Tulsi Gabbard and Mark Mitchell join me to talk about the latest in the Tim Walz scandal, and why he should have stayed in uniform. Join us to hear from Tulsi and Mark as they talk about why Tim should not have left his post as a member of the National Guard to run for Congress, why he shouldn t have left the unit, and what it would mean for him to stay in uniform and fight for our country in the face of overwhelming odds to win re-election in 2020, and how he could have handled the situation if he had been called up to serve in the active duty National Guard in the late 90s and early 2000s. We also talk about his decision to leave his unit as soon as he found out that his battalion was going to deploy to Iraq in 2005, when he was given notice that his unit was going on an 18 month deployment to the Middle East. Learn how you could protect your wealth with Noble Gold Investments, a company that specializes in gold and physical delivery of precious metals, at noblegoldinvestments.com. That is where I buy all of my gold. It s where I get my gold and I get all my investments in the spot I want to be in the future. Noble Gold is the official gold sponsor of The Charlie Kirk Show, and I buy it all at Noble Gold Investing Investments at NobleGoldInvestments.co/theCharlieKirkShow. Go to noblegold.investments and become a member to get your MAGA Hat, it s where you get all of your gold and you get a free gold and precious metals! head start-up kit! Go and get your mitts and all the gold you could be your best chance at the world of the future! Subscribe to the show! to get 20% off the show and get 10% off for the rest of the show, plus free shipping, shipping anywhere else in the world, including China, Hong Kong, India, Russia, and more! FREE M&MEXCLUSIVE PRICING! Click here to receive $10 off your first month and $50 off your order of $50 or $100 in the next month! You get 20 days of your choice of a 4-day shipping plan, plus a free shipping plan and shipping included in the show gets you an ad-free VIP membership, plus I ll send you an extra $50,000 shipping plan when you sign up!
00:00:34.000He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
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00:01:40.000I served with him in Congress, was aware marginally of his 24 years of service in the National Guard, but had no idea about much of what is being exposed here.
00:01:52.000Seems like day after day there are more people coming forward and pointing out things that he has said that have completely misrepresented his record of service.
00:02:02.000You know, the two that really cut to the core are, you know, you can serve our country honorably, you can serve in the Reserve, the National Guard, or active duty, but don't pretend or say that you have gone to quote-unquote war when you have not.
00:02:22.000And he apparently over and over and over has made it appear, wanting people to believe that he has, which is, it's not only sad, it's an affront to people who have gone and deployed to war multiple times, as many of us have.
00:02:38.000The second thing is his decision to leave and retire as soon as he found out that his battalion As a senior enlisted leader, that his battalion was given notice that they were going to deploy to Iraq in 2005.
00:02:58.000We would be there for all of 2005, right in the heart of the Sunni triangle.
00:03:03.000When he was given notice that his unit was going, he said no, and he retired.
00:03:09.000For those of us that are civilians, can you give us something analogous of what that would mean to just kind of turn your back on your battalion?
00:03:17.000I want to be very careful with my word selection.
00:03:19.000What should we think of that person's character?
00:03:24.000I can tell you about my own experience and my own decision.
00:03:28.000In 2004, I was a state representative in Hawaii.
00:03:31.000I was campaigning for re-election, what looked to be a very easy re-election.
00:03:35.000I'd served one term, or was serving the end of one term at that point, when our National Guard unit was Given notice, it was going to be called up for an 18-month-long deployment.
00:03:47.000I was in a medical headquarters unit at the time.
00:03:49.000My commander called and said, hey, congratulations, you are not on the mandatory deployment roster.
00:03:53.000We've got somebody filling the job that you're trained in.
00:03:57.000You can finish campaigning for re-election.
00:03:59.000You continue your service in the state legislature.
00:04:02.000And my answer to him was no, there's no way that I will stay home and wave goodbye to my brothers and sisters in uniform as they deploy off to the other side of the world At the height of the Iraq War and stay back in beautiful Hawaii.
00:04:18.000There was no way I would allow that to happen.
00:04:20.000And in uniform, while I was a state legislator in Hawaiian uniform, my rank was very low.
