The Charlie Kirk Show - February 28, 2024


Why Michigan Is Causing Panic in the Biden Camp


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Part of the Blue Wall is becoming a battleground state, we talk about the results from Pure Michigan. We have said for quite some time that the road to the White House will include winning Georgia, Arizona, and I m feeling better and better about Georgia.

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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, to the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:00:02.000 A part of the blue wall is becoming a battleground state.
00:00:06.000 We talk about the results from Pure Michigan.
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00:01:48.000 We have said for quite some time that the road to the White House will include winning Georgia, winning Arizona.
00:01:55.000 And I'm feeling better and better about Georgia, feeling better and better about Arizona.
00:01:59.000 We have some heartbreaking news out of Georgia that we will cover later this hour about how illegal crime, illegals committing crime, is continuing to murder American citizens. 0.50
00:02:10.000 Of course, the terrible story of Lakin, what happened at University of Georgia when a savage, illegal, beat her skull to a pulp.
00:02:18.000 It's what happens when you have open borders in this country.
00:02:22.000 So feeling better and better about Georgia.
00:02:23.000 Arizona is going to be tight, but feeling better and better.
00:02:26.000 And you have to get to 270 electoral votes.
00:02:31.000 You go to 270towin.com.
00:02:33.000 Now, we have been very clear about this for quite some time.
00:02:37.000 In order to get to 270 electoral votes, the combination is Donald Trump will win Iowa.
00:02:42.000 He will win Ohio.
00:02:43.000 He will win North Carolina.
00:02:45.000 And he will win Florida.
00:02:47.000 So then it kind of leaves the question of, well, who's going to win?
00:02:50.000 Arizona, Georgia.
00:02:52.000 So let's say Trump wins Arizona and Georgia.
00:02:54.000 For argument's sake, let's just say Nevada goes blue, even though I think it has a chance to tilt red.
00:03:00.000 And there you're left with the question of the blue wall.
00:03:06.000 Now, we've been emphasizing for quite some time that the blue wall from 2016 is going to be Joe Biden or the whoever the Democrat nominee is, their last stand, recreating the blue wall.
00:03:20.000 The blue wall is three states: Pennsylvania with 19 electoral votes, Michigan with 15 electoral votes, and Wisconsin with 10 electoral votes.
00:03:31.000 Again, you must get to 270 electoral votes.
00:03:36.000 The map has slightly changed since 2020 to actually favor Donald Trump and favor Republicans.
00:03:43.000 For example, Texas now has 40 electoral votes.
00:03:47.000 Back in 2020, it had 38 electoral votes.
00:03:51.000 Florida now has 30 electoral votes.
00:03:53.000 Back in 2020, it had 29 electoral votes.
00:03:57.000 In 2020, Illinois had 20 electoral votes.
00:04:00.000 Now it has 19 electoral votes.
00:04:02.000 Back in 2020, California had 55 electoral votes.
00:04:06.000 Now it has 54 electoral votes.
00:04:08.000 Back in 2020, New York had 29 electoral votes.
00:04:10.000 Now it has 28.
00:04:12.000 All of this adds up.
00:04:14.000 Red states more, blue states less.
00:04:17.000 Easier for a Republican to become president.
00:04:22.000 So it's all going to come down to the blue wall.
00:04:24.000 Can Donald Trump win a single one of the blue wall states?
00:04:29.000 If yes, and he wins Arizona, Georgia, he's president of the United States.
00:04:34.000 It's that simple.
00:04:35.000 And to this show's credit and to Turning Point Action's credit, we have been incredibly clear and ahead of all the other prognosticators on this.
00:04:47.000 They talk about national polls.
00:04:48.000 They talk about favorability.
00:04:49.000 Say, no, no, no.
00:04:50.000 You just have to win one out of three of the blue wall.
00:04:55.000 Now, earlier this week, we had Tyler Boyer.
00:04:58.000 We had Brett from Wisconsin who does a great job of running our programming at Turning Point Action.
00:05:02.000 We're hiring hundreds of people.
00:05:03.000 No one's hiring what Turning Point Action is doing.
00:05:05.000 No one's coming even close.
