The Charlie Kirk Show - November 08, 2023


Why Ronna Must Go


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Time for a change at the Republican National Committee (RNCAA) and why it s time for a new leader to replace Ronna Romney McDaniel with someone who s actually going to get things done. Former Vice President Charlie Kirk is running the White House.

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00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody, it's time for regime change at the RNC.
00:00:03.000 Who should run the RNC and why hasn't it happened?
00:00:06.000 And why do professional sports receive more accountability than the RNC?
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00:00:32.000 Buckle up, everybody.
00:00:33.000 Here we go.
00:00:34.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
00:00:36.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campuses.
00:00:38.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
00:00:41.000 Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.
00:00:44.000 I want to thank Charlie.
00:00:46.000 He's an incredible guy.
00:00:47.000 His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created.
00:00:54.000 Turning point USA. 0.65
00:00:55.000 We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:04.000 That's why we are here.
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00:01:16.000 Yesterday was Election Day in many parts of the country, and it did not go well.
00:01:21.000 Ohio, conservative state, voted to legalize weed.
00:01:26.000 Ohio overwhelmingly voted to enshrine abortion in the Constitution.
00:01:32.000 Virginia flipped the state house in a blow to Glenn Young.
00:01:36.000 Kentucky re-elected a Democrat governor.
00:01:40.000 And that's just a taste, a sampling of what was a very, very disappointing night.
00:01:45.000 Now, the media and lots of conservatives are saying, well, this is 100% because of the abortion issue.
00:01:51.000 It plays a role, no doubt.
00:01:52.000 We got to figure this out.
00:01:54.000 I'm as pro-life as it gets.
00:01:55.000 I do not back away from the topic or the issue.
00:01:57.000 It plays a role.
00:01:58.000 But first, before we even get into that, because that's just a shallow take, that these are people that have always wanted us to retreat from the life issue.
00:02:07.000 And they don't actually want to talk about some of the most obvious reasons why we are losing. 0.95
00:02:13.000 It's because we have a loser running the RNC. 0.96
00:02:16.000 Now, I'll be very honest with you. 0.91
00:02:18.000 I was so disappointed by the lack of conservative grassroots energy when I went to Dana Point back in January.
00:02:26.000 Remember, we were right there.
00:02:27.000 I went to the RNC meeting.
00:02:29.000 We shook the hands and we lobbied and we failed.
00:02:32.000 We tried to get Harmeet Dillon as chair.
00:02:34.000 I was there at the RNC meeting.
00:02:37.000 And honestly, there wasn't a massive agreement in conservative media circles.
00:02:42.000 They said, oh, you know, yeah, Rana's got to go.
00:02:44.000 There were some people here or there.
00:02:46.000 They didn't realize the significance of what was going on at the RNC.
00:02:49.000 Your RNC state committeemen, your RNC state party chairs, they do not care like you care.
00:02:58.000 They don't care when we lose.
00:03:01.000 They say, you know what?
00:03:02.000 They were telling me when I was in Dana Point, oh, everything's fine.
00:03:04.000 It was a great midterm election.
00:03:05.000 Everything's just fine.
00:03:07.000 Rana's doing a great job. 0.99
00:03:08.000 And so you kept a loser and a failure in charge of the RNC.
00:03:15.000 And here we have Ignat lost in 18, lost in 20, lost in 2022. 0.74
00:03:20.000 You might say, but Charlie election was stolen.
00:03:21.000 Okay, what has the RNC done to secure our elections then?
00:03:24.000 What have they done to actually push for legislative reform and changes? 0.58
00:03:28.000 You need winners.
00:03:30.000 So let me ask you this: why is it even remotely acceptable that a national football league team, an NFL team, has far less tolerance for losing than the RNC?
00:03:51.000 This last week, the Las Vegas Raiders fired their whole staff.
00:03:58.000 Everybody.
00:03:59.000 It cost them $85 million.
00:04:02.000 But the owners of the Las Vegas Raiders, formerly the Oakland Raiders, said, we don't put up with losing around here.
