00:00:53.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:25.000You know, I've been running for office now for a year, but the past couple months, we've been doing really well because of our campaign ad directed by Benny Johnson.
00:01:34.000We've actually, he's done two of them.
00:01:36.000And, you know, we've had millions of views.
00:01:38.000Our first campaign ad had over 30 million views.
00:01:42.000We had more views than Michelle Obama because it was the night of the Hard DNC speech.
00:01:51.000You know, Baltimore's got a lot of problems, but I think we can fix them with common sense policies.
00:01:56.000We love Benny, and he's our chief creative officer at Turning Point, and he's been personally helping out with a lot of different projects.
00:03:52.000We were registering voters five days a week.
00:03:54.000We registered over 650 voters in an area where you would think everyone would be registered because they have the most to gain or lose.
00:04:01.000But there were a lot of people that just weren't registered to vote and didn't really, you know, keep tabs on what's going on.
00:04:06.000So we had to inform them as well as persuade them to vote for a Republican.
00:04:11.000And this is kind of what I talked about in my RNC speech.
00:04:13.000You know, Republicans have typically written off these inner cities.
00:04:17.000They're like, you know, they're going to vote down ballot.
00:04:19.000They don't, you know, they always vote for Democrats.
00:04:22.000But when we got in neighborhoods and we're talking to them and we're like, you know, what can we do to persuade you to vote for a Republican?
00:04:27.000And they're like, you're the first Republican I've ever met.
00:04:31.000And I know that's what you guys work on here at Turning Point is just pushing us to a point where actually reaching people and so they have options.
00:04:39.000And so, you know, in the streets of Baltimore, we're loved.
00:04:42.000You know, if you listen to mainstream media, we're not.
00:04:45.000But, you know, the polls show differently and the funding shows differently.
00:04:54.000And that would actually, I would hope, push Democrats to actually do their job.
00:04:59.000You know, if we get close, I mean, they're going to think, look, next time around, we could lose this seat.
00:05:04.000So maybe they would actually do what they said they're going to do.
00:05:06.000And actually get, you know, black leaders to run for office against the Democrat.
00:05:12.000I mean, the Republican Party is obviously my preference and your preference, but just why don't they start questioning the Democrat Party for what they've done?
00:05:20.000There's like a disconnect, you know, and this is crazy because the first, when we were going into these neighborhoods in the very beginning of the campaign, people were blaming President Trump.
00:05:28.000And I'm like, I'm sorry, 17,000 vacant homes.
00:05:32.000These have been sitting like this for decades.
00:06:14.000And what are some of the policies that you're pushing forward the most that are resonating in the black community?
00:06:21.000So a big one is, and why I'm here in Arizona talking to the kids at ALA is school choice, you know, charter schools, getting them vouchers.
00:06:28.000We have, out of 39 high schools in Baltimore City, 13 of them have students that graduate not proficient in math.
00:06:35.000It's like, what do you expect these kids to do but go on the streets and end up in that kind of lifestyle when you don't even educate them?
00:06:41.000In the state of Maryland, we have 35 failing schools.
00:06:44.00023 of them are in low-income neighborhoods in Baltimore.
00:06:47.000You know, this is, there's a problem there.
00:07:35.000So I was actually on a local channel just three days ago doing a candidate conversation because he declined six times to come and debate me.
00:07:48.000But he says he's just not going to debate me.
00:07:51.000And I've noticed a lot of comments on the Facebook page under my candidate conversation that they had to change it to since there was no debate.
00:08:02.000You know, I don't want to vote for a Republican, but the fact that he didn't even show up and give us a debate, you know, so the people can decide, you know, a lot of people felt it was disrespectful.
00:08:59.000And to hear Michelle Obama now talking about the riots and the looting across the country as if it's nothing, as it's mostly peaceful protesting.
00:09:08.000You know, I think, you know, sitting in your mansion in Martha's Vineyard, you can say stuff like that.
00:09:12.000But for us that are in the streets every day, I mean, it's just, they're so out of touch.
00:09:16.000So I turned to Republican Party in 2009.
00:09:20.000I joined the Baltimore County Republican Central Committee in 2018.
00:09:23.000Started to learn more about campaigns and how to get involved.
00:09:27.000And then I threw my hat in the ring last November.
00:09:30.000And so have you been before the ad, was the National Republican Party talking to you at all?
00:09:54.000So Dirk Hare is a chairman of MGGOP, but they said, we're not going to exhaust donors by having them donate to your campaign because we can't.
00:10:03.000And I said, okay, well, I guess I'll go out there and try to make my own money for this race because at some point in time, you got to start chipping away, right?
00:10:10.000You know, just to walk away and do nothing.
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00:13:03.000And so, you know, you have people going to jail for just petty things, for long sentences, and again, breaking out the family structure and taking a lot of black men out of the homes.
00:14:15.000For any race, that would be a tough situation.
00:14:17.000But these are Democrats that offered these things.
00:14:20.000If you look at Section 8 and you look at Section 3, people don't realize this, but Section 3 is just like Section 8, but the man could stay in the home.
00:14:28.000So why on earth did we adopt Section 8 over Section 3?
00:15:13.000No, it's not going into the black community.
00:15:15.000And that's what I put on Twitter every once in a while.
00:15:17.000I'm like, look, if you want to support this organization, please just see whether or not they're supporting black lives, you know?
00:15:25.000And if you look down into it, they're not.
00:15:26.000You know, I hear all the time, LeBron James speaks up for them.
00:15:29.000You've got all these athletes and celebrities speaking up for them, but that money isn't making it to the black community, just like federal dollars that were supposed to be in the black community in Baltimore City, right?
00:15:40.000We've had billions of dollars sent to our Penn North Corridor.