00:05:07.000 It is an unprecedented grassroots deployment of full-time workers on the ground that will be chasing ballots and finding and getting out the vote for low-propensity voters, registering voters, building coalitions.
00:05:19.000 It's an incredible endeavor.
00:05:21.000 And I'm so just excited to see it grow at Turning Point Action.
00:05:26.000 The RNC is doing none of this work.
00:05:28.000 Hopefully that will change, but who will they even hire?
00:05:31.000 The RNC is not really capable of scaling up in the same way that we see that Turning Point Action has, but we'll put that aside.
00:05:40.000 So the blue wall is Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania.
00:05:45.000 You need to win one of those.
00:05:46.000 Let's start with Pennsylvania.
00:05:48.000 Pennsylvania is a tempting state.
00:05:50.000 Pennsylvania should go to Donald Trump, but Pennsylvania has some of the more crooked election laws in the country.
00:05:58.000 We see now John Fetterman becoming a U.S. Senator because of a superior voter infrastructure to be able to get out the vote and very relaxed and dare I say, somewhat fraudulent voting practices in Philadelphia.
00:06:15.000 So Pennsylvania is tough.
00:06:16.000 I am not going to go all in on Pennsylvania.
00:06:18.000 It's an expensive state.
00:06:21.000 It is a beast of a state with 19 electoral votes.
00:06:25.000 So let's put Pennsylvania aside.
00:06:27.000 We spoke at length about Wisconsin.
00:06:29.000 Wisconsin is, of the three, the easiest on the surface level for Donald Trump to win again.
00:06:36.000 Wisconsin elects Ron Johnson.
00:06:38.000 Donald Trump won that state and got those electoral votes in 2016.
00:06:43.000 In 2020, according to the official tally, he fell 20,000 votes short.
00:06:49.000 On the same token, though, the Wisconsin Supreme Court race was a wake-up call.
00:06:52.000 Wisconsin is a very difficult state to poll.
00:06:55.000 Wisconsin is a difficult state to navigate.
00:06:59.000 Lots of 15,000, 20,000, 13,000 person towns.
00:07:05.000 One, for example, is Whitewater, Wisconsin.
00:07:09.000 Whitewater, Wisconsin is a town of 15,000 people in rural Wisconsin.
00:07:13.000 They've grown by 2,000 people, all illegals, because of Biden's border meltdown.
00:07:20.000 That's five times as much growth as the migrant flood has brought New York City to its knees. 1.00
00:07:25.000 So these small towns of Wisconsin are ripping apart at the seams.
00:07:30.000 They can't hire enough ESL, English as a second language teachers.
00:07:34.000 Their hospitals are overrun.
00:07:35.000 Their crime is going up.
00:07:37.000 Burglaries, rapes, arson, murder.
00:07:40.000 Incredible story at freebeacon.com, how the border crisis hits a small Wisconsin town.
00:07:45.000 And what we've been covering a little bit, and now we're seeing real evidence, everybody, that maybe, maybe One part of the blue wall that might have been cast aside as a fool's errand could be back in play.
00:08:01.000 It could force the Democrats to spend another couple hundred million dollars.
00:08:04.000 It could force the Democrats to play in a state that could diffuse their resources.
00:08:08.000 And that is, of course, the great state of Michigan.
00:08:13.000 Known as the Great Lakes State, Michigan is one of my favorite places on the planet.
00:08:18.000 There's nothing like a summer in Michigan.
00:08:20.000 Growing up in Chicago, you would see the ads.
00:08:23.000 We got to get that ad, by the way, Ryan.
00:08:25.000 The Pure Michigan ad.
00:08:26.000 Did they run it here in the West?
00:08:27.000 Do you guys know what I'm talking about?
00:08:28.000 Or is that just the Midwest thing?
00:08:30.000 The Pure Michigan ads?
00:08:33.000 The Pure Michigan ads were always running on Chicago television.
00:08:36.000 Some of my best memories are going up near Potoski and Lake Walloon in the midst of a summer.
00:08:42.000 It's just a special slice of God's gift to humanity.
00:08:46.000 Ryan says, I have no idea.