00:04:07.000 We're spending too much money.
00:04:09.000 We're not going to put up with it.
00:04:10.000 Boom.
00:04:11.000 The defensive coordinator for the USC college football team under Lincoln Riley, boom, fired him mid-season.
00:04:19.000 Three losses in a row.
00:04:20.000 We are not going to put up with that at USC.
00:04:23.000 We're not going to put up with that at the Las Vegas Raiders.
00:04:25.000 Why is it that in our conservative movement politics, we put up with losing time and time and time again?
00:04:32.000 American sports has real accountability because they care about winning.
00:04:37.000 We do not.
00:04:38.000 We don't.
00:04:39.000 We say, but Ron is such a nice person. 1.00
00:04:41.000 Yeah, but she's a loser. 0.96
00:04:42.000 Oh, but she's a nice person. 1.00
00:04:43.000 She's really sweet.
00:04:44.000 It's what I hear time and time again.
00:04:47.000 We are not going to win in 2024 if the current leadership of the RNC remains, period.
00:04:54.000 So where is the RNC right now?
00:04:57.000 Are they crunching numbers and data?
00:04:59.000 Are they doing press conferences of why they fell short in Virginia?
00:05:03.000 Were they rallying the different tribes of grassroots groups, getting Bannon and Turning Point Action and the NRA and Moms for Liberty?
00:05:11.000 Where are they?
00:05:12.000 Oh, your RNC that raises hundreds of millions of dollars.
00:05:19.000 Where are they?
00:05:20.000 They're in Miami, Florida, hosting a debate with NBC News.
00:05:27.000 Who in the RNC world thought it would be a good idea to host a debate the day after some rather consequential elections?
00:05:36.000 By the way, we got slaughtered in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court race.
00:05:41.000 We got slaughtered in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race earlier this year.
00:05:44.000 Who at the RNC said, you know what?
00:05:46.000 Let's have a debate that our frontrunner won't even show up with with NBC News the day after a rather consequential election.
00:05:55.000 It's not the most important election, but some of these were very important.
00:05:59.000 What did the RNC do to actually move the ball forward?
00:06:01.000 They were too busy hosting debates with NBC News, taking your money.
00:06:06.000 By the way, many of you donate money to the RNC.
00:06:08.000 You don't even realize it.
00:06:08.000 We get these emails.
00:06:09.000 Charlie, I don't donate to the RNC.
00:06:11.000 I'm like, you might actually.
00:06:13.000 You might have it on automatic withdrawal, automatic debit.
00:06:16.000 Sometimes they mislead you because they'll have a nice person sign the email.
00:06:19.000 Oh, I like that person.
00:06:20.000 You give $10, $20.
00:06:22.000 Very, very sneaky the whole way this thing operates.
00:06:25.000 By the way, this is what the RNC is doing.
00:06:26.000 They're going around to the second-tier candidates, some I like, like Vivek, asking them what their pre- and post-debate meals are.
00:06:34.000 This is your RNC.
00:06:35.000 Just a little taste.
00:06:37.000 While we are getting massacred in Virginia, we are getting slaughtered in Ohio.
00:06:43.000 Play cut 98.
00:06:45.000 What's your pre-debate meal?
00:06:46.000 Enchiladas.
00:06:48.000 Post-debate meal?
00:06:49.000 Enchiladas.
00:06:50.000 Usually has french fries in it.
00:06:53.000 If I had my choice, I'd have a McDonald's Big Mac and French fries, but I typically have salmon and some asparagus.
00:06:59.000 Pre-debate, you don't want to do anything to upset the apple cart.
00:07:02.000 And after the debate, are you ravenous?
00:07:04.000 Are you like digging into a burger?
00:07:05.000 Or what are you doing after the debate? 1.00
00:07:06.000 We'll let her rip. 1.00
00:07:07.000 What about post-debate meal? 0.99
00:07:09.000 Bubbles, champagne.
00:07:11.000 If I'm picking the restaurant after the debate, that's bad.
00:07:16.000 Like, I should have people who should be able to pick that and just put me in the car and tell me where to go.
