to vote for Donald Trump in 2020 than they did in 2016 because they're going to want to try to get rid of what they consider to be the biggest threat to America and the biggest threat to liberty and freedom and all the nonsense that the left propagates every single day.

00:06:45.000 Now, you look at the two things, the virus and the race riots, and the lockdowns because of the virus, they've done two very important things as it relates to the candidates.

00:06:53.000 For President Trump, it's done the following.

00:06:55.000 It has allowed the press and his enemies to promote every negative personal narrative about him and his presidency that they have been pushing since the very beginning. 0.96

00:07:05.000 The lockdowns and the race riots have opened up storytelling lines saying that he's incompetent, he's corrupt, he's racist, inexperienced, pettiness.

00:07:16.000 All of the things that they have been throwing at him for the last couple years all of a sudden are sticking more because of the pain that America is feeling.

00:07:25.000 You could not have designed a better political climate for Joe Biden.

00:07:28.000 I mean, if you were trying to design the perfect political ecosystem for someone who can't actually campaign because of mental decline, if you are trying to design a political, let's say, state of affairs for someone that is unable to give a speech, this lockdown culture that we are living through right now is perfect for Joe Biden.

00:07:48.000 You see, the George Floyd race riots, coupled with the lockdowns, have allowed him to basically shelter in place, to be in the candidate equivalent of the witness protection program.

00:08:01.000 Every single day that the focus has remained on how racist America is or the Chinese coronavirus is a day where the media has allowed Biden to self-isolate.

00:08:11.000 Now, before looking at both of the candidates, there's a key fundamental difference to remember about the voters for each of these candidates.

00:08:17.000 There are, of course, exceptions to this general statement, so I want to be very careful before I say this.

00:08:22.000 But we live under a bell curve.

00:08:24.000 And the bell curve might be a little bit, let's say, dramatic, like something out of Salvador Dali painting, but a bell curve nonetheless.

00:08:30.000 But here's the truth.

00:08:31.000 The majority of voters for Joe Biden are driven more by a fear and hatred of Donald Trump than a love for Biden.

00:08:39.000 And some polling reflects that that we're going to get into later in the article.

00:08:42.000 While most of the president's voters are driven more by a love for him and not the hatred of Joe Biden.

00:08:48.000 Now, the above contention makes Biden's choice for vice president much more important than typically it usually is.

00:08:56.000 It's already important for many reasons, some of which is Biden's imminent cognitive decline makes it seem that the vice president is likely to one day soon become the president.

00:09:08.000 Now, Joe Biden is pretending to be something that he's not.

00:09:11.000 Joe Biden is using the old phrase, the ends justify the means.

00:09:15.000 Basically, I'm going to lie myself to the top.

00:09:18.000 I'm going to pretend I am a moderate, even though that Joe Biden is a radical.

00:09:23.000 Even though Joe Biden is pandering to the most radical interests, the most radical elements of the Democrat Marxist base, the media is conveniently covering for him because the media alongside Joe Biden, they believe that no matter what it takes to assume power, that is what you should do.

00:09:41.000 In some sense, it's actually really Machiavellian.

00:09:44.000 And now, I've used that term before, Machiavellian.

00:09:47.000 What does that actually mean?

00:09:49.000 Well, let's actually talk about a partner that we here have here on the Charlie Kirk show. 1.00

00:09:53.000 It's called Thinker, T-H-I-N-K-R. 0.84

00:09:56.000 A lot of you email me and you say, Charlie, how are you able to read all these books?

00:10:02.000 How are you able to get all these ideas internalized and then revert them back onto your podcast?

00:10:07.000 Well, I do read a lot of these books, and some of them, I just go to very well-done summaries.

00:10:12.000 And that's what thinker.org does.

00:10:14.000 So thinker.org, again, it's T-H-I-N-K-R.

00:10:18.000 We're going to have it in the show description so you make sure you get the spelling correctly.

00:10:22.000 But th I NKR.org slash Charlie, if you want to be able to access it, they're able to summarize certain books.

00:10:28.000 And so one of which is a book I'm very familiar with, The Prince, by Niccolo Machiavelli.

00:10:34.000 Now, you've probably heard that phrase before, Machiavellian.

00:10:38.000 Well, it literally is actually named after a person.

00:10:41.000 So Machiavelli wrote two books that he was very famous for.

00:10:45.000 The most, the book he was most famous for was called The Prince.

00:10:49.000 It was written in the late 15th century.

00:10:51.000 And essentially, this was during a time of a lot of turmoil in Italy.

00:10:56.000 Italy had a ruling class that was continually in upheaval.

00:11:01.000 Niccolo Machiavelli, he theorized in a book called The Prince, what is it that actually makes a good leader?

00:11:09.000 Now, there are two huge takeaways from this book that you probably have used when describing politics before.

00:11:15.000 You just might not know they're from the book The Prince by Machiavelli.

00:11:19.000 And some of it is very applicable to Joe Biden.

00:11:21.000 So here's some of the key insights from the book.

00:11:24.000 Number one is that The Prince, and he puts forward this theoretical idea of what does a good ruler mean?

00:11:30.000 And he actually uses Christian ethics.

00:11:32.000 So this is a Christian ethic book intersected with politics.

00:11:36.000 And he says, what does a good ruler embody?

00:11:39.000 And that person he calls the prince.

00:11:40.000 So he says the prince cannot be all virtue and no vice.

00:11:45.000 He must learn to use necessary vices strategically.

00:11:49.000 So he makes the argument that even a good ruler must use the sword, must be unafraid to spill blood every once in a while.

00:11:57.000 He says that princes who appear liberal will appear mean.

00:12:01.000 Now, not liberal in the way that we know it, but meaning open-minded.

00:12:04.000 Those who are mean will be remembered as liberal or as open-minded.

00:12:09.000 And it's kind of a counterintuitive truth.

00:12:12.000 Machiavelli also argued in The Prince that it's better to be both loved and feared, but if you must choose, being feared is more effective.