00:08:47.000 Type in Pure Michigan to YouTube.
00:08:48.000 You'll see it.
00:08:49.000 It's a 30-second tourist infomercial.
00:08:51.000 Very popular in the Midwest.
00:08:53.000 Michigan is typically a Democrat state, but remember, Donald Trump won Michigan in 2016, surprisingly.
00:09:00.000 Wayne County, auto workers, muscular class, people that work with their hands, the decent folks in western Michigan, the Dutch Calvinist Christians that rose up in big numbers in Holland, Michigan, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
00:09:18.000 Michigan's a great spot, filled with college towns as well of East Lansing, Michigan State University, Ann Arbor.
00:09:26.000 It's a little bit difficult for a Republican to win statewide.
00:09:30.000 Did you know last evening was the Michigan primary?
00:09:33.000 Got very little coverage, had almost no fanfare leading up.
00:09:37.000 Donald Trump didn't even visit the day of to celebrate his victory.
00:09:42.000 He called into the celebration speech.
00:09:43.000 Donald Trump won by 40 points.
00:09:46.000 But that's not the big takeaway.
00:09:47.000 The big takeaway is instead what we have been wondering, we've been curious: will the Arabs, will the Muslims of Dearborn, Michigan, will they be loyal to Joe Biden and the Democrat Party?
00:10:06.000 Will they be loyal to the regime?
00:10:10.000 The October 7th atrocity against Israel has inspired this pro-Palestinian Arab movement. 0.57
00:10:23.000 And the results from the Democrat primary are a fire alarm for Joe Biden.
00:10:30.000 At the very least, it shows that Michigan is now in play.
00:10:34.000 Michigan is in the mix.
00:10:38.000 Just so happens, we're hosting our big summer event in Detroit, Michigan, of all places.
00:10:43.000 Almost feels like divine planning.
00:10:47.000 Wait till I share with you what happened in the Democrat Party primary in Michigan last evening.
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00:11:59.000 It wasn't a good day for Joe Biden, though, everybody.
00:12:01.000 Thanks, Ryan, for getting that.
00:12:03.000 We got lots of emails during the break.
00:12:05.000 People said, oh, they run these ads in California and all this.
00:12:07.000 And I don't know, our native California team doesn't know it as much, but pure Michigan.
00:12:13.000 Well, it wasn't a good night for Joe Biden.
00:12:15.000 So, of course, we must understand and remember that Michigan has a lot of people from foreign countries, Rashida Talib types, Arab Muslim, pro-Palestinian types.
00:12:26.000 And they're very upset with Joe Biden's support of Israel, even though Joe Biden has not been that supportive of Israel, which is what's remarkable.
00:12:34.000 So Michigan had its primary vote last night for both parties.
00:12:37.000 Donald Trump smashed Haley by 40 points.
00:12:40.000 Okay, that's not really news.
00:12:42.000 The big story is what happened on the Democrat side.
00:12:45.000 Joe Biden won with 81% of the vote.
00:12:48.000 But what was very interesting is who was in second place.
00:12:52.000 More than 13% of the vote, over 100,000 people cast a vote for uncommitted.
00:13:02.000 So what's going on here?
00:13:04.000 You might have already guessed.
00:13:05.000 Michigan has a large Arab American population.
00:13:08.000 They are furious with Joe Biden over his support for Israel since the October 7th Hamas attack.
00:13:14.000 So they created a group called, quote, Listen to Michigan.
00:13:18.000 And their agenda was to send a warning shot to Biden.
00:13:21.000 Well, mission accomplished.
00:13:22.000 The lead story on the New York Times today, my handy dandy New York Times, isn't Trump or isn't Ukraine or the border?
00:13:31.000 The lead story is Michigan.
00:13:34.000 Uncommitted actually beat Biden in Dearborn.
00:13:38.000 So let's zero in on that.
00:13:43.000 100,000 people go out to a Democrat primary and do a protest vote against Joe Biden.
00:13:55.000 The official tally said that Donald Trump fell 150,000 votes short.
00:14:00.000 Can we get the exact number, guys?
00:14:01.000 That's off the top of my head.
00:14:02.000 In 2020, 150,000 votes short in 2020.
