00:00:56.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:55.000I would receive email solicitations and text messages.
00:01:58.000I was still a young activist at the time.
00:02:00.000Turning Point USA was not even two years old.
00:02:04.000I was traveling the Midwest, traveling the country, trying to scrap together whatever support I could.
00:02:08.000And I remember I was getting email solicitations about an economics professor in Virginia that was trying to unseat Eric Cantor.
00:02:21.000Eric Cantor at the time was one of the most powerful people in Washington, D.C. Eric Cantor was House Majority Leader, number two in charge at the time.
00:04:19.000He showed his true colors as nothing more than a typical transactional Washington, D.C. technocrat, as someone who promised to balance the budget and represent voters.
00:04:28.000He was nothing more than a chamber of commerce corporate shill talking about how we're going to ease the burden of taxes on the biggest corporations and bring in more foreigners and invade foreign countries.
00:04:47.000And you would think that would have sent a message to the Washington, D.C. oligarchs that the grassroots are not to be played with, that the people were losing patience.
00:05:01.000That very same movement that, of course, started with the Tea Party movement in 2010 that delivered a mandate to rein in the spending, a mandate to shrink the size of D.C., a mandate to balance the budget, the will of the people, never actually materialized.
00:05:19.000Because the people that don't believe anything in D.C., like John Boehner, all John Boehner believes in is how much Merlot he can drink before noon.
00:05:29.000I think he and Nancy Pelosi have a competition of who the drunkest speaker was in the modern era.
00:05:35.000They used the energy of the grassroots to make themselves important, to make themselves powerful, almost like political holograms.
00:05:46.000You would think that after the election of Donald Trump, the people in D.C. realized that the grassroots are gaining in strength.
00:05:57.000It was becoming a pardoned party of plumbers, electricians, welders, the muscular class.
00:06:04.000Eric Cantor being displaced was one of the most amazing political upsets in history.
00:06:10.000And what happened this last weekend with the continuing resolution and the motion to vacate is just another chapter in the book that will be written of Republicans that don't listen to their voters.
00:06:26.000We've been warning about this for quite some time.
00:06:30.000That the base of the party has been taken for granted.
00:06:35.000That the base of the party has, for quite some time, been asking for some very simple things.
00:06:44.000Now, mind you, when you talk to some of the more moderate Republicans, they'll say the base wants unrealistic stuff.
00:06:59.000And can we not have shock troops, aka, the KGB running our law enforcement?
00:07:07.000If you go to every grassroots conservative across the country and you say, how about those three things?
00:07:13.000They will enthusiastically take that deal.
00:07:16.000They'll say, yes, I would love to have a sovereign country.
00:07:20.000I would love to not have a $2 trillion deficit.
00:07:25.000And I would be thrilled if the Department of Justice could for once be reined in from its terror campaign against the American right.
00:07:35.000Just yesterday, the FBI came out and they said they have an entire division dedicated just going after MAGA voters coming into the 2024 election.
00:07:50.00013 years ago, the Tea Party movement took over Washington, D.C. Some of you in the audience might not have even been that engaged in politics.
00:07:59.000Some of you might have just recently got involved because of Donald Trump.
00:08:03.000For those of us that were aware and engaged, I was just getting my start.
00:08:36.000If you take a step back, as a historian would, and you paint the picture, you write the story from Barack Obama becoming president in 2008 and ramming through Obamacare and ramming through major debts and deficits and ramming through the stimulus through a smug, elitist, I want to transform the country to the American people with a resounding message after that.
00:09:01.000In 2010, 13 years later, grassroots patriots are saying, We have sent message after message, and we have a country that is poorer, and our very simple demands are not being met.
00:09:18.000But we're told, just wait to the next election, just wait to the next iteration.
00:09:24.000In reality, when you look at this over a multi-decade view, this makes sense.
00:09:30.000This is not some sort of one-off thing or some sort of rabble-rouser.
00:09:36.000No, it's the people that are pleading, that are saying, You in charge, will you represent me and not terrorize me?
00:09:49.000Start giving me a voice, whether it be now Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan not running for reelection, and the motion to vacate.
00:09:57.000These are all elements of the same story, which is there's only so much the Republican base will take until they remove you.
00:12:27.000They want the most radical trans stuff.
00:12:30.000I am, quite honestly, envious of how in touch the Democrat Party is with their voters.
00:12:38.000The Democrat Party, they ignore some of the most radical fringe elements of the base, but they are trying to eliminate the Electoral College.
00:12:46.000They are trying to make DC and Puerto Rico states.
00:12:50.000Isn't it fascinating how the Republican Party is always the one compromising with Democrats, but Democrats are never the ones that are compromising with Republicans?
00:13:04.000That we're the ones that are always trying to make bipartisanship happen, try to make a common deal.
00:13:09.000Yet Chuck Schumer doesn't move an inch when it comes to a single priority of the Republican Party or the conservative base.
00:13:18.000I would not want to be in the Democrat Party.
00:14:42.000But I'm not shocked by this in the least because any Republican in that conference meeting that has integrity, like Ana Paulina Luna, Byron Donalds, they're saying, whoa, How about the voters?
00:15:42.000It's because our leaders keep on cutting deals with Biden.
00:15:46.000It's because our leaders keep on selling us out.
00:15:49.000And so we need someone that can then unite the clans, make this tribal warfare come to an end because it's going to get nasty.
00:16:00.000I'm going to play some pieces of tape just to show you the revenge that the regime is now exacting on those eight is going to be tough, tough to watch.
