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00:02:47.000Tell us why you're running for governor, and then let's get right into what's happening here in Arizona.
00:02:51.000Well, I'm running for governor because we're being invaded from the South and we're under attack from Washington, D.C. As you said, I'm a lifelong native.
00:03:25.000And, you know, there was a time I would tell my parents I was going to write a book about them for making me work, you know, at such a young age because it was some form of child abuse.
00:03:33.000I'm sure they would be thrown in jail now for putting their five-year-old to work.
00:03:37.000But the book I'm going to read is going to be one about gratitude and the opportunities I have had my entire life to build a career.
00:03:45.000I put myself through school, put myself through law school, built my career, been very successful, and I thank God every day for it.
00:03:51.000And I see those opportunities slipping away.
00:03:54.000I have, you know, I'm a mother of four.
00:03:56.000I have a new grandchild, and this is about the next generation.
00:03:59.000This is about making sure that the next generation have the same opportunities.
00:04:02.000And in Arizona, if you come here, you work hard, you treat people well, you can accomplish anything you want to accomplish.
00:04:09.000And, you know, I had the opportunity many years ago to work for Ronald Reagan at the White House.
00:04:14.000And we all like to quote Ronald Reagan, but he said, you know, I'm not going to use or spend my sunset years telling my kids what it was like to be free.
00:04:48.000But every one of the national trends that we talk about on this program is kind of front and center here, from schools to border to inflation.
00:05:04.000And about to triple with the revocation of Title 42.
00:05:07.000If the Biden administration follows through with it next week on the 23rd, they're already amassing on the other side of the border, waiting to come over.
00:06:31.000Look at the amount of fentanyl that's been confiscated just in the last couple months, enough to kill every man, woman, and child in America.
00:07:09.000This will affect us for generations if we don't do something about it.
00:07:13.000Yeah, so does that include kind of doing what Abbott's doing, which is, you know, we're going to mobilize the National Guard, we're going to do what's necessary?
00:07:18.000I mean, that's the stuff where sometimes there's kind of a tension, right?
00:07:24.000Governor has to do anything and everything possible.
00:07:27.000And I've said the very first thing I will do is I will call an emergency session of our legislature.
00:07:32.000We'll find the resources necessary to send to our local law enforcement along the border, give them the resources they need to deal with the problem, send additional National Guard down there to support local law enforcement, continue to build the wall where we can.
00:07:45.000We've got state land, we have private land.
00:07:47.000We also have federal land, of course, and tribal land.
00:07:49.000And I can tell you, talking to private property owners down on the border, they will welcome the wall on their property.
00:08:47.000We have more people moving to Arizona, and we can't deliver fast enough to the market because it's not just the rising prices, or part of the reason that we're having the rising prices is we can't get the supplies.
00:10:16.000And so when you have kind of these economic conditions, you have a lot of second and third-tier effects that people don't really anticipate.
00:10:26.000But what ends up happening is you'll see crime go up.
00:10:29.000People can't afford things, they get super cynical, you know, and it kind of trickles down.
00:10:33.000I mean, this is why a booming economy is really good for crime, actually, because when you're earning something, you're not going to go break into a store.
00:10:40.000We're seeing crime go up in the valley, not in every city, but certainly across the valley.
00:10:46.000Really quick, talk a little about that, and then we'll kind of continue on the other side of the break.
00:10:49.000My law enforcement plan speaks to this directly with the rising crime rates.
00:10:53.000And when you have cities talking about defunding the police, I've made it extremely clear: any city in this state that attempts to defund their police, we will use every authority we have to defund that city.
00:11:42.000And, you know, I had a significant disadvantage on name ID with a primary competitor, and we knew we had to overcome that, and we are.
00:11:50.000And we're all over the state, radio, TV, and I am crisscrossing this state loving it.
00:11:54.000As an Arizona native, I thought I had seen the whole state, only to find out, no, there's a lot of places I haven't been to, but I'm every single day looking at it.