00:14:09.000 You have 100,000 people that go out and do an uncommitted vote.
00:14:15.000 And I got to give credit to the Arabs here.
00:14:20.000 I got to give credit to them.
00:14:21.000 I mean, I am not sympathetic to their cause whatsoever.
00:14:24.000 I'm on America's side.
00:14:26.000 I'm on Israel's side.
00:14:27.000 I'm on the civilization side.
00:14:29.000 I got to give these Arab Muslim voters credit.
00:14:34.000 This is quite a way to make a headline. 0.96
00:14:36.000 You have more people talking about your cause than that lunatic that lit himself on fire, mentally deranged freak outside of the, what is that, Air Force or something? 1.00
00:14:47.000 Jeez, sick person. 0.99
00:14:51.000 This is a great way to, you're sending a message to Joe Biden here. 0.95
00:14:54.000 You got to give credit where credit is due. 0.85
00:14:57.000 Oh, the lunatic let himself on fire in front of the Israeli embassy. 0.51
00:15:02.000 What a freedom fighter.
00:15:04.000 The plan is now for this protest vote to take off in other upcoming Democrat primaries, especially obviously Minnesota.
00:15:12.000 Minnesota has a major Muslim vote, and they're voting next week on Super Tuesday.
00:15:18.000 They've organized a group, Uncommitted Minnesota, organizing the same kind of protest vote there.
00:15:23.000 So if Donald Trump were to do better in western Michigan, if Donald Trump could run up the score in northern Michigan, if Donald Trump can do even better with auto workers and Debbie Dingell, remember Debbie Dingell?
00:15:37.000 Debbie Dingell, who is a congresswoman from Michigan?
00:15:40.000 She is very consistent in cautioning National Democrats that Trump does well in Michigan.
00:15:45.000 Trump speaks to the muscular class.
00:15:47.000 Now, there is some major discontent right now for the auto workers, the UAW and their families that work for Ford, that work for Chrysler, because of this electric vehicle push.
00:16:04.000 There's a big skirmish happening right now with the big auto companies, big time.
00:16:10.000 Donald Trump has always done well speaking in Wayne County, speaking in Macomb County, speaking to the folks that shower before work and after work, the people that build this country, the manufacturing base.
00:16:25.000 Donald Trump has always done well with them.
00:16:27.000 So let's just say theoretically that this 100,000 vote taper, by the way, that's in a primary.
00:16:34.000 So you could scale that.
00:16:35.000 That means that it's about a 200 to 300,000 undervote that Joe Biden might be facing in Michigan.
00:16:41.000 I don't want to get too ahead of ourselves, everybody, but if the Arab Muslim activists in Dearborn, Michigan continue this trend, Michigan is right in play. 1.00
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00:17:51.000 Some breaking news, everybody.
00:17:53.000 Senator Mitch McConnell will not run for re-election.
00:18:00.000 Not re-election, will not run for the Senate Republican leader, signaling that he probably won't run for re-election.
00:18:07.000 So he is done as Senate Republican leader in November.
00:18:12.000 This is terrific news, everybody.
00:18:14.000 McConnell is disconnected from the voters.
00:18:17.000 He cares about Ukraine more than America. 0.70
00:18:19.000 He has been holding up any sort of progress in the U.S. Senate.
00:18:23.000 And we must be very clear.
00:18:25.000 We want Rick Scott, not John Thune, as leader of the U.S. Senate.
00:18:32.000 And let's talk about the U.S. Senate map.
00:18:34.000 And it kind of plays into the Michigan trend, too, a little bit, because we don't talk about the Senate, lots on the presidency.
00:18:39.000 So right now, the U.S. Senate is 5149 advantaged Democrats.
00:18:44.000 However, West Virginia is basically a 99.9% certainty will become a Republican Senate seat because Joe Manch is not running for reelection.
00:18:54.000 So it's 50-50.
00:18:55.000 So if Donald Trump wins the presidency, we control the Senate because whoever he chooses as the vice president will be the tiebreaker because the vice president is also the president of the Senate.
00:19:08.000 If we are able to win one of the Senate races that should be in our advantage, we're able to then control the U.S. Senate and with a better Senate majority leader.