00:07:22.000 That's your RNC.
00:07:23.000 It's all fun, guys.
00:07:25.000 They're in Miami living the high life.
00:07:27.000 Wine and dine, baby.
00:07:29.000 Lester Holt, Kristen Welker.
00:07:31.000 You understand?
00:07:31.000 This is the way it operates, though.
00:07:33.000 The RNC, who, by the way, circulated and publicized a hit piece against Charlie Kirk and Turning Point, they literally circulated via their RNC War Room email list a hit piece against us a couple weeks ago.
00:07:47.000 They're more worried about trying to attack me and Turning Point because they don't like the fact that we call them out on their BS. 0.97
00:07:53.000 Losers, they don't like that. 1.00
00:07:55.000 Attack. 0.99
00:07:56.000 They're more worried about attacking fellow Republicans and conservatives than winning a Kentucky governor's race.
00:08:00.000 They're more worried about attacking me than helping Glenn Young or whatever in the Virginia House of Delegates.
00:08:09.000 Has the RNC called Scott Pressler back yet?
00:08:12.000 Have they?
00:08:13.000 Nope.
00:08:14.000 By the way, it's not just me calling for Rana to resign.
00:08:17.000 She's number one trending on Twitter this morning.
00:08:20.000 And I have to do this.
00:08:21.000 I don't love doing it.
00:08:23.000 We told you so.
00:08:24.000 And you guys agreed.
00:08:25.000 You guys were great.
00:08:25.000 When I went to Dana Point, when I tried to do regime change with Tyler and Harmeet, there was a little remnant of us that tried to do it.
00:08:31.000 And boy, the RNC viciously came after us.
00:08:33.000 And one day I'll tell you all the stories.
00:08:35.000 I can't do it today.
00:08:36.000 What the RNC did to try to attack Turning Point and this program, literally this show, was morally reprehensible.
00:08:43.000 I can't tell you the full story right now.
00:08:45.000 They are so obsessed with us.
00:08:47.000 They don't care.
00:08:48.000 The RNC doesn't want to win.
00:08:50.000 Where does anyone get the idea the RNC wants to win? 0.57
00:08:53.000 They want power. 0.99
00:08:54.000 They want graft.
00:08:56.000 They want to stay in charge. 0.97
00:08:59.000 They want the power of being a loser, controlled opposition. 0.97
00:09:02.000 You understand? 0.75
00:09:04.000 They feel really good about themselves because they get to be around NBC News.
00:09:09.000 To them, that's a big deal.
00:09:11.000 Deep down, they've always wanted to be accepted by Lester Holt and meet the press.
00:09:16.000 And by the way, it also creates air cover so that the media doesn't write bad articles about them.
00:09:22.000 You see how this works?
00:09:23.000 So instead of doing a debate with Bongino and Walsh or Shapiro or Megan Kelly, could you imagine a debate if the RNC really wanted to do a debate?
00:09:32.000 Whatever.
00:09:33.000 Okay, if you had Tucker Carlson, Megan Kelly, Bannon, and Bongino, hello, instead of Lester Holt and Kristen Welker, love Hugh Hewitt, glad he's involved.
00:09:42.000 I exempt him from this.
00:09:43.000 Hugh's always had my back.
00:09:45.000 So this has to change immediately.
00:09:47.000 And my advice publicly and privately is President Trump, you have to call for the resignation of Rana immediately, or else you're not going to win next November, and they're going to throw you in federal prison.
00:09:57.000 It's that simple.
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00:11:46.000 So I'm a Bears fan, grew up a Bears fan.
00:11:49.000 And the owners of the Bears are very careful of how they spend money.
00:11:53.000 They don't want to win as much as they live on the lifestyle of owning the Bears.
00:11:58.000 God bless them.
00:11:59.000 The McClaskey family, they've been around for quite a while.
00:12:02.000 The owner's 100 years old, literally, 100 years old, Virginia Hallis, McClaskey.
00:12:07.000 The Hallis's start, George Hallis started, the Chicago Bears.