00:16:16.000You think that people that spend a decade trying to get in power in Washington, D.C. are just going to forgive when they are humiliated like that?
00:16:30.000And I'm not just talking about Speaker McCarthy.
00:16:49.000It is the ultimate kind of Star Wars empire strikes back.
00:16:54.000And I'm going to show some evidence of this.
00:16:56.000And while we want this Civil War to be brief, what has now been launched, and you just have to understand, is it's going to be the new normal of the tribes of the Republican Party that will be at each other's throats for a generation.
00:18:40.000You have an immovable out of 150 moderates.
00:18:43.000And out of those 150 moderates, I would say 50 have a legitimate argument that they have to be careful, meaning that they're in districts that are not exactly MAGA districts.
00:18:56.000100 of them are just lying to their voters that are in very conservative districts, but they act as moderates in D.C. 50 of them.
00:20:19.000This is a guy that didn't have, the media didn't give a time of day to after he was accused of sleeping with an underage girl.
00:20:26.000And there's a reason why no one in the conference came and defended him because we had all seen the videos he was showing on the House floor that all of us had walked away of the girls that he had slept with.
00:20:36.000He'd brag about how he would crush ED medicine and chase it with an energy drink so he could go all night.
00:20:44.000This is obviously before he got married.
00:20:46.000And so when that accusation came out, no one defended him.
00:20:49.000And then no one on the media would give him a time of the day.
00:20:51.000All of a sudden, he found fame because he opposed the speaker of the house.
00:23:06.000It's not a matter of, it needs to be fierce but brief and represent your voters.
00:23:12.000But understand that there's elements of this where Hakeem Jeffries and the Democrats, they are cleaning up.
00:23:18.000They're raising record amounts of money and they're going to come into these districts and they're going to obliterate us.
00:23:23.000And I don't like the I Told You So stuff, but I'm going to tell you what the I Told You So is, that when Speaker of the House becomes Hakeem Jeffries in January 2025 and his first act of business is pollut bureau committees that actually authorize subpoenas against the entire American right.
00:23:37.000They abolish Electoral College, get rid of DC of Puerto Rico estates.
00:23:41.000And regardless of the president, they'll just impeach Trump on the first day.
00:23:44.000We'll be like, oh, wow, how did this happen?
00:23:46.000Like, we're dealing with maggots, vermin, and swine here.
00:23:49.000This is not, these are not good people.
00:24:45.000There are 30 to 40 swing districts, okay?
00:24:48.000For example, you know, Siscomani's district here in Arizona, CD1 in Arizona, which encompasses Scottsdale, Cave Creek, all the way to the 51.
00:26:25.000We have a three to four seat majority in the House.
00:26:27.000And by the way, breaking news this morning, bad news, some errant judge in the deep South just put out another press release, not press release, a judgment.
00:26:42.000They're pouring tons of money into the swing districts that we won in Arizona, pouring tons of money into that Colorado district that Ken Buck currently occupies.
00:26:51.000They're trying to take out Lauren Boebert, who won by like four or five hundred votes.
00:26:55.000And so you look at the map, which is what we do, right, at turning point action.
00:26:59.000And it's almost at this point, I'd say an 80 to 90% chance that we lose the House.
00:27:04.000The only thing that could save us is a Donald Trump campaign that sweeps the nation, brings out all these new voters and completely and totally changes the game.
00:27:12.000And we're able to raise that $300 million.
00:27:15.000And understand, the candidate recruitment side of this is not insignificant.
00:27:20.000You can say whatever you want about Kevin McCarthy.
00:27:38.000So, all that to be said, which is you want to save the country, preventing Hakeem Jeffries from becoming the Speaker of the House is very, very, very important.
00:27:47.000And I was talking to Bannon yesterday, and he agrees.
00:27:50.000He's like, Charlie, the 300 million is a big problem.
00:27:56.000That every day that we are raging at one another, every day that we're at each other's throats, every day we're trying to do, you know, the Dana White thing is a day that we are not raising the capital.
00:28:05.000And again, this is strategy, tactics, principles.
00:28:08.000You have to make sure they're all in harmony.
00:28:10.000And sometimes we just kind of overlook the strategy and the tactics.
00:28:13.000And I'm here as someone who raises money for a living, someone who does this in the grassroots.
00:28:42.000So you have to balance the immediate necessary short-term fight with preventing Hakeem Jeffries from becoming Speaker of the House in 2025, who would literally execute a blitz-krieg campaign against the American right and shred the United States Constitution.
00:28:55.000Hakeem Jeffries' number one goal would be to put this thing through a shredder.
00:28:59.000I'm holding a turning point USA Constitution.
00:29:02.000And I think Jim Jordan is the guy who could raise the money.
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00:30:12.000Someone says, Charlie, you sound like the conventional country club Republican.
00:30:15.000All we need is to raise capital and get out the vote.
00:30:17.000You're the one that's being irresponsible for millions of millions of dollars less, the Republican can send out well-thought mailers stating the horribleness of the Democrat-run country.
00:34:29.000Let's get the border secure and get towards a pathway of a balanced budget and use leverage.
00:34:35.000These are very simple asks, very simple requests, while simultaneously raising the capital necessary, recruit the candidates that can excite in the districts so that we can continue to have the House of Representatives in 2025.
00:34:50.000And if you, like me, are putting everything that you have into Donald Trump becoming president, wouldn't you want him to be able to work with a Republican House, not fight with Hakeem Jeffries?
00:35:00.000For that answer alone, it's worth taking what I'm saying seriously.
00:35:07.000Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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00:35:12.000Thank you so much for listening, and God bless.
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