00:19:22.000 Rick Scott is terrific.
00:19:24.000 I don't agree with Rick Scott on everything.
00:19:25.000 He's got some stuff on taxes I don't like.
00:19:29.000 His plan was largely great.
00:19:31.000 But here's what I'll say about Rick Scott.
00:19:32.000 He comes on this program.
00:19:34.000 He answers the tough questions.
00:19:35.000 He works his tail off.
00:19:37.000 He was a successful governor.
00:19:38.000 He was a successful private sector business leader.
00:19:42.000 He listens to the grassroots.
00:19:44.000 He speaks at turning point events.
00:19:46.000 What an upgrade Senator Rick Scott would be beyond Mr. Turtle McConnell.
00:19:53.000 Now, if we want to take back the Senate, we have to win one or both, but one of the best chance Senate races against incumbent Democrats that we have.
00:20:06.000 And they are Montana and Ohio.
00:20:10.000 Montana by far is our best opportunity.
00:20:13.000 Now, the primary field has been cleared.
00:20:15.000 Matt Rosendale, who I really like, decided to no longer run in the Republican primary in the state of Montana.
00:20:22.000 And the candidate will be Tim Sheehee.
00:20:24.000 Tim Sheehee, I had a chance to meet him last week.
00:20:27.000 Can we get a picture of Tim Sheehee?
00:20:29.000 This guy is like Tom Cruise in top gun.
00:20:32.000 I'll tell you, he is like central casting.
00:20:34.000 It's almost like AI generated him.
00:20:37.000 I mean, he's like six foot one, zero body fat, trimmed, business leader, four kids.
00:20:46.000 And some of you say, oh, he's too establishment.
00:20:48.000 I'm just talking about the aesthetic.
00:20:50.000 I mean, Tim Sheehee, he looks like Tom Cruise in his prime or, I mean, look at that.
00:20:56.000 It's like right out of central casting.
00:20:58.000 Navy SEAL.
00:20:59.000 I think he's a Purple Heart recipient.
00:21:01.000 Very impressive.
00:21:02.000 Gave a great speech.
00:21:03.000 And he's probably more adventurous on the neoconservative stuff than I would like.
00:21:09.000 But to his credit, at this private fundraiser he was speaking at, he went hard on the border.
00:21:13.000 He said, let me tell you, all of you guys, let me tell you right now.
00:21:16.000 These are not your typical migrant workers coming across the border.
00:21:20.000 You're being invaded, and we have to stop it.
00:21:22.000 So I think he's got a great chance.
00:21:23.000 He's up against the J.B. Pritzker type named John Tester.
00:21:28.000 John Tester is the incumbent Democrat senator for Montana.
00:21:32.000 John Tester has not had a serious challenge in a presidential year in quite some time.
00:21:37.000 In a presidential year with Donald Trump bringing out record turnout in the state of Montana, Sheehy has an opportunity.
00:21:44.000 The Montana Senate race will end up being the most expensive per-vote race in American history.
00:21:52.000 That's what Senator Daines and Tim Sheehee have told me.
00:21:55.000 It will probably end up being, get this, a $400 million race for a Senate race in Montana.
00:22:04.000 There's only over, how many people are in Montana?
00:22:07.000 Over a million people?
00:22:08.000 What's the population?
00:22:09.000 No, I think it's more than that now.
00:22:10.000 I think it's like 1.4, 1.5, because they have two congressional seats.
00:22:15.000 I'm not sure.
00:22:16.000 I might be off on that.
00:22:18.000 You're going to spend $350 to $400 million.
00:22:21.000 Okay, it's 1.1 is the population of Montana.
00:22:24.000 1.1.
00:22:24.000 You're going to spend $400 million.
00:22:27.000 Okay, but if we can win Montana, we control the Senate.
00:22:30.000 And McConnell will not be leader.
00:22:32.000 And we have to be very clear from the beginning.
00:22:37.000 John Thune will not become majority leader.
00:22:41.000 Say it with me.
00:22:42.000 John Thune will not become majority leader.
00:22:45.000 We need to consolidate behind Rick Scott.