00:04:29.000But I knew that there was no way that I could stay home and wave goodbye to them.
00:04:35.000You look at Tim Walz in a similar situation where he had already decided he wanted to run for Congress.
00:04:40.000Maybe he hadn't started his campaign yet.
00:04:43.000And he was given that similar kind of heads up that I was back in 2004.
00:04:49.000And instead of choosing to stand with his unit, he was then either an E8, a master sergeant, or he was actually in the command sergeant major role in his unit, which is the senior enlisted leader.
00:05:04.000Whose job it is to take care of soldiers, to lead soldiers, and he chose not to go.
00:05:11.000And he chose to allow them to go to war and deploy without him.
00:05:16.000So, similarly to this idea of the entire Harris-Walls ticket and what's going on with the federal government, after Joe Biden announced that he was not running for re-election, you went on Laura Ingraham and said how dangerous she would be as commander-in-chief.
00:05:31.000The next day, you were then put on a terror watch list called Quiet Skies.
00:05:40.000Yeah, it was July 22nd when I went on Laura Ingraham's show and all of this news was breaking and I said, issued the same warning that I issued back in 2019 when she was running for president in the Democratic primary, as was I, how dangerous she would be as president and commander-in-chief.
00:05:58.000The very next day, what I experienced was the beginning of what would be multiple flights of in-depth screening by TSA.
00:06:07.00030 to 45 minutes of search of me and every single article of everything that was in my carry-on in-depth screening.
00:06:17.000I saw there were more TSA K-9 teams in the airport.
00:06:22.000It wasn't until actually the first week of August that air marshals came forward and disclosed that I was added to this Quiet Skies list on July 23rd, the very same day that I started to experience TSA PreCheck no longer worked in this heightened security around My movements and later found out that there were at least three air marshals on every single flight that I was on.
00:06:50.000This is clearly political retaliation, a violation of my First Amendment rights to free speech, and a violation of my Fourth Amendment rights in a right to privacy, and has put me in a position now, and I'm not alone, there are others on this list, so this is not just about me, but in a position now where I don't know what other government agencies are surveilling me and my movements, reading my text messages, surveilling emails, or listening to phone calls, and now forever having this stress of looking over my shoulder because my government
00:07:24.000has chosen to deem me as a potential domestic terror threat.
00:07:33.000There is no due process, neither for me nor anyone else who's on this list, who may not even know they're on this list.
00:07:39.000Members of Congress don't have access to this list.
00:07:43.000It is an egregious situation that is unconstitutional.
00:07:47.000And provides some insight into what kind of regime we would live under if Kamala Harris is elected as president.
00:07:55.000It's a very, very serious threat, not only because of what I'm going through, but because this is what we have to look forward to in this kind of political retaliatory action.
00:08:05.000And just so everyone understands that there have been, that we know of, 99 people on the terror watch list released into the interior of the United States from the southern border, and yet the federal government is using manpower and resources to act as if you're going to go blow up an airplane.
00:08:26.000And oh, by the way, for as long as this Quiet Skies domestic terror watchlist system has been in place, the TSA has not issued a single arrest, nor have they foiled a single domestic terror plot.
00:09:27.000And it does have that chilling effect, not only on me, again, wondering how is what I am saying in exercising my right to free speech going to affect me in the sense of my government and law enforcement and the national security state being weaponized against me?
00:10:41.000And she wants to shut up all the dissidents.
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00:11:46.000So Tulsi, you ran against Kamala Harris and was largely responsible for starting the narrative against her as a fake.
00:11:53.000How do you best now recommend and suggest that we run up against Kamala Harris in this propaganda-filled media environment that we find ourselves in?
00:12:04.000And it's noticeable for anybody who was paying attention how quickly the mainstream propaganda media flipped the switch and immediately started, you know, this revisionist history and the Borders Are example.
00:12:17.000Of course, everyone has seen these videos of even the mainstream media saying, well, she's the Borders Are and she's responsible for border security.
00:12:32.000So they're not even trying to be sneaky about this.