00:12:20.000 So you've probably heard that thought exercise by maybe a teacher or a parent or a politician.

00:12:26.000 Would you rather be loved or feared?

00:12:28.000 Well, that comes from this book.

00:12:29.000 That struggle of love versus fear in leadership comes from The Prince, one of the most important philosophical and political books of our time.

00:12:38.000 And Machiavelli argues that it's better to be feared than loved.

00:12:43.000 Both are nice, but if you're nothing but loved, you will not be respected.

00:12:47.000 It's the most vital of all, though, to not be hated.

00:12:51.000 So he kind of creates that third category.

00:12:54.000 And so he even creates this new term called criminal virtue, that a leader must be wise, strategic, brave, but also be ruthless.

00:13:05.000 That if you are not ruthless alongside being wise, strategic, and brave, you'll be feckless and you will lose power.

00:13:12.000 He actually glamorized the political process, so much so that the Catholic Church banned this book for 200 years in Italy until the 1700s when it was allowed to be read again.

00:13:23.000 It was actually considered to be heretical or be a piece of heresy.

00:13:27.000 Machiavelli argued that you can't be good for all things.

00:13:30.000 And the thing that he was most famous for, out of all of it, is that the ends justify the means, that you can lie yourself to the top, that if you are lying in the pursuit of something that is considered to be good, then therefore what you are doing is good.

00:13:47.000 Now, it's very hard to justify the Christian ethic under that kind of decision-making matrix.

00:13:52.000 We have seen that using sin as a reason to justify something virtuous down the road is incredibly dangerous.

00:14:01.000 It's pernicious by default and by definition.

00:14:04.000 But this is what Machiavelli argues.

00:14:06.000 And again, this is all made possible in a lot of different ways at thinker.org, T-H-I-N-K-R.org/slash Charlie.

00:14:14.000 They have some other great books, Liberal Fascism, Right Side of History by Ben Shapiro, Why Nations Fall.

00:14:19.000 So I encourage you guys to do it because if you want to explore really big ideas quickly and be able to connect to a lot of the philosophers that we talk about here on the Charlie Kirk show, in eight minutes, they have an audio version as well.

00:14:29.000 You'll be able to get the big picture arguments of the prince.

00:14:31.000 Now, it's not a replacement of the actual book.

00:14:33.000 I still encourage you going into these sorts of thoughts and these ideas.

00:14:36.000 But for those of you in school that have to read these books quickly and maybe you're sidetracked because you have a job or you have some other things going on or maybe it doesn't interest you that much, thinker.org is the place to go to explore big ideas.

00:14:46.000 And that's exactly what Joe Biden is thinking right now.

00:14:49.000 For Joe Biden, he believes the ends justify the means.

00:14:52.000 I'm going to pretend to be a moderate.

00:14:54.000 I'm going to lie to be someone that I am not so that I can attain power because he thinks he's going to do good once he's in power, which of course he isn't doing good.

00:15:02.000 So here's what Biden needs to do, understanding that he, of course, is employing Machiavellian tactics.

00:15:09.000 He needs to basically become, he needs to become the best operator in a bunker in American history.

00:15:16.000 If he is able to hide successfully from now till election day and the media will cover for him and Donald Trump is not able to flush him out, then he's going to get elected as president of the United States.

00:15:27.000 Only people deeply preoccupied with politics understand Biden's cognitive issues.

00:15:32.000 Seriously, I've talked to many Democrats.

00:15:34.000 I've talked about it before on this program that have no understanding at all that Joe Biden is actually in steep mental and cognitive decline.

00:15:42.000 The press is not going to go after it.

00:15:44.000 In fact, they're dismissing it whenever it is brought up.

00:15:48.000 There's a really, really smart article that is written.

00:15:50.000 I read a lot of things on the left as much as I can tolerate it as I can.

00:15:54.000 I read a couple hours a day, and I encourage all of you to do that as well, which is why I am promoting thinker.org slash Charlie, which is reading is really important and making notes.

00:16:04.000 And there's an article here, which you're going to find perplexing that I'm citing it.

00:16:08.000 It's from Vox.com, which most of what Vox publishes very well could have passed as meaningful propaganda from the Stalinist Pulit Bureau.

00:16:16.000 I mean, it's incredibly disastrous to a free society. 0.53

00:16:19.000 But this article was really insightful, and I've read it a couple times, and it's really fair.

00:16:23.000 It just is.

00:16:24.000 And it says how Biden is winning.

00:16:26.000 And it was written by Ezra Klein, who has an incredibly high IQ, but very little patriotism.

00:16:26.000 And so I was curious.

00:16:31.000 Awful mixture.

00:16:32.000 You know, high IQ and resentment for the country is not a good combination for the betterment of a free society.

00:16:37.000 But I've always considered Ezra to be really smart.

00:16:40.000 I mean, there's no doubt about it.

00:16:41.000 Ezra got really good test scores and has a high IQ.

00:16:44.000 And someone told him they hate America early on and he's never been able to shake that idea.

00:16:47.000 But he wrote this article of how Biden is winning.

00:16:49.000 And there's a lot of it, I'm going to quote from, I'm going to read one of them, and I agree with it.

00:16:53.000 After the 2016 election, panicked, wounded Democrats settled on a diagnosis.

00:16:58.000 Trump, for all his mania, bigotry and chaos, had given angry Americans something to vote for.

00:17:04.000 To stop him, Democrats would need to match force with counterforce, polarization with mobilization.

00:17:11.000 They would need to show as much anger, as much populism, as much wrecking ball energy as he did.

00:17:17.000 Biden is running and for now winning by defying that diagnosis.

00:17:21.000 That's really well put by Ezra.

00:17:23.000 I have to say, a lot of the burn it all down energy by the Democrats, Biden is going out of his way to not embrace.

00:17:31.000 And there's another part of this that I'm going to talk about.

00:17:33.000 But a lot of Biden's statements is we should tear down some statues.

