00:00:00.000Hey everybody, today at the Charlie Kirk show, Austin Smith and Tyler Boyer from tpaction.com joins us, Turning Point Action to respond to some of the latest stories that have been published about us.
00:01:02.000His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:01:10.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:02:16.000And everybody within the sound of our voices here has to understand that probably the biggest story from 2020 that nobody talked about was complacency of people thinking former red states that were going red and places that Donald Trump had won.
00:02:39.000Like a bunch of places were surprisingly tight.
00:02:42.000And that was because Democrats were focused on doing, sending in mercenaries, as you put it, sending in people to get final votes because they can tally votes because of the early voting process now.
00:03:29.000But I think they're desperate enough where they will do anything to win.
00:03:33.000And that's the key difference between Democrats and Republicans in most places, particularly red states, is they'll do anything to win while our people are like, oh, no, it's going to be fine.
00:03:42.000We have the best elections that have ever been facilitated ever.
00:03:45.000It's like, no, Governor DC, that's not true.
00:03:48.000We have, there's no perfect election in America.
00:04:44.000Well, guys, it's because the Democrats have been smarter about vote harvesting, about vote tabulation, about tabulating, figuring out exactly what they need in order to get themselves barely across the finish line.
00:05:05.000I mean, Michigan is a disaster right now because the election law and codes, the law is going the wrong direction in Michigan.
00:05:12.000And so it's not getting easier in a place like Michigan for us to stop and prevent people from cheating.
00:05:19.000Well, and so this is important that, so just you guys all understand, this is why when you hold your vote back and wait for election day, you're throwing off their modeling.
00:05:26.000So what there's been about 1.29 million votes cast so far in the state of Arizona.
00:06:05.000Is that fewer votes have been cast in places across Arizona because more Republicans and conservative independents are holding back their votes.
00:06:14.000And therefore, we could conceivably see a 600,000, 700,000 person turnout, which would throw off all the models.
00:06:21.000Look, Charlie, if we hit 600,000 right now on the direction we're going.
00:08:39.000I would do it if I was a New Yorker, but that's going to set the tone for the entire night.
00:08:45.000There are four congressional districts in Long Island, and it is possible that Republicans go four out of four.
00:08:51.000And if there is a huge turnout in New York, and I think it's so interesting, a competitive governor's race in New York has misdirected resources.
00:08:58.000It's also going to help the downballot Republicans, where if the, for example, if Cuomo was up 10 points or up 20 points, it wouldn't be as much.
00:09:06.000We could, if the night goes well, if people are showing up in big numbers and coming out of the rivers and coming out of the valleys, as Donald Trump would say, it is possible that New York has more Republicans in the delegation than Democrats.
00:09:20.000But the only way this happens, everybody, is an unprecedented election day turnout where you need to do this.
00:09:28.000And then throughout the day, you need to find 10 other people that haven't yet voted that day and just nag them and say, you got to go vote.
00:09:35.000And it's a really interesting thing where the Democrats have this incredibly sophisticated modeling and they have early voting and all this stuff where we as Republicans basically like get everyone excited and say, just go do the thing.
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00:12:07.000The funny part is, is this the story that's in the Arizona Republic and then also that came out WAPO today is it's really a story about the grassroots.
00:12:47.000Because at the end of the day, it's none of us control the grassroots.
00:12:52.000Charlie Kirk doesn't control the grassroots.
00:12:54.000Donald Trump doesn't control the grassroots.
00:12:56.000Ronald Reagan didn't control the grassroots.
00:12:58.000Austin Smith doesn't control the grassroots.
00:13:00.000And the more that you revere and you humble yourself to accept the fact that the grassroots is usually right and that they're the heartbeat and the engine for the entire movement, and you respect that, then you have more success as a party.
00:13:23.000And now there's a Washington Post story out today, this Arizona Republic story, one after the other, obviously coordinated, all about Turning Point Action and how they claim we've taken over the Arizona Republican Party.
00:13:33.000I mean, that's, they can say whatever they want.
00:13:42.000And to Tyler's point is that when candidates and party leaders respect and revere the grassroots, that's a good thing.
00:13:49.000All we're trying to do at Turning Point Action, what we've done over the last couple of years, is show the grassroots and show other leaders that this is how it's supposed to be.