00:15:47.000No, not nice at all, but for years, supposedly billions of dollars have been going to that area.
00:15:53.000And the only thing, and what we have seen is the further deterioration of the black community, the more the Democrats have gotten involved.
00:16:01.000And so I think part of it, though, is this constant fear-mongering to the black community that there is a white boogeyman out there that just wants to keep them down and destroy them.
00:16:11.000And Republicans have done an awful job until President Trump.
00:16:15.000President Trump's the first candidate to kind of ask for the black community's vote.
00:16:27.000I mean, we'll see in the final tallying.
00:16:29.000Well, I honestly think it's going to be more.
00:16:31.000I think there's a lot of people that Karen is seeing that.
00:16:34.000Yes, because of my race here in Baltimore.
00:16:36.000I mean, I just think there's going to be more because there's a lot of people that don't want the backlash.
00:16:41.000You know, you don't want to say you support President Trump.
00:16:43.000I have people that say they don't want my sign in their yard because it links me to Trump and they don't want the issues, but they are voting for me and Trump.
00:16:51.000And so, you know, we see people doing these polls all the time, but this is what's happening with the Democrat Party, the whole cancel culture.
00:16:57.000They'll never get an accurate poll moving forward because of the way they do these things.
00:17:02.000But yeah, I think President Trump's going to do even more.
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00:18:39.000You were making a great point about the record of results for Donald Trump.
00:21:47.000We weren't allowed to speak slang in the home.
00:21:49.000We weren't allowed because my dad said, there's one day you're going to go and you're going to go to a job interview and I want you to get the job.
00:21:55.000And so I don't understand how this is about being white.
00:21:58.000But I guess whatever it is to make victims feel better at the end of the day.
00:23:25.000And I was like, wait, if you would have had someone help you put that idea down and actually understand how to make that into an actual business and be successful in that way, that person that did the hack ride could have been the creative of Uber, you know?
00:26:15.000You know, if you stand up for yourself, there are people that push you back.
00:26:19.000And a lot of times white liberals do push you back.
00:26:21.000And I try to point out to people, you know, Malcolm X once said, the media will have you thinking the oppressed, the oppressor is the oppressed.
00:26:30.000And that's what we are seeing right now.
00:26:32.000I think that is exactly what we're seeing.
00:26:33.000President Trump is doing such a great job, but we're being told he's the racist.
00:26:37.000Whereas Joe Biden, who's oppressed us for a very long time, years in office, especially as a center, but he's supposedly the great guy that everyone should vote for.
00:26:47.000So it's about, you know, opening your eyes and understanding and taking a stance.
00:26:50.000Don't ever be afraid is what I tell people.
00:27:13.000And then there's some black people that'll say, you know, they'll DM me, you know, and be like, hey, I can't really say anything, but I love what you're saying because you're right.
00:27:21.000You know, we have given them so many chances.
00:27:23.000And when they say we, Democrats, so many chances to do well and right by our community, and they haven't.
00:27:30.000And then there are some people that are fully on board, like myself, who says, get these people out of office, you know, and they're rooted.
00:27:37.000They're like, we're rooting for you, Kim.
00:27:38.000You know, we're rooting for you to do this because, you know, people might see the race in Baltimore, but this is something that could happen in every major inner city across the country.
00:27:47.000Hopefully we can use this as a template moving forward.
00:27:50.000Yeah, I mean, I think that win or lose, you should help raise money for black candidates to run for office.
00:28:56.000There was a poll that went out by Gallup.
00:28:58.00081% of black Americans do not want to defund the police.
00:29:01.000The only people saying that are the people that walk around with security detail that don't live in dangerous neighborhoods and like Michelle Obama, you know, living in a mansion in Martha's Vineyard.
00:29:10.000When really, when you're there and you understand we have, right now we're down police considering the population size.
00:29:21.000Like I said, we had over 300 murders the past five years, over 700 shootings the past five years, and over 400 carjackings, armed carjackings in the past five years.
00:29:31.000It is dangerous, but a lot of people are afraid to leave their home.
00:30:36.000What I always laugh about on the reparations argument is that people say that voter ID is racist.
00:30:42.000And then they say you're supposed to get your paperwork together to prove that you come from slaves.
00:30:45.000I'm like, if you can get your paperwork together to prove you come from slaves, you can show your ID to vote.
00:30:51.000I think that if you can get your ninth generation family lineage together, but BLM said that the stealing that they were doing in Chicago was reparations, that they deserve it.
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00:32:45.000We have to really take education seriously and understand this is the difference between black Americans most of the time and African immigrants.
00:32:53.000You know, Nigerians come to this country and they value education.
00:33:40.000Basically, what I tell people, if you look at the criminal justice reform that Trump is working on, he's rolling back a lot of what happened with that 1994 crime bill.
00:33:46.000So there is things that we have to roll back.
00:33:49.000And then we have to come together and be unified and say, look, this is why family structure is so important.
00:33:54.000This is why I voted for President Barack Obama.
00:34:05.000And I think that empowering the churches, and I mean, what I can't understand is these black churches that are mobilizing their congregation to go vote for Democrats.
00:34:13.000It's like, guys, maybe 20 years ago, I wouldn't have agreed with them, but 50 years, we have spent $26 trillion and the black community is poorer per capita.
00:35:02.000Yeah, no, but Pastor Simmons, the guy that we talk to often, he said, look, he made us promises that he did not keep, and we're done with it.
00:35:08.000You know, we're done with the crime and violence.
00:35:10.000We're done with some of our people in our congregation feeling like they can't leave their homes.
00:35:20.000I think that's going to push us over the top.
00:35:22.000And the idea of faith and the idea of life is a very big issue in the black community because abortion has just devastated the black community since Roe versus Wade.