00:17:36.000 Now, he has some slips where he ends up showing his radicalism and his complete and total racism when Joe Biden says that you're not a black person if you don't vote for him.

00:17:47.000 I mean, that would be something that a slave owner in the antebellum South would say.

00:17:51.000 But for the most part, Joe Biden is running a very careful, moderate campaign.

00:17:56.000 Now, there's a lot of, there's a lot of, let's say, vulnerabilities in running a campaign like that.

00:18:02.000 A lot of vulnerabilities and a lot of there's a lot of chance there and a lot of risk.

00:18:07.000 And it's not all in Biden's favor, but it's definitely the safe way to run a campaign.

00:18:11.000 So I want to play for you an ad that Joe Biden is running on Fox News.

00:18:16.000 It's a really good ad.

00:18:17.000 I have Fox running all throughout the day, and I've seen this ad a couple times, and I turn it on, and the visuals are pretty good.

00:18:22.000 I obviously can't show you the visuals here, but the audio, it shows about uniting America and bringing America together.

00:18:28.000 I can tell you from my dealings and my experience with a lot of suburban voters, this message is resonating with them.

00:18:34.000 Play tape.

00:18:35.000 I know so many Americans are suffering.

00:18:38.000 Suffering loss of a loved one, suffering economic hardship.

00:18:43.000 A country is crying out for leadership.

00:18:45.000 Leadership that can unite us.

00:18:47.000 Leadership that brings us together.

00:18:49.000 That's what the presidency is.

00:18:51.000 The duty to care, to care for all of us, not just those who vote for us, but all of us.

00:18:57.000 And I promise you this: I won't traffic in fear and division.

00:19:01.000 I won't fan the flames of hate.

00:19:03.000 I'll seek to heal the racial wounds that have long plagued our country, not use them for political gain.

00:19:10.000 I'll do my job, and I will take responsibility.

00:19:13.000 I won't blame others.

00:19:15.000 You know, I've said from the outset of this election that we're in the battle for the soul of this nation, but we believe, and maybe most importantly, who we want to be, it's all at stake.

00:19:26.000 We stand together, finally as one America, we'll rise stronger than we were before.

00:19:32.000 I'm Joe Biden, and I approve this message.

00:19:35.000 So, Joe Biden is strategically looking at the Donald Trump movement, not as a coalition, but as different parts that he can peel away.

00:19:47.000 And Ezra also puts this in the article that Joe Biden thinks he can splinter away certain parts of the Trump movement.

00:19:53.000 And the data shows that he's exactly right.

00:19:56.000 Ezra also says this: Joe Biden is not widely loved.

00:20:00.000 He's significantly less loathed than Trump, however.

00:20:03.000 Political scientist Michael Tesler notes, you can even see the gap even among the two candidate supporters.

00:20:09.000 This is super interesting.

00:20:11.000 80% of Biden supporters have a very unfavorable view of Trump, while only 53% of Trump supporters have a very unfavorable view of Biden.

00:20:21.000 So basically, the energy behind Biden, if you meet a Biden supporter, 80% of people that say they're voting for Joe Biden do not like Donald Trump.

00:20:30.000 53% of people that are supporting Trump say that they don't like Joe Biden.

00:20:36.000 That means that 47% of Trump supporters, they don't mind Biden.

00:20:41.000 They don't consider him to be a threat.

00:20:43.000 Unfortunately, a lot of the Trump energy in 2016 was anti-Hillary Clinton energy.

00:20:49.000 Ezra continued by saying this, the low enthusiasm, however, for Biden is at least partly a choice the Biden campaign has made.

00:20:58.000 Super well put by Ezra Klein, the high IQ Marxist from Vox, where the Biden campaign is actually making a conscious decision to get away from Democrat-based politics of Cortez, Elon Omar, Rashida Talib, Ayanna Presley.

00:21:14.000 He finishes the paragraph by saying, and perhaps they have made the right one.

00:21:19.000 I at least like the humility in Ezra's writing actually there right now.

00:21:22.000 Perhaps he doesn't say, of course they've made the right one.

00:21:24.000 I think that he's actually opening the door that this might not work for Joe Biden.

00:21:28.000 And here's an example is that there were no Biden signs at all in the BLM protests and riots. 0.58

00:21:28.000 I agree with that. 0.58

00:21:34.000 We've talked about that at length here multiple times in the Charlie Kirk show.

00:21:38.000 We were the first program to mention this.

00:21:41.000 You would think that if there was a movement to try to effectuate social change in a country and how racist you are, you would think that they would connect that very movement with the election that's 150 days away, with all those cardboard signs that you are making.

00:21:54.000 You would think they would take one of those cardboard signs and say, let's go vote for Joe or Joe Biden for president, or now it's time to rise up for Biden.

00:22:02.000 If it was Bernie Sanders on the ballot, every single one of those people on the streets supporting BLM Inc. and the arson, they would take out signs that would say, Bernie Sanders today, Bernie Sanders forever, or Chairman Sanders for president in eternity, or whatever type of Marxist rallying cry would get them excited.

00:22:24.000 This is also why vote by mail is a really big deal.

00:22:28.000 It takes enthusiasm to get in the car and go to the polls, and data shows this, to walk through rain or to snow or to wait in line to get off the couch.

00:22:38.000 Vote by mail takes far less effort.

00:22:41.000 And in Oregon, we have seen an entire state that does vote by mail.

00:22:45.000 Nearly 76% of the registered electorate ends up voting, which ends up going to show that more Democrats are able to ballot harvest, and enthusiasm means next to nothing in the state of Oregon.

00:22:56.000 Instead, it means who can promise the people the most amount of stuff and then who can collect the ballots better and arguably and fraudulently fill them in for certain people.

00:23:06.000 Now, there are a significant number of people planning to vote for Biden who literally have no idea that there is anything wrong with him.

00:23:14.000 I want to say that again.

00:23:15.000 There is a significant number of people who plan to vote for Joe Biden that have no idea that he's in mental decline because the activist media has not covered it at all.