00:13:56.000We're supposed to take our cues from the people that are in the precincts every single weekend, knocking doors and registering voters who do the grunt work in the non-election years.
00:14:04.000And that's not a hostile takeover of the party.
00:14:06.000That's leading by an example that this is what the Republican Party should be doing.
00:14:10.000And for the longest time, the Democrats were very grassroots organized and oriented, and they're not that way anymore.
00:14:16.000And thankfully, for groups like Turning Point Action that actually go into the neighborhoods and go into the precincts and attend local meetings, this is a good thing.
00:14:23.000The party is supposed to be grassroots driven.
00:14:27.000It's actually the opposite of hostile because it's actually the most peaceful, and this is proven by history, right?
00:14:33.000The Republican Party is actually run and operationally, and so is the Democrat Party, by the way, in our state, anyways, and in many places, is run like as a Republican form of government, right?
00:14:47.000So in the state of Arizona, you have a representative model through precinct committeemen who represent the party at all levels down to the precinct level.
00:14:57.000And when you respect that and you actually engage in that, you have the most peace in your party.
00:15:08.000Like literally, we fight every single day about like this and that and like little things, right?
00:15:12.000Like we talk about things, we discuss and we have, we belabor these, these issues.
00:15:17.000But the reality is this, is that when you have a well-represented party, meaning a person from every precinct, many people from every precinct representing what the Republican Party is, you have more peace because there's more understanding of what the party is.
00:15:31.000And to one more thing, Charlie, is that earlier this year, the state legislature in Arizona tried to eliminate precinct committee men elections.
00:15:38.000And it was stopped like that because the grassroots in Arizona understand how important this level and this form of government is in the party and in our state government.
00:15:48.000And we just wanted to make sure that the people that do the work that carries our party and our nation into a better place, you got to respect those people.
00:15:56.000Well, Charlie, that's the important story, too, that we need to discuss.
00:15:59.000And after this election, we are going to talk about it a lot.
00:16:03.000Arizona is the front lines for the rest of the country.
00:16:06.000And what Rusty Bowers tried to do, and this is why he's no longer in office, what he tried to do was eliminate precinct committeemen.
00:16:12.000He tried to eliminate the precinct spot.
00:16:15.000And there's a reason why they want it.
00:16:16.000You want to talk about hostile takeovers?
00:16:19.000They want a hostile takeover of our country by eliminating the grassroots and the representative voice in your neighborhood.
00:18:00.000And by the way, the day after the election, you could sleep in, you can drink beer, you can do whatever people do and watch sports or whatever, but you got a republic to save Tuesday.
00:18:09.000North Carolina, what's going on, Tyler?
00:19:10.000Look at North Carolina similarly to that.
00:19:12.000It's just North Carolina has more electoral college votes.
00:19:16.000Okay, so what are the races in North Carolina?
00:19:18.000So that race plus it's, I think it's CD1 and CD6 are at play.
00:19:26.000And this is going to be really the indicator to watch early on.
00:19:29.000So we talked, just talked about New York.
00:19:31.000But if I'm looking at the map, I'm looking at New York and I'm looking at North Carolina and I'm saying, what is happening in CD1, CD6, and what's happening with Bo Hines in 13?
00:19:44.000Turning point action of drugs, JR Majewski.
00:19:47.000That's a new district, R plus six right now, but it's a dogfight.
00:19:49.000They don't like JR because he's a conservative outsider.
00:19:52.000The Democrats are pouring a lot of money tickets because I think they've abandoned JD Vance.
00:19:55.000They pulled out all of their statewide funding for that race for the advertisements, but they're really just trying to go after some of the House seats they are.
00:20:03.000It's a Democrat-held seat right now with an incumbent who is, you know, I can't think of her name, but she's obviously Nancy Pelosi, just from Ohio.
00:20:10.000And they're really trying to help her save that seat right now.
00:20:12.000We've had a team in Ohio since the summertime, knocking doors, getting out the vote, registering voters in the summertime.
00:23:44.000If anyone out there is a Trump voter, you now have an extra reason to vote on Tuesday and get every other Trump voter that might be a low-propensity Trump voter to show up because Donald Trump is going to run in 2024.
00:24:07.000If anyone from Donald Trump's world is listening, Donald Trump's super PAC needs to spend some money to try to get this message out, play cut 123.