00:22:48.000 He is the man.
00:22:49.000 The other race is Ohio. 0.98
00:22:51.000 The Ohio primary is underway.
00:22:53.000 The best candidate is by far Bernie Moreno.
00:22:56.000 Bernie Moreno is up against a very slippery snake by the name of Sherrod Brown.
00:23:01.000 And Bernie Moreno can win that race.
00:23:03.000 There's other Senate races where we could potentially be like a Carrie Lake in Arizona. 0.99
00:23:06.000 We've endorsed her. 1.00
00:23:07.000 She's doing a great job.
00:23:08.000 That's a tougher race for us to win.
00:23:11.000 Oh, is the turtle speaking?
00:23:13.000 Oh, we have to get this.
00:23:14.000 We got to get part of that.
00:23:17.000 You know, some people say, Charlie, I don't like that you call him the turtle.
00:23:20.000 What's his name?
00:23:22.000 I don't matter what that is.
00:23:24.000 By the way, I didn't come up with it.
00:23:25.000 It is a little hat tip to the great Rush Limbaugh.
00:23:28.000 So if you have a problem with it, you got a problem with Rush Limbaugh.
00:23:31.000 Yeah, let's get Mr. McConnell.
00:23:35.000 I want to see that.
00:23:36.000 McConnell is so out of touch with his voters.
00:23:38.000 He wants nothing to do with securing the border, nothing to do about a strong America.
00:23:43.000 So obsessed with Ukraine, so obsessed with the abstractions abroad, stepping down as leader about time.
00:23:53.000 That's some good news, everybody.
00:23:55.000 Some good news for the improvement and the betterment and the strengthening of the Republican Conference.
00:24:02.000 The path forward for the Republican Party is very promising.
00:24:08.000 I hope you understand that in the last week, this week, you have official confirmation that McRomney, Ronna McRomney, and McConnell are stepping aside.
00:24:19.000 That's a big deal.
00:24:21.000 They would not be stepping aside if they thought that Trump was just a phenomenon.
00:24:27.000 Here's the good news, everybody.
00:24:29.000 Every election, every retirement is improving the Republican Party.
00:24:32.000 The young faction of the Republican Party, the JD Vance, the Ted Cruz, the Josh Hawley, the Eric Schmidt faction, is far better than the McConnell, John Thune faction.
00:24:51.000 Far better.
00:24:52.000 McConnell's out there talking about how we need to give more money to Ukraine.
00:24:56.000 Now, the fact, this is the power of you, the audience.
00:25:00.000 And for those of you that watch every day and you make the phone calls that we ask you and you contribute and you stay in a state of prayer and fasting, and you are in the trenches, this is a huge win for you.
00:25:12.000 McConnell would not be doing this if he thought that the Trump thing was just a phenomenon.
00:25:18.000 This is a permanent, seismic, ideological shift in the Republican Party that makes our ideas more popular, that makes our movement ascendant.
00:25:28.000 We're not afraid to engage in the culture war issues.
00:25:30.000 We're not afraid to be skeptical of foreign wars abroad.
00:25:35.000 And honestly, I have to, if you just look across the board, that it is a demand of this new Republican Party that we have to have a border.
00:25:43.000 You have to have a southern border.
00:25:45.000 You cannot have millions and millions of people coming into your country every single year and act as if you still have a country.
00:25:51.000 It's unsustainable.
00:25:53.000 So McConnell stepping down, that should just be jet fuel for us.
00:25:59.000 By the way, John Cornyn might want, I don't care if it's John Cornyn.
00:26:04.000 I don't care if it's John Thune.
00:26:07.000 Get him out of the way.
00:26:08.000 Rick Scott.
00:26:09.000 Rick Scott can unite the tribes.
00:26:11.000 He works his tail off.
00:26:12.000 And some of you say, oh, you know, I don't like Rick Scott.
00:26:15.000 I'm telling you right now, he is a good man.
00:26:17.000 He's the best option.
00:26:18.000 I don't agree with him on everything.
00:26:20.000 All right.
00:26:21.000 This is the turtle, Play Cut 83.
00:26:22.000 To serve Kentucky in the Senate has been the honor of my life.