00:12:06.000I was up there to tour the Glen Canyon Dam and meet with the Bureau of Reclamation to understand a little bit better the drought situation and the practical implications of our reservoir system.
00:12:16.000But while we were there, we went to Antelope Canyon, which is just one of the great treasures of Arizona.
00:12:34.000At the end of the day, the election is about safety and security.
00:12:38.000And that's the job of a governor to make sure that the people of the state are safe and secure.
00:12:43.000Now, with inflation running rampant coming out of the Biden administration, it makes our job that much more difficult.
00:12:48.000I heard yesterday, and you might need to fact-check me on this, but I heard that 30% of all the money printed ever has been printed in the last 18 months.
00:13:49.000We also have, and this is critically important, we have more than 50% of our kids going to a school other than the one that they've been assigned, which tells me parents care.
00:13:59.000And when I'm governor, the money is going to follow the kid into the classroom, and every parent will have the opportunity to pick the best educational pathway for their kids.
00:14:08.000And Scottsdale Unified has just been so terrible, you know, in the last couple of years.
00:14:11.000I mean, Jan Michael Greenberg and that whole thing of style.
00:14:15.000And so that's really where a governor can intervene.
00:14:19.000And like someone like Ron DeSantis, who's just been phenomenal in Florida, and say, we're not doing the CRT thing.
00:14:29.000So what do you think of kind of the Ron DeSantis model of governing?
00:14:33.000Well, you know, I love what he's doing, in particular with the schools and with CRT.
00:14:37.000I have been a passionate advocate for civics education for a long time.
00:14:41.000I chaired the Joe Foss Institute when we initiated the civics education initiative that requires all of our high school seniors to take the civics test that immigrants, legal immigrants to the country take in order to become citizens.
00:14:52.000Arizona was the first to pass that, and now that's required in 33 states.
00:14:57.000So we estimate between four and six million students, high school seniors a year, have to take that test.
00:15:45.000I mean, everybody, myself included, thought, you know, we're dropping our kid off at school, and we think they're learning what we learned as kids, only to discover that that was totally in error.
00:15:55.000And that our kids today are being taught to hate this country and hate the kid next to them because of the color of their skin.
00:16:27.000I chaired the Republican Legislative Victory Fund in 2020, and I saw firsthand the millions and millions of dollars that they put into the state then.
00:17:01.000You rarely see this kind of focus and commitment.
00:17:03.000They recently shared with me that they are doubling down and want to literally double their total number of happy customers in the next year.
00:17:11.000If you're struggling with back pain, neck pain, shoulder, hip, or knee pain, even general muscle aches and pain, then I'm suggesting you order their three-week quick start, still discounted, only $19.95.
00:18:32.000They're honest about who they hate, what they want to do, and what they believe in.
00:18:38.000Republicans, on the other hand, are either confused, in other words, they don't know what time it is, or they lie to you.
00:18:46.000So, they've basically enabled the agenda of Biden, which entails stealing money from Americans who are struggling right now, and also bringing us one step closer into a direct war with Russia.
00:18:59.000Right now, we're just in a proxy war, but the Republicans are basically trying to run to the right of Biden on foreign policy to be more hawkish than him.
00:19:09.000And their justification for it is that this is patriotic.
00:19:13.000So, basically, these people care about as much about America as Democrats do, which is to say they don't, but they'll wave the flag.
00:19:22.000They'll talk about freedom and liberty, and they'll refer to America as the indispensable nation while they sell you out and help Biden.
00:19:29.000But at the same time, they're denouncing.
00:19:31.000But there's really not a whole lot of difference at all between the Republican Party's worldview and the Democrats.
00:19:38.000This is ultimately just a difference in degree.
00:19:41.000And like you, I'm not a libertarian, but I really respect guys like Thomas Massey and Randall Paul who are standing firm on this and issuing actually principled defenses of their positions and why supporting stuff like this is actually un-American.
00:20:37.000And I mean, there's so much to unpack there.
00:20:39.000I want to start with this, which is that they don't know what time it is, which I completely and totally agree, or they're just so ideologically corrupt or misguided.