00:23:25.000 The longer it goes before those people are finally aware, the less time there is for them to want to change their mind.

00:23:34.000 And also, the less options there are for changing it.

00:23:38.000 Now, look, he's not risking exposing that reality of cognitive decline to America.

00:23:44.000 That's why, while Trump is doing hour-long interviews with Chris Wallace, Joe Biden is announcing that he will do long-form interviews that are heavily edited with Barack Obama.

00:23:55.000 This makes the choice for vice president the most critical selection for vice president since John Fitzgerald Kennedy in 1960.

00:24:03.000 And I'd say the second would be Barack Obama's vice president selection in 2008.

00:24:07.000 That was a very important vice presidential selection because the country was not as culturally leftist in 2008 as it is today.

00:24:15.000 There was no BLM, there was no Me Too, there was no gun-grabbing movement.

00:24:18.000 The left was nowhere near as powerful in 2008 as they are today.

00:24:23.000 George Soros was not throwing money around like he is now, where he's throwing around a billion dollars a year to help destroy our country.

00:24:30.000 And so a lot of people thought of Barack Obama as an insurgent radical liberal who hated America.

00:24:34.000 So who did he pick?

00:24:35.000 He picked someone who was a familiar, described moderate Joe Biden in 2008.

00:24:42.000 So it's kind of very interesting how Joe Biden was part of a very consequential vice presidential selection in 2008.

00:24:48.000 And if you read the book by David Plough, Audacity to Win, I encourage you to read it, they really poured over what kind of a vice president they wanted for Barack Obama, and they concluded someone who at least comes across as a moderate would be very appealing.

00:25:01.000 His vice president has to be someone that can look and feel presidential, not just in theory, but actually be presidential.

00:25:10.000 Any undecided or unmotivated voters are going to come to know that Biden is not going to be able to govern in full capacity.

00:25:16.000 Therefore, the vice presidential choice can tip them by making them feel like they're really voting for the vice president, not for Joe Biden.

00:25:24.000 Now, with that being said, and pointing to the key motivator for Biden voters, Joe Biden needs to make a vice presidential selection that people will love.

00:25:33.000 Since a typical Biden voter is going to be voting against the president United States, he can pick up more voters by giving them a vice president they want to vote for.

00:25:43.000 Now, there are two major motivators for voting: loving one candidate or really hating the other.

00:25:50.000 Biden has a chance to get some from both of those categories.

00:25:54.000 I'm going to say this again: 80% of Biden supporters have an unfavorable view of Trump, while only 53% of current Trump supporters have an unfavorable view of Biden.

00:26:04.000 Now, with Mike Pence as a very neutral selection for vice president, President Trump can't pick up much from Mike Pence.

00:26:11.000 I love Mike Pence.

00:26:12.000 Mike Pence is a friend of mine, but he's a very steady pick.

00:26:15.000 He's not going to get you a 10-point increase.

00:26:17.000 He's not going to get you a 10-point decline.

00:26:20.000 He's very disciplined.

00:26:21.000 He's incredibly loyal.

00:26:23.000 And he is the answer to a lot of the lack of, quote, steadiness in the White House.

00:26:29.000 I actually think that the more we use Vice President Mike Pence on interviews, the more we use Vice President Mike Pence in advertisements, the better.

00:26:38.000 There's also a huge, massive, unutilized asset for Donald Trump that you guys are going to hear about later in the show.

00:26:48.000 Donald Trump has a massive weapon that, for whatever reason, is not being used, not being utilized.

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00:28:35.000 Now, understand, it's really hard to attack Biden with someone as aggressive as Trump.

00:28:41.000 And I think the risk for Joe Biden is picking a vice president that is too radical to basically, he has to really thread the needle carefully here, Joe Biden does.

00:28:51.000 He has to make sure not to pick a moderate to stunt turnout of his radical base.

00:28:56.000 And he has to make sure he doesn't pick someone too radical to be able to blunt the support amongst more moderate voters.

00:29:03.000 That's why I think that people like Susan Rice or Val Demings are in the running to become the vice presidential choice.

00:29:10.000 Now, with the importance of the vice presidential selection and given his prior statements about promising a woman minority candidate, it becomes very clear that Joe Biden and his candidacy all hinges on his selection for VP.

00:29:24.000 Now, just so you understand, if Joe Biden selected Michelle Obama to be his running mate, I hate to say game over, but it's pretty close.

00:29:33.000 Just as a realistic, incredibly loyal Trump supporter who has defended Trump at every single turn, and I will continue to because he's done such a service to our country and I consider him a friend, it will be hard for Donald Trump to win up against a Biden-Michelle Obama duo.

00:29:50.000 Do not dismiss that.

00:29:51.000 It's very realistic.

00:29:53.000 She would check all the boxes.

00:29:54.000 She would bring the love vote to his side and appeal to all the people in the country who call themselves independent, who are really, honestly, political simpletons driven by feelings and optics.

00:30:06.000 You want to take the next three months off, Joe, and just kind of watch Hulu and Netflix?

00:30:13.000 Sign up Michelle Obama to be your vice president.

00:30:15.000 If that happens, move to South Dakota.

00:30:18.000 That's all I can say.

00:30:20.000 If Michelle Obama becomes the VP, I'm not saying Donald Trump has no choice, and we will fight as if we've never fought before, but it will make it incredibly more difficult.

00:30:28.000 Here's what Biden needs to do, though, at the convention.

00:30:30.000 Here's the statement that he needs to do.

00:30:32.000 He needs to say this.

00:30:34.000 My fellow Americans, I know that I'm not my prime.

00:30:37.000 I know that concerns have been raised about my overall health.

00:30:40.000 I assure you that I'm fit and ready to govern.

00:30:44.000 That said, I'm here tonight to pledge to you that if I am elected, I will only serve one term.

00:30:50.000 Our country is so greatly divided that it needs someone with experience and stability to help it heal and bring people back together.

00:30:56.000 And I am that man.

00:30:57.000 I can do that job and will do that job.