00:24:14.000And now, in order to make our country successful and safe and glorious, I will very, very, very probably do it again.
00:25:19.000This should motivate you now more than ever to show up, show up big on Tuesday because if we get this across the finish line, America's in, I'm telling you, America's in a more exciting, better place than it's been in 20 years.
00:25:31.000We have the Democrats on the ropes in a very profound way.
00:26:09.000It's too late now, but we got to turn this ship around and then be a spokesperson for the rest of the country to say, don't let this happen to your state.
00:26:16.000Because unfortunately, we had some Republicans asleep at the wheel not understanding the context of this.
00:27:07.000Mitch McConnell does not care about Arizona.
00:27:09.000He doesn't care about getting this over with.
00:27:11.000Instead, he's more concerned, not with Don Boldick, not with all of that.
00:27:15.000No, but he spent $9 million propping up Murkowski against an amazing candidate, Kelly Shabaka.
00:27:23.000And Charlie, I want your audience to understand this.
00:27:25.000And this is the politics of things that most people don't see or understand.
00:27:30.000The amount of money that McConnell raised for a Republican state to take out another Republican is not only dastardly because of the money that he spent on that, but you understand that by him doing that, it signaled millions of other dollars to go to that state to help Murkowski that could have gone places that we needed to win.
00:27:49.000So we're talking about an impact that had rings of probably $20, $30 million plus.
00:27:55.000And this is part of the reason why everyone's so angry at Mitch McConnell, and they should be.
00:28:00.000Mitt Romney came out defending Mitch McConnell yesterday.
00:28:03.000This is how you know how bad things are for Mitch McConnell, that he has to have Mitt Romney come out and say something nice about him.
00:28:11.000I'm telling you right now, it's not looking good for Mitch.
00:28:14.000And the biggest slap in the face to get the Republican Party and the establishment correct here would be to win big with the right person in life.
00:28:42.000So in New Mexico, New Mexico is kind of similar.
00:28:46.000So there's three states that obviously everybody, I think, is really watching now on the gubernatorial side.
00:28:51.000You got New Mexico, you've got Oregon, and you've got Minnesota.
00:28:56.000And obviously, New York is now thrown in that category too.
00:29:00.000If Republicans have the kind of day that we need to have, you know, for some of these Senate races and some of these congressional races, you're going to see some of these governors get over the top.
00:29:30.000That's what's going to flip Minnesota.
00:29:33.000That's where the Republican Party has to invest its time and effort moving forward is win and flip these school board races because you win all the way up ticket when you do that.
00:29:43.000Ron Shetty can become the next governor of New Mexico.
00:29:46.000And by the way, in New Mexico, that's why it's happening because parents are so ticked off because schools are so poorly run in New Mexico.
00:31:39.000And that's not far from a facility that we have because we have a distribution facility that's not far from outside there.
00:31:44.000But if he pulls out that race, which he could, because it's within a couple of points, that's going to say a lot, I think, in not just Illinois, but the rest of the Midwest.
00:31:56.000And again, we were just talking about Minnesota.
00:32:00.000And this is where we were just talking about how Democrats want to redraw the map of North Carolina.
00:32:05.000Republicans have to get extraordinarily serious about prioritizing these states.
00:32:11.000And so what I'm most angry about coming out of this election, and I'm going to go into the RNC in January, and I'm going to probably rain hellfire upon the rest of the RNC.
00:32:25.000And other RNC members, my colleagues, need to hear this as well.
00:32:28.000You cannot say that Arizona or Georgia or Wisconsin are the most important states and then not help make sure that national resources are directed.
00:32:51.000Yeah, we're nothing more than an organization that tries to be a vehicle, a vessel for normal, everyday people to get involved, to take their country back.
00:33:39.000If you guys don't know the history of Caroline Levitt, New Hampshire girl, born and raised, went and worked in the Trump White House.
00:33:45.000After Trump left in 2020, she got involved in New Hampshire politics even more, ran a phenomenal primary campaign, was the underdog, was outspent almost like five to one.
00:33:57.000She's going to be a great congresswoman.
00:33:59.000If you live in New Hampshire and you haven't voted yet, you've got to make a plan and get her across the finish line because if she wins, this is going to be a shock across the world.
00:34:06.000And she's going to slap around the establishment.