00:20:48.000And I respect some of these people on other issues that voted for this Ukraine package.
00:20:54.000And their statements, it's just, it's full of nonsense.
00:20:58.000Where they say, well, you know, we can't have Russia bordering a NATO country.
00:21:03.000I'm like, well, they actually already are.
00:21:05.000If you know anything about Russian geography, there's a 1 million person port city, Kalingrad Oblast, which borders Poland and it's a military installation.
00:21:17.000So Russia already has troops bordering NATO countries.
00:21:21.000So the argument is that you think that we should further intervene to the tune of $40 billion that we don't have, and that he asked for 33 billion.
00:21:31.000And something you and I have talked about before, which is one of the Republicans that voted for it, I can't remember too, is like, well, this is us showing that, you know, we're sending American values to Ukraine.
00:21:41.000I'm like, oh, okay, so that American values, like, so 11-year-olds in Kyiv can get puberty blockers or that there can be a Planned Parenthood in every corner in Mariupol.
00:21:51.000I don't think we're sending the American values of Alexander Hamilton with this aid package.
00:21:57.000In fact, it funds the government directly, does it not?
00:22:00.000Yeah, I think this is actually a really important point because, again, it shows either ideological confusion, they don't understand their own position and why it's wrong, or that they're lying.
00:22:11.000Because supporting this kind of aid and the process that it entails, I mean, I don't know how else to describe it other than statism.
00:22:20.000If you're someone like Ted Cruz, who constantly sings the praises of limited government and fiscal responsibility, how can you do that and not laugh at how hypocritical you sound when you support sending billions of dollars to Ukraine, which is, you know, we're not even getting into the fact that Ukraine is just a haven of corruption that specializes in basically stealing international aid money.
00:22:46.000This is all really well known and documented.
00:22:48.000One of the biggest oligarchs in Ukraine, his name is Igor Kolomoyski.
00:22:55.000This is someone who has actually been in hot water recently for allegedly stealing IMF aid money, billions of dollars of it through Pre-Votbank, right?
00:23:05.000I mean, there's a whole connection between this guy and Hunter Biden and Burisma.
00:23:09.000But the point is, you can't pretend to be against the state and for a limited government while at the same time supporting this.
00:23:18.000So it just shows that these Republicans either don't have principles or don't understand the implications of their principles.
00:23:33.000Some of them voted no because they said the number was too big or the excuses were okay, right?
00:23:41.000There was only a couple like Josh Hawley or Mike Lee or Rand Paul that I think made the correct argument, like, why are we doing this at all if it was $1 or $40 billion, right?
00:24:34.000On the one hand, I think it really comes down again to this kind of Mitch McConnell's an old guy.
00:24:40.000I think certainly part of him is still kind of stuck.
00:24:43.000And that's not to say anything bad about old people, but it seems to him natural to kind of frame it, maybe to lie to himself that this is just kind of the Cold War all over again, right?
00:24:54.000That this is the Ruskies and Red Dawn and stuff like that.
00:24:57.000I think maybe he has to tell himself that to justify what is just inexcusable.
00:25:03.000But on the other hand, so setting that aside, we accept that some of these people are, you know, they really believe that this is Cold War 2.0.
00:25:12.000If you set that aside, I think it just comes down to the fact that there is a lot of money, I think a lot of political favors.
00:25:21.000And basically foreign policy, I think, is the kind of cornerstone of the established political order.
00:25:38.000That's obviously the correct instinct to have.
00:25:41.000But foreign policy is really kind of the biggest expression of ideology.
00:25:48.000All of the bad things, in other words, that your Republican voter hates about the current government, about the current establishment, a lot of those things run through our foreign policy.
00:26:00.000If you look at it, our foreign policy for decades has been basically the process of transferring our sovereignty, our privacy, and our freedom to these unaccountable organizations that are basically transnational that we have no control over, right?
00:26:15.000Like, I don't know if you'd put the World Health Organization under the umbrella of foreign policy, but this is one of these organizations that we just kind of defer fate to.