00:30:59.000 I will turn over a new and vibrant America to my successor.

00:31:02.000 If I was designing the downfall of Donald Trump, that speech alone, saying he'll only serve one term, kind of dismisses the mental cognitive decline issue, which is a huge issue for Donald Trump.

00:31:13.000 It also makes the focus on the vice presidential nominee and whether or not Joe Biden serving one term or two terms.

00:31:20.000 I mean, we know the Democrats are liars, so he could always reverse it in the future.

00:31:23.000 I mean, Barack Obama reversed his position on gay marriage and was given a complete pass by the media for it.

00:31:29.000 A lot of people would then just vote on a healing of America less than for Donald Trump versus Joe Biden.

00:31:34.000 Now, beyond this, Joe Biden really needs to make sure that the campaign season is as short as possible.

00:31:40.000 And the press, of course, will cover for him for that.

00:31:43.000 And that his interactions with people are as spontaneous as minimal.

00:31:47.000 No photo lines, no Joe the Plumber moments, no Michael Dukakis in a tank moment.

00:31:53.000 Shelter in place.

00:31:54.000 Do not campaign.

00:31:56.000 No risk at all.

00:31:57.000 And you can be certain that he gets more confused as the day wears on.

00:32:02.000 The more Joe Biden, the more money Joe Biden raises, the more staffers he'll have around him and the more protected he will be.

00:32:08.000 So here's what Donald Trump needs to do.

00:32:10.000 I want to make it very clear.

00:32:11.000 We must get Donald Trump re-elected.

00:32:13.000 It is so important for the future of our republic, our country, and everything we care about, our First Amendment freedoms, our Second Amendment freedoms, our history, the country our children are going to be raised in.

00:32:24.000 I think it's very fair to say that the president and his political popularity has declined since the race riots and the lockdowns and the virus was put in place.

00:32:34.000 Increasingly, in some ways, and a lot of people are saying this, and I'm just a neutral observer on this point.

00:32:40.000 Some people are saying that he is being overhandled by political professionals.

00:32:46.000 And I know some of these people, but I think the more we allow Donald Trump to be Donald Trump with his instincts, the better the campaign will go.

00:32:54.000 I think first and foremost, here's what President Trump has to do.

00:32:57.000 He needs to make his base and those around him in the ideological circle he represents fight for him again.

00:33:04.000 I think he actually needs confrontation, healthy confrontation with the other side.

00:33:09.000 Everything about the other side's behavior over the last four years has been confrontational.

00:33:13.000 I think one of the best moments of the Trump presidency is when he brought Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi into the Oval Office, brought the cameras in, and called them out on their nonsense on immigration.

00:33:23.000 Trump's numbers went up after that.

00:33:25.000 They did.

00:33:26.000 So this means that as a first move, Donald Trump has to abandon the current embracing of DACA and the foreign worker student visa issue.

00:33:35.000 I'm a massive Donald Trump supporter, and I disagree with him completely on trying to do some sort of DACA deal before November.

00:33:43.000 I just don't support it.

00:33:45.000 Donald Trump is playing to a myth that Hispanic voters will somehow flock to him over this.

00:33:50.000 They absolutely won't.

00:33:51.000 A significant number of Hispanic voters who are actually legal citizens do not support the preferential treatment for illegals.

00:33:58.000 What ends up happening, though, is that the Democrats overpromise and they're able to do the free stuff Olympics a lot better than Donald Trump.

00:34:07.000 What a lot of Hispanic voters do want, unfortunately, and the polling reflects this, is they want more government programs.

00:34:14.000 They are, however, socially conservative.

00:34:17.000 You can win on the issues of life and marriage and religious freedom.

00:34:20.000 Donald Trump's base takes a DACA deal as a major betrayal.

00:34:26.000 Donald Trump needs to give confidence to his base that he is not going to betray them on the issue of immigration.

00:34:32.000 It's that simple.

00:34:33.000 So, beyond that specific point, the president should approach America with his convention speech by giving us a list of the 2016 promises and breaking it into three separate categories.

00:34:45.000 What I've done, what I will do between now and January by executive order, and what I will do over the next four years.

00:34:54.000 And so, those are the three categories: what I've done, what I will do while I'm still president, like what I'm doing right now, what I'm doing as I'm president, and what I will do over the next four years.

00:35:04.000 The campaign needs that message.

00:35:06.000 We have the podcast we did, Think Big, How to Save America, five big ideas to make America dream again, make America self-sufficient, make our kids love America again.

00:35:16.000 I think Donald Trump needs to get back to his Mount Rushmore speech and the State of the Union speech. 0.58

00:35:21.000 State of the Union speech was one of the best speeches that he gave, and we forgot about it, obviously, because of the China flu and the lockdowns and the race riots. 0.57

00:35:29.000 That would be a way to wake up people and give them something real to focus on.

00:35:34.000 President Trump needs to step up to the podium and give a speech telling the American people the truth about the China flu and encourage them to fight back against state restrictions.

00:35:43.000 In a lot of different ways, we can learn from Andrew Cuomo.

00:35:46.000 I think Andrew Cuomo's entire delivery, the way that it was done, how it was televised, him sitting down, not standing, I actually think aesthetically was much more approachable.

00:35:57.000 I think the idea of a standing press conference, it just feels too authoritative.

00:36:02.000 It feels too dictatorial.

00:36:04.000 What made Andrew Cuomo's press conferences so popular, despite the fact that Andrew Cuomo made a bad decision at every single term, of course, the media covered for him, is that he was sitting down, he was almost leveling with the listener, right?

00:36:17.000 Because think about it.

00:36:18.000 If you're watching television, are you sitting down or are you standing watching television?

00:36:22.000 You're probably sitting.

00:36:24.000 So, if you're watching a leader try to tell you bad news, you always want to be sitting.

00:36:28.000 It's something that you don't always think about, but this is why FDR's fireside chats are so popular.

00:36:33.000 That's why, in an address from the Oval Office, the president is sitting delivering that address, not standing.