00:26:28.000 To lead my Republican colleagues has been the highest privilege.
00:26:35.000 But one of life's most underappreciated talents is to know when it's time to move on to life's next chapter.
00:26:48.000 So I stand before you today, Mr. President and my colleagues, to say this will be my last term as Republican leader of the Senate.
00:26:58.000 I'm not going anywhere anytime soon.
00:27:03.000 However, I'll complete my job.
00:27:05.000 My colleagues are giving me until we select a new leader in November and they take the helm next January.
00:27:15.000 New leader, do not lose sight of this.
00:27:18.000 It's very important that we start to do roll calls, win or lose the Senate.
00:27:23.000 By the way, worst case scenario, we're in a 50-50 Senate.
00:27:26.000 Worst case scenario.
00:27:28.000 Worst case scenario, Joe Biden or Democrat wins the presidency and they barely control the Senate.
00:27:32.000 The Senate majority leader is going to be so important to use leverage to cut spending, to balance the budget, to secure the border, to stop this funding of wars.
00:27:42.000 We actually might have a senate again.
00:27:44.000 Imagine a senate leader that works with Speaker Johnson, doesn't oppose or undermine Speaker Johnson, and says, We're shutting down the government.
00:27:52.000 We're going to cut spending.
00:27:53.000 We're ending all this nonsensical funding of wars abroad.
00:27:59.000 So he's stepping aside.
00:28:00.000 That is a huge win for this movement.
00:28:04.000 This movement is gaining popularity.
00:28:08.000 His grip on power is weakening.
00:28:11.000 Praise God.
00:28:15.000 It's a big win today, everybody.
00:28:17.000 Not to mention the good news out of Michigan and the Arab Muslims that are defecting from Biden.
00:28:22.000 We're going to stay on it.
00:28:25.000 So you look at the senators.
00:28:26.000 I mean, for example, Tommy Tubberville, I think he'd be on Team Rick Scott.
00:28:30.000 Katie Britt, I don't know.
00:28:31.000 I think you could convince her.
00:28:33.000 Not my favorite. 1.00
00:28:34.000 Lisa Murkowski would be Team Cornyn.
00:28:37.000 Dan Sullivan would be Team Cornyn.
00:28:38.000 Boozman would be Cornyn.
00:28:40.000 Tom Cotton could be one over for Rick Scott.
00:28:44.000 Marco Rubio, I think, would definitely go with Rick Scott.
00:28:48.000 Mike Crapo from Idaho.
00:28:50.000 By the way, for all of our patriots in Idaho right now, I hope you're listening.
00:28:55.000 I will be happy to visit the great state of Idaho and get you guys a better set of senators up there.
00:29:04.000 You deserve better than those warmongers.
00:29:06.000 And I've met Jim Risch, met him at a party recently, a couple years ago.
00:29:12.000 He was very kind, but then I see the stuff he votes for, and it's just outrageous.
00:29:19.000 The warmongering foreign funding for my Idaho Patriots out there, and there are a lot that listen to this program, I will happily return to the state of Idaho and help you guys get better leaders in Idaho.
00:29:33.000 Idaho is a great opportunity for improvement.
00:29:36.000 Todd Young, who has been a huge disappointment from Indiana, he'll probably be part of the Cornyn crowd. 1.00
00:29:42.000 Mike Braun is resigning.
00:29:44.000 This is a good one, everybody.
00:29:45.000 Jim Banks.
00:29:46.000 I haven't heard much out of the Indiana primary.
00:29:48.000 How is Jim Banks doing?
00:29:49.000 I think he's doing well, right?
00:29:50.000 If Jim Banks wins that primary, he'll definitely go with Rick Scott.
00:29:54.000 Jim Banks is excellent.
00:29:56.000 Joni Ernst, waste of time, with Chuck Grassley.
00:30:00.000 They'll be in the Cornyn category.
00:30:01.000 Jerry Moran, good question.
00:30:04.000 I don't know who he'd be with.
00:30:05.000 Probably Cornyn.
00:30:06.000 Roger Marshall, you might be able to get to Rick Scott.
00:30:08.000 McConnell would do whatever is awful for the country.