00:26:44.000You know the answer is that they actually don't believe in our borders.
00:26:47.000So they're trying to desensitize us to that by just trying to expand the horizon of what actually matters.
00:26:54.000What's so hilarious is like, if they think borders don't matter at all, then that would invalidate the whole idea of NATO, wouldn't it?
00:27:00.000I mean, the idea that no border matters, but you and I both know this, that it is a Petri dish project for these incredibly radical, degenerate social issues to be able to be exported imperialistically, right?
00:27:14.000That's why in the midst of all this, NATO is posting pictures with like the rainbow flag.
00:27:19.000What does that have to do with everything, actually?
00:27:25.000Pedro, this week there was a massive smear campaign launched against Tucker Carlson in association with the tragedy that happened in Buffalo, all around this quote-unquote idea of the great replacement.
00:27:37.000This is, of course, nothing that anyone on the center right talks about.
00:27:41.000None of us actually even know what this is until the lefts or the ADL start screaming about it when they're the ones that have actually been bragging about how mass immigration and demographic change are going to help them politically.
00:27:51.000And the moment we point it out, all of a sudden we're the ones pushing the theory.
00:27:54.000What are your thoughts on all of this?
00:27:55.000I think that the great replacement is something that if we look at who subscribes to this, who believes in it, you're not going to find anyone that fits that profile better than Democrats and liberals who have been, like you said, screaming about basically weaponizing the demographics of immigration to secure electoral victories and affect political and cultural change.
00:28:19.000That's ultimately what we're talking about.
00:28:21.000There's this attempt to kind of reframe it as there's a difference between what I just described to you right now and the great replacement somehow, but it doesn't really make sense.
00:28:30.000The difference is really just an attempt to kind of misdirect.
00:28:32.000In some ways, it's the reverse of what people like Christopher Ruffo have done with critical race theory, where he took something that was a specific thing.
00:28:43.000He took critical race theory and he said, we're going to use this term because we can, it's something that people can understand.
00:28:49.000It's sling that's evocative, and we're going to use it to describe all different matters of basically indoctrination to get people to hate themselves based on their race, right?
00:29:25.000It's, for lack of a better word, evil.
00:29:27.000Because again, these people have been the biggest proponents of using what they think is demography as destiny to basically defeat the Republican Party for good.
00:29:52.000I mean, we have, we played tape for like 10 minutes the other day, where they repeatedly are the ones that are like, well, demographics or destiny, demographics or destiny, as Scarborough says it over and over and over again.
00:30:03.000And it is this unbelievable smear where then you and I say like, okay, maybe I'm going to believe that you're actually trying to use mass immigration as a way to get political power.
00:30:26.000Precisely because it's so well documented.
00:30:29.000And I mean, there's articles in the New York Times where the headline is, we can replace them.
00:30:34.000There's articles in the New York Times by Charles Blow, where he's saying that the census, the 2020 census showed the explosion of the non-white and the shrinking of the white, which he thinks obviously is a good thing because Charles Blow hates white people.
00:30:49.000You can't read his columns and come away with any other conclusion.
00:30:52.000Or sorry, the wrong kind of white people, which are the ones that I guess that don't defer to him, right?
00:30:57.000They don't work at the New York Times.
00:30:59.000In 2016 or 2018, but basically looking back on the election of Donald Trump, sorry, it was 2018, not 2016.
00:31:06.000Looking back on the election of Donald Trump, he published an article called White Extinction Anxiety, where he reduced Donald Trump's victory to just that, basically the last dying gasp of white people in America who he doesn't like.
00:31:59.000But and then he mentions this idea of like demography used as a political vehicle, which again, Democrats have openly been taught.
00:32:06.000Joe Biden in 2015, his vice president said that I don't know if you played this already, but you know, he said himself that it was a source of our strength that a non-stop wave of immigration would reduce Americans of white European European stock to a minority.
00:32:22.000Ted Kennedy said that exact same thing in the 60s and 70s, that mass immigration, when you pass the bill, is going to help the Democrat Party.