00:12:36.000So number one is just calling them out for what it is.
00:12:39.000But to me, the most important thing is recognizing what her record has been as President Biden's partner over the last three and a half years.
00:12:49.000And it is an abysmal Terrible, horrific record when we think about what is in the best interest of our country in every respect.
00:12:57.000The best way to be able to defeat her is by speaking the truth about her record when it comes to our own border security, when it comes to domestic policy, when it comes to her championing our children being violated both in the classroom and the sexualization of our kids and propagating and pushing these irreversible Gender mutilation surgeries, what to speak of foreign policy, what to speak of the economy.
00:13:23.000There are so many different issues where her record is abysmal when we look at it through the context of what's in the best interest of the American people.
00:13:32.000And then you compare and contrast the truth about her failures with President Trump's record.
00:13:38.000We don't have to take his word for it.
00:13:39.000We can look at what his record was as president for four years.
00:13:44.000Yes, and so how then, just from a strategic standpoint, do we get the message out when she will not even do a sit-down interview, where she will not take questions from reporters?
00:13:55.000This is a sad state of the modern Democrat Party.
00:13:57.000I know you talk about this in your book.
00:13:59.000The Democrat Party won't even talk to the press.
00:14:01.000I thought that they're all about like open democracy and reporters are the best things ever and that reporters are like close to sainthood.
00:14:10.000Yet she has such low respect for the people and for reporters that she won't even sit down for an interview.
00:14:15.000And that's that is exactly the point that that we need to keep reminding people of is that she wants to be our president and commander in chief.
00:14:28.000Through journalists, through the media.
00:14:29.000I mean, she won't even talk to the media who are likely to do puff pieces on her and softball interviews.
00:14:36.000And I think it just reveals, again, how do you expect us to believe that you are capable of being President, Commander-in-Chief when you can't even handle a single interview or a single press conference?
00:14:46.000And I think contrasting that again with President Trump's press conference the other day, where he went for over an hour.
00:14:52.000I think he answered, what, 50 questions over that period of time?
00:14:56.000An open book, transparent, speaking to the American people and being true to who he is and the problems he sees in the country and how he seeks to solve them.
00:15:05.000I think this debate coming up is going to be very revealing where she won't be able to have a teleprompter and it will provide that opportunity to expose her in the same way that I did back in 2019.
00:15:20.000Of how unprepared she is and how lacking she is on substance.
00:15:24.000She's going to try to smile her way through this election.
00:15:27.000We can't allow people to fall for that.
00:15:29.000So if you were in the room doing debate prep for President Trump, I hope you are.
00:15:34.000I'm going to push for that because you're one of the few people that's actually debated against Kamala Harris.
00:15:38.000So I'm going to make a phone call after this.
00:15:50.000The way President Trump carried himself and projected himself during his debate with President Biden, I think, is the same approach that he should take with Kamala Harris and just confront her with her record.
00:16:08.000Doing that and taking that approach, speaking facts about her record, puts her on defense, and she's shown she is not very capable of a strong defense.
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00:17:32.000Joining us now is Mark Mitchell, head pollster for Rasmussen Reports.
00:17:36.000So, Mark, I don't envy you right now, because I'm sure you're doing a lot of interviews where the host is panicking, and they're, Mark, tell me it's not true!
00:17:45.000Maybe not, but at least, if you had any window into my phone yesterday, I had at least nine different people, some donors, some activists, Charlie, what's going on with this?
00:17:53.000New York Times, Siena Poll, what's going on here?
00:17:55.000So, Mark Mitchell, tell us, what is the true state of the race, Kamala versus Trump?
00:18:01.000Well, I think we've built up a lot of trust and the people who are following us, let me tell you, are not freaking out because exactly what's playing out right now in our numbers is what I predicted.
00:18:11.000Donald Trump was beating Joe Biden all year, up very comfortably.
00:18:15.000And the entire time we were polling on Kamala Harris, every time we poll, she's slightly less favorable than Biden.
00:18:21.000She underperforms him by maybe one point against Trump.