00:36:38.000 Typically, when a president is giving bad news, you always want to be sitting when you are giving bad news, always, because you feel as if you're looking eye to eye with the listener.

00:36:48.000 And look, I'm a big student of basically how things are translated on television.

00:36:55.000 And it's basically the television matrix is something a lot of Republicans do not understand, but the Democrats do.

00:37:01.000 You know why?

00:37:02.000 Well, it's because Andrew Cuomo goes, picks up the phone and calls Matt Damon.

00:37:06.000 And he calls George Clooney.

00:37:08.000 And they would have called Harvey Weinstein before he got arrested for rape.

00:37:12.000 But a lot of these guys deal in the cinematic arts.

00:37:15.000 And they probably gave Andrew Cuomo the advice: do not stand up and give your press briefings.

00:37:20.000 Sit down and level with the listener.

00:37:24.000 Super effective.

00:37:25.000 Incredibly effective.

00:37:27.000 Give very broad hand gestures.

00:37:29.000 Do you notice that Andrew Cuomo and his very popular press briefings, despite the fact that Andrew Cuomo is a very immoral, incredibly disastrous governor?

00:37:38.000 I'm not defending him.

00:37:39.000 I'm just saying that from a cinematic presentation standpoint, they're incredibly effective.

00:37:45.000 He would do these very big hand gestures, almost try to make it seem as if he's being magnanimous, right?

00:37:50.000 That is if he's trying to level with us, that we're all going to get through this together.

00:37:54.000 I believe in the New York spirit.

00:37:56.000 Very effective.

00:37:58.000 And for example, when you give good news, you stand like Barack Obama did when he announced that Osama bin Laden was killed.

00:38:05.000 He got great advice from some Hollywood sycophant that said, make sure you stand because you can declare victory.

00:38:11.000 When you're in a struggle and the people watching you are in the struggle and they're sitting on their couch, you shouldn't be standing as if you're celebrating something.

00:38:19.000 It just feels too confrontational.

00:38:21.000 With that being said, when the president does his briefings, he should be sitting.

00:38:25.000 He should be sitting in front of a couple PowerPoints, and he needs to do the same sort of gestures that Cuomo did and needs to be more approachable.

00:38:35.000 My own two cents on that.

00:38:36.000 So, when he does these kind of briefings, which he should do, he needs to be very honest.

00:38:40.000 And the message on the virus should be this: a virus cannot be contained by governmental action.

00:38:47.000 We've done a lot, and we will do more.

00:38:51.000 Politicians on both parties are being unfairly judged on a viral infection.

00:38:58.000 I am going to protect first principles and freedom.

00:39:01.000 I actually believe that our citizens are incredibly responsible.

00:39:06.000 Because of that, I'm going to tell you that you might die if you're old and you get this virus.

00:39:12.000 If you're young and you get this virus, you will probably not die.

00:39:16.000 I trust you to make the right decision.

00:39:18.000 The same way I trust you to make the right decision of whether or not you are going to drive like a lunatic on the highway, the same way that I trust you to make the right decision when you have a semi-automatic rifle that you might use for something completely unspeakably immoral and evil.

00:39:33.000 The same way I trust you to be able to have a beer, or the same way I trust you to be able to make decisions that other people might not make.

00:39:42.000 So, now that you have the facts, and we'll keep on giving you the facts, act responsibly.

00:39:46.000 We're a nation of mature adults that look after our children.

00:39:51.000 That should be the message.

00:39:52.000 In fact, I think that message is a 50, 60, 70% popular message.

00:39:57.000 And so, I think the more that we communicate that, the better.

00:40:00.000 President Trump needs to warn the people what the state and local officials are doing to them will only get worse if Joe Biden is elected.

00:40:08.000 And he should encourage the opening of America from a national level.

00:40:12.000 President Trump should not step back and think that local unrest will translate into votes for him without placing himself as the face of rebellion.

00:40:22.000 Every single local election, including Mike Garcia's successful race in California, has been a referendum on the lockdowns in the favor of freedom.

00:40:32.000 The more the president acts and the more he's able to show what he's doing, not just tell what he's doing, the better.

00:40:39.000 This is the other point.

00:40:40.000 I think President Trump, I have some other very kind of more funny suggestions and more real suggestions.

00:40:47.000 There are three concrete things: one that's a little bit lighthearted, one that is just an obvious suggestion, and the third that is the greatest underutilized asset of the Trump movement, the Trump White House, the Trump campaign, and of the United States of America.

00:41:04.000 The first suggestion is: President Trump needs to do as many interviews as possible with lighthearted, fair media that Joe Biden would not be able to survive.

00:41:13.000 Donald Trump should do a three-hour sit-down with Joe Rogan.

00:41:17.000 It would be very combative at times.

00:41:20.000 Joe is open-minded.

00:41:21.000 It's the number one podcast on the planet.

00:41:23.000 But it would also, throughout the podcast, every 30 minutes, Donald Trump needs to say, and guess what?

00:41:28.000 Joe Biden can't do this interview.

00:41:30.000 That sort of contrast would communicate to an open-minded audience that otherwise would have voted for Biden.

00:41:35.000 The American people will tolerate a lot.

00:41:37.000 They will not tolerate a candidate that refuses to go on certain media circuits while the other candidate does.

00:41:44.000 The American people do not have that kind of patience for that.

00:41:46.000 That's number one.

00:41:47.000 The second thing is this.

00:41:48.000 It's a little bit funny.

00:41:50.000 It's lighthearted. 0.59

00:41:51.000 And you guys might think I'm incredibly silly by suggesting it.

00:41:54.000 And I want you to email me your thoughts at freedom at charliekirk.com on this.

00:41:58.000 President Trump needs a dog.

00:42:01.000 President Trump is the first president since William Howard Taft to not have a dog.

00:42:05.000 Dogs are more popular than human beings in most parts of the country.

00:42:09.000 Some people care more about their dogs than they do about their adult children.