00:30:10.000 So he'll probably go to Cornyn.
00:30:12.000 Rand Paul would definitely be for Rick Scott.
00:30:14.000 Bill Cassidy and John Kennedy, unfortunately, would be for Cornyn.
00:30:17.000 Susan Collins would be for Cornyn and or Thuna Brasso.
00:30:21.000 Wicker and Cindy Hyde-Smith would be for that group over there.
00:30:26.000 Missouri, Hawley and Schmidt.
00:30:28.000 Steve Daines and Deb Fisher, TBD and Pete Ricketts, probably more on the Cornyn side.
00:30:33.000 Tom Tillis, Ted Budd, Hovind, Kramer.
00:30:37.000 JD Vance would probably be more on the side of reality, let's say.
00:30:44.000 And then, of course, we have James Lankford, who I hope resigns very soon.
00:30:47.000 Mark Wayne Mullen, who I've actually struck up a friendship with.
00:30:52.000 Lindsey Graham would do whatever the Intel agencies tell him to.
00:30:56.000 Tim Scott, I'm not sure.
00:30:57.000 And then John Thune, Mike Rounds.
00:30:58.000 So what I'm getting at is that, and then you have Mike Lee who will help, and Ted Cruz, that would definitely vote.
00:31:03.000 Bill Haggerty, Marsha Blackburn have been terrific.
00:31:05.000 It would be tough.
00:31:07.000 I'm just doing some off-the-cuff math.
00:31:09.000 Within five or six votes of having a new leader, everybody.
00:31:11.000 It's a long-term project, but McConnell stepping down is an excellent development.
00:31:17.000 So let's summarize this hour.
00:31:19.000 News out of Michigan for Democrat operatives is they're going to now have to staff up and spend significant funds in Michigan, period.
00:31:26.000 That is excellent from a strategic standpoint.
00:31:28.000 The Democrats wanted to chalk up Michigan like it was New York or chalk up Michigan like it was the state of Oregon.
00:31:36.000 Got it in the bag.
00:31:37.000 Don't need to worry about it.
00:31:39.000 Now they have to say, okay, we have to go to Dearborn, Michigan.
00:31:43.000 We got to go hand out favors.
00:31:44.000 We have to go work this state. 0.98
00:31:45.000 We have to hire up activists.
00:31:46.000 We have to put out grassroots, go put out billboards.
00:31:50.000 It's what happened last evening is a message to all the Democrats, and they're saying, oh boy, here we go.
00:31:57.000 The Arab Muslims aren't doing what we tell them to do, and they're defecting. 1.00
00:32:04.000 And wouldn't it just be one of the great ironies of modernity that the people that the Democrats have imported into this country that they thought that were going to bring them electoral victories are the ones that decide not to vote in big numbers.
00:32:22.000 That could displace them from power.
00:32:25.000 Again, it hasn't happened yet.
00:32:26.000 I'm just saying, theoretically, that could end up being one of the great, that could be one of the great ironies in the history of modern politics.
00:32:35.000 Not to mention, a lot of these Arab Muslims, they tend to be anti-abortion, anti-all this trans stuff. 1.00
00:32:41.000 So there's a lot more there than people realize.
00:32:44.000 I wouldn't go as far to say that they're part of our parents' party movement, but on social issues, I agree a lot more with Arab, Muslim, Palestinian people than I do with the LGBT alphabet mafia on social issues.
00:32:55.000 I'm far more in agreement.
00:32:57.000 Not that pornography should not be in schools. 0.85
00:33:02.000 The Dems thought that they could boss around the Muslim community in perpetuity.
00:33:10.000 Turns out maybe that's not the case.
00:33:12.000 And also, we learned in just the last couple of minutes that Mitch McConnell is stepping down as majority leader in November.
00:33:22.000 These are great developments, everybody.
00:33:24.000 We have an expanded map and a chance to have a fighting Senate.
00:33:29.000 Keep the faith.
00:33:30.000 The turtle is going back into his shell.
00:33:35.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:33:36.000 Email us as alwaysfreedom at charliekirk.com.
00:33:39.000 Thanks so much for listening and God bless.
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