00:18:24.000And I said, well, if they switcheroo, like nobody really cares on the Democrat side who the candidate is.
00:18:29.000The numbers we are going to see are the exact same.
00:18:33.000Now, you know, there's always bounces and swings happen, and we absolutely saw that in our data.
00:18:38.000We poll every night, and I tell you what, every other pollster is polling every night as well, and what they saw is the same thing I saw in my data, which is, the very first night, you know, out of the blue, everybody's like, Kamala Harris, the switcheroo happened, Donald Trump beat her by 16 nights in a matchup.
00:18:54.000The very next night, it was down to 6 points, and then for a couple days, Kamala Harris, in our polling, actually beat Donald Trump by 2 or 3 points.
00:19:05.000And we've been polling every night, putting out our big polls on Thursday.
00:19:09.000That's a, you know, cumulative aggregate of all of the data.
00:19:13.000And what I'm starting to notice is that nobody's putting out polls this week.
00:19:18.000Everybody watching this should go to Real Clear Politics and just, you know, look at the race right now and the general election 2024 race.
00:21:35.000You know, these things happen and they kind of work.
00:21:37.000Right now, I think pollsters are ducking and hiding and waiting for maybe the beginning of the DNC, or I don't know, maybe while we're talking right now, everybody's dropping their polls.
00:21:48.000But I just don't see how, based on where my numbers were before the switcheroo and after the switcheroo, how anybody, I mean, Trump was up like three points in the Real Clear Politics aggregate before the switcheroo.
00:22:00.000It's going to go right back to that if it hasn't already.
00:22:03.000So, let's just repeat, what do your numbers show right now?
00:22:09.000Not the national polls, but walk us through kind of the... So, if Donald Trump wins Pennsylvania, Georgia, he's president, because he's going to win Iowa, he'll win North Carolina, he'll win Ohio, he'll win Florida.
00:22:19.000I already have those in the safe category.
00:22:22.000So, therefore, if he wins Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona would be nice, but it's not as necessary.
00:22:27.000What does your polling show in Pennsylvania?
00:22:29.000I just want to step back, and again, the top line national numbers.
00:22:32.000Last time we put the big one out, five points up Trump in a national election poll, right?
00:22:37.000So that is like a 12 or 13 points reversal from where he was four years ago.
00:22:43.000I just want everybody to understand that as a context for the swing states.
00:22:46.000Polling in swing states is hard, especially now that everybody goes to online panels.
00:22:51.000The online panels in the states are really small, and every swing state poll is smaller than a national poll.
00:22:57.000It's going to have a larger margin of error.
00:22:59.000We went into the swing states in July, and in every single one of the six swing states in a multi-way matchup, we had Donald Trump up from one points all the way up to nine points in Arizona.
00:23:11.000I think we had him up three or four in Pennsylvania.
00:23:14.000So we had Trump Comfortably winning every single one of the swing states closest to Michigan tied in a two way.
00:23:20.000But again, there's a larger margin of error there.
00:23:22.000But what's important to point out in that poll, that particular sample, when it was all collected, Trump was winning three points nationally.
00:23:30.000So for real clear politics aggregate to have Trump up three nationally, I don't care what the swing states say, they're going to probably look pretty similar to mine, right?
00:23:41.000There's tricks that people are going to do when they put these swing states out that can Pick when to, specifically when to sample.
00:23:48.000They can aggressively squash results that they think are outlier data points.
00:23:54.000They can surreptitiously switch the way that they weight and oversample Democrats versus Republicans.
00:24:00.000That's one of the tactics I think a lot of people are using right now.
00:24:03.000I can proudly say we're Democrat plus two, we might go to Democrat plus three, but I tell people if I'm going to shift them, I'm not going to do D plus two one week to show Donald Trump beating Joe Biden and then D plus five the following week to show Kamala Harris up.
00:24:18.000That's scummy, because it doesn't show up in the disclosures.
00:24:21.000So I don't know, I think there's a lot of negative tricks.
00:24:24.000And I think ultimately, as we all know, and as we'll tell you, and most other pollsters will not, that election integrity matters more now, especially this year than it ever has before.