00:42:12.000 If you think I'm kidding, look at some of the polling.

00:42:15.000 Americans give more money at times in certain counties across the country to dog shelters than to homeless shelters.

00:42:23.000 Dogs communicate deeply to a part of the human soul that is even hard to articulate.

00:42:27.000 I love my dogs more than I can put into words.

00:42:30.000 So, Donald Trump is the first president since William Howard Taft in over 100 years not to have a dog.

00:42:36.000 It can't hurt.

00:42:37.000 Let's put it that way.

00:42:38.000 In fact, I think he should get a rescue dog.

00:42:40.000 I think the dog should be named Hillary. 0.60

00:42:43.000 So I think he should bring Hillary into the White House.

00:42:46.000 And I think he could do a series of very funny, light-hearted vignettes with Hillary the rescue dog next to him and say, Hillary, looks like you did make it to the White House after all. 0.69

00:42:57.000 Even better vignette.

00:42:58.000 He could turn to Hillary, the dog, and say, Hillary, you're the only one in D.C. that actually likes me.

00:43:04.000 Everyone else is trying to get rid of me.

00:43:06.000 This sort of lightheartedness is actually a connection to the bigger point of why Donald Trump needs a dog.

00:43:11.000 It's kind of a silly suggestion, but it's a very real suggestion.

00:43:13.000 Is that the more Donald Trump can be framed as the comedic human being that is unafraid to be self-deprecating with his witty sense of humor, the more his popularity will go up?

00:43:25.000 I want to see Donald Trump the human being, not Donald Trump the politician automaton.

00:43:30.000 And Joe Biden can't play on that terrain.

00:43:33.000 Joe Biden can't have the lighthearted moment with the dog.

00:43:37.000 Joe Biden would have the dog and he would start doing something inappropriate to the dog and you'd have to censor it and you'd have to end the filming and say, Joe Biden, that is not a young teenage child.

00:43:45.000 Stop it.

00:43:47.000 Joe Biden, stop licking the dog. 0.71

00:43:50.000 Joe Biden, that is not a 14-year-old.

00:43:52.000 Stop.

00:43:54.000 It would create a perfect juxtaposition to both.

00:43:56.000 This goes to my third recommendation, which is a very real and serious recommendation.

00:44:02.000 The greatest underutilized asset in American political history.

00:44:07.000 Want to guess what it is?

00:44:09.000 Pause this podcast and just think: what is the greatest underutilized asset in the White House?

00:44:14.000 And the president is, what is it? 1.00

00:44:16.000 Melania Trump.

00:44:19.000 Melania Trump is the greatest asset that, for whatever reason, is just not being used enough.

00:44:25.000 And I've made so many recommendations and suggestions, and maybe there's something I'm missing.

00:44:29.000 But you have a legal immigrant to this country who's literally a supermodel, incredibly articulate, super well-read, speaks six different languages, is super popular with the one demographic you're doing poorly with suburban women.

00:44:44.000 And why are we not using Melania Trump all the time?

00:44:47.000 Like all the time? 1.00

00:44:49.000 Put her on every single magazine.

00:44:50.000 Have her do interviews at Daily Caller and Breitbart.

00:44:53.000 Have her tweet more.

00:44:54.000 Have her do more funny videos. 0.99

00:44:55.000 Melania Trump, I've had the opportunity to get to know her. 1.00

00:44:58.000 She's awesome.

00:44:59.000 She's one of the coolest people I've ever met in my life.

00:45:02.000 And I feel as if we have this whole idea of promoting Michelle Obama, and we don't promote Melania Trump.

00:45:08.000 I mean, it would be one thing if Melania Trump was just not Melania Trump.

00:45:14.000 Okay, let's just put it this way.

00:45:16.000 Let's put it, let's say, let's just put, let's just put it this way, okay? 1.00

00:45:18.000 If Melania Trump was overweight, didn't speak any other languages, and would just kind of a schlep, okay.

00:45:26.000 But Melania is one of the most beautiful, incredible people ever in the history of the United States government. 0.99

00:45:34.000 And we as a conservative movement just aren't using her enough.

00:45:38.000 And I've tried, I'm going to keep on trying.

00:45:39.000 I think Melania Trump is one of the greatest assets that the Trump campaign needs to use.

00:45:48.000 Every day there should be a Melania Trump update. 0.91

00:45:50.000 Every single day, she should go to a different suburban district across the country, do all the local media, read to local kids, whatever it takes. 1.00

00:45:59.000 The more Melania does, the better the Trump movement will do.

00:46:04.000 So, and that kind of goes to these other recommendations.

00:46:07.000 The president needs to insist on in-person and normal format debates and allow for no exceptions, period.

00:46:14.000 He needs to get Joe Biden to commit to debating in person right now.

00:46:17.000 Any controlled format will be used by the networks and the moderators to help Biden.

00:46:22.000 No Zoom calls, no WebEx, no Skype calls, two human beings in a room next to each other that can show the difference physically of Joe Biden versus Donald Trump.

00:46:34.000 Here's the final point of what Donald Trump needs to do.

00:46:37.000 He needs to make America a referendum issue.

00:46:39.000 He does.

00:46:40.000 President Trump needs to make it a referendum on whether or not you believe in America or you don't believe in America.

00:46:45.000 He will lose the popular vote on this issue because a majority of the popular voters do not believe in America.

00:46:52.000 However, 60% of voters in Wisconsin believe in America.

00:46:55.000 70% of voters in North Carolina believe in America.

00:46:59.000 80% probably in Iowa.

00:47:01.000 If this is a referendum on America, Donald Trump wins.

00:47:04.000 It's that simple.

00:47:06.000 Embrace yourself in the symbology of our country.

00:47:09.000 Drape yourself in the flag.

00:47:11.000 Hug and kiss that flag every single day. 0.99

00:47:13.000 In fact, have Melania come and hug and kiss the flag. 0.99

00:47:16.000 With the dog next to you, okay? 1.00

00:47:18.000 With Hillary next to you.

00:47:20.000 The more that Donald Trump embraces the history of our country, the more his popularity will go up.

00:47:25.000 His Mount Rushmore speech was phenomenal, terrific, off the charts.

00:47:28.000 One of the best speeches a president has given in the last couple decades.

00:47:32.000 The more that President Trump embraces that, the better.

00:47:34.000 And that goes to another suggestion.

00:47:36.000 Donald Trump needs to be traveling more.

00:47:38.000 The more the president travels, the better he does.

00:47:40.000 Donald Trump is that old expression that movement is life.

00:47:44.000 President Trump is not at his best when he is just in the White House every single day.

00:47:48.000 The president needs to be in every single state across the country.

00:47:51.000 I sent a suggestion in that the president needs to do a 50-state tour in 50 days.

00:47:56.000 The president needs to visit all 50 states.

00:47:58.000 He'll be the first president to do it since Richard Nixon.

00:48:02.000 Show every single state what he's done for them with ventilator supply and masks and PPE.

00:48:07.000 It gets him going.

00:48:08.000 It creates a new cycle that is favorable for Donald Trump.

00:48:10.000 It makes the press exhausted and hard to keep up with him.

00:48:13.000 He'll be able to go to military bases and be able to show all the funding that he delivered for them.

00:48:17.000 He'll be able to go to national parks and show the beauty and the majesty of our country.

00:48:21.000 While Joe Biden hides in the basement, Donald Trump does a 50-state tour.

00:48:25.000 That is a great juxtaposition.

00:48:27.000 And he brings Joe Rogan on the plane with him.

00:48:29.000 And while the plane is flying to Alaska, he does a three-hour interview with Rogan on the plane.

00:48:34.000 That would make some news.

00:48:35.000 Meanwhile, Hillary the dog comes in and Donald Trump tells the dog to sit and she does.

00:48:40.000 Here's the point.

00:48:41.000 We got to get more creative, okay?

00:48:42.000 It's not just about running ads and trying to splinter groups.

00:48:45.000 President Trump became president because he did things he was not supposed to do.

00:48:50.000 He brought Bill Clinton's rape victims to the front of a presidential debate that all but killed the Billy Bush issue.

00:48:58.000 President Trump took a picture with a Cinco de Mayo bowl with a thumbs up on Cinco De Mayo and said, I love Hispanics.

00:49:04.000 And his number with Hispanics went up. 1.00

00:49:06.000 President Trump tweeted a week up from the election that crooked Hillary is going to destroy the voting integrity of our country. 0.99

00:49:13.000 The kind of off-the-wall creative thinking that made this country the greatest country ever to exist in the history of the world must be employed by the Trump campaign. 0.99

00:49:22.000 The more ideas, the better.

00:49:23.000 And yes, that includes a dog.

00:49:25.000 It includes Melania Trump.

00:49:26.000 It includes putting Joe Biden on defense, and it includes a 50-state tour.

00:49:31.000 Email me your thoughts, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:49:33.000 I'm pushing for these privately and publicly.

00:49:35.000 And the more that you guys support this podcast at charliekirk.com slash support, when you support this podcast, we're able to get these ideas in front of more people and hopefully get the Trump campaign and the White House to assume some of these ideas.

00:49:46.000 Some of these ideas might be really good.

00:49:48.000 Some of them might be a little off the wall, but that's the whole point of having ideas.

00:49:51.000 You exercise them.

00:49:52.000 You test them.

00:49:53.000 And you're able to see what works for the betterment of the republic.

00:49:56.000 This halftime report, I think, is the most honest report you are going to get on the state of the 2020 race.

00:50:02.000 But make no mistake, I am not an impartial observer.

00:50:05.000 President Trump must get reelected.

00:50:07.000 President Trump must win.

00:50:09.000 And another issue that I think is a very serious issue, President Trump must get on the right issue of these hospital visitation rights.

00:50:16.000 Right now, I know someone on a ventilator that is struggling significantly health-wise, and I cannot go visit them in the hospital.

00:50:23.000 I've heard of four different examples of people that lost their spouses of 30-plus years that had to say goodbye to their spouse, their loved one, their husband, and their wife over FaceTime because they weren't able to visit their spouse.

00:50:35.000 President Trump should come out and say, every hospital in the country should have a waiver, and you should be able to put on a hazbat suit and go see a loved one in your room if you so choose.

00:50:45.000 It is immoral, it is evil, and it is wrong that we have allowed COVID patients or people in hospitals that have non-COVID-related illnesses to be completely quarantined and have no visitation rights whatsoever.

00:50:57.000 It is disgusting and it is awful.

00:51:00.000 President Trump, I think, would be rewarded politically by coming out on the correct side of that issue.

00:51:05.000 We have to get President Trump re-elected.

00:51:07.000 The more we talk about these issues, the more that we are able to articulate these issues, the more that we will be rewarded politically.

00:51:15.000 And then we can get President Trump re-elected and defeat Joe Biden and his group of cronies, China syncophants, and Joe Biden's very questionable record both of his touching of young women, his enriching of his family on behalf of the American middle class, and also his radical ideas and the radical group of AOC, Rashida Talib, Elon Omar, Angela Davis, and others that just can't wait to take power if Joe Biden wins.

00:51:39.000 Please get involved with Turning PointUSA.

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00:51:49.000 Email me your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:51:51.000 Your response to this episode, I'd love your ideas of what you think Donald Trump needs to do or what Joe Biden needs to do so we're able to spot it and judge it fairly and completely.

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00:52:24.000 Thank you guys so much for listening to this program.

00:52:27.000 We got to get President Trump re-elected.

00:52:29.000 Send me your thoughts that I can share with him at freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:52:33.000 God bless you.

00:52:34.000 God bless America.

00:52:35.000 We have to win.

00:52:36.000 Biden has to lose.

00:52:38.000 Thanks so much.

The Charlie Kirk Show - July 24, 2020

Trump’s Most Under-Utilized Resource - The 2020 Presidential Election Halftime Report

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