00:24:35.000And all of the numbers about that topic are going in the wrong direction.
00:25:09.000So now two out of three voters in this country think it's at least somewhat likely that cheating is going to affect the outcome of the election.
00:25:19.000A majority of Democrats now for the first time, a massive number of Republicans, and the independents tend to agree with Republicans on this topic.
00:25:26.000Well, we've asked a bunch of different ways, too.
00:25:28.000And I'll tell you, we have a very strong body of election integrity work.
00:25:47.000And we've had a couple other zingers over the last couple months, too.
00:25:51.000In that same swing state poll that we did in the national portion, which was a 2,500 person poll, we showed that 9%, and again, this is a likely voter poll, 9% of the respondents answered either no or not sure to the question, are you a US citizen?
00:26:55.000In that same swing state poll, we asked people, hey, in the 2020 election, did you receive more than one mail-in ballot or a ballot at your house for somebody that didn't live there?
00:27:05.000It was 18% nationally, 20% in the swing states.
00:27:08.000So, elections are an absolute mess in this country.
00:27:11.000Everybody seems to know it, in my opinion, along with the suppression polls or the, like, whatever the opposite of suppression is.
00:27:22.00084 days to election, one poll that's not Rasmussen came out since August 4th.
00:27:27.000They just declared Tim Walz, the Democrat running mate and not a single national corporate media pollster, cares to understand what Americans think about that selection.
00:27:37.000Because when Kamala Harris got, you know, became the candidate, the switcheroo, Reuters Ipsos was tripping over themselves to put a poll out within 36 hours.
00:27:46.000Where are all the rush polls to put, you know, polls out showing how great a pick Tim Waltz was?
00:27:52.000Well, there aren't any because I'm pretty sure they're going to show that Kamala Harris is losing to Donald Trump nationally right now.
00:28:11.000I will point out this is among the higher numbers for Trump, but still, he's underwater here at minus 7 points.
00:28:16.000Jump over to the Democratic side with me if you will.
00:28:19.000Kamala Harris is actually better liked by more voters than she is disliked at a plus 2 net favorable rating, and then Tim Walz here at a plus 11 rating.
00:28:42.000I'm trying to get them out of my polling because we cease to exist.
00:28:46.000There's a great chart I'd love for you guys to put up, or if you could go look at it on our Rasmussen Twitter feed that shows all of our polling in 2016-2020.
00:28:55.000Everybody calls us a right-wing pollster.
00:28:56.000We were actually 1.5, 2 points left in 2020, and we were incredibly accurate.
00:29:02.000So at the end of the day, it comes down to track record.
00:29:04.000Right now, my numbers show Trump's up about 3 to 5 points right now.
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00:30:40.000So we're told that Kamala Harris is surging.
00:30:44.000Now, in the summer of 2020, when I started to get worried, was when I realized, when Joe Biden was quote-unquote surging, or the opposition of Trump was building, is when we started to get slaughtered in voter registration numbers.
00:30:58.000That's when I started to get a little bit concerned.
00:31:01.000In June and July of last year, when all of a sudden we were losing significant net ground in Arizona.
00:31:08.000Losing significant net ground in Pennsylvania.
00:31:10.000Losing significant net ground in Georgia.
00:32:20.000In Arizona, thanks to the hard work of Turning Point Action and all of you that support Turning Point in the grassroots, in Arizona we registered 19,884 new voters in July.
00:34:10.000We have to get on message, we have to find a measure that resonates, and we have to close like Mariano Rivera the last 60 days of the election.
00:34:16.000And then we have to chase ballots like our life depends on it.
00:34:43.000If those numbers can scale over the course of a year, and you can scale them for 2 or 3 years, again that's a lot of ifs, California could become competitive in the next 5 or 10 years.
00:34:53.000And I know Blake is going to say, no way, run the numbers!
00:34:57.000You, again, it might have just been a really good month, but you have a 150,000 advantage a month in California as Republicans, and you do that for one year, two year, three year, four year, five year straight?
00:35:11.000I'm not saying you can win it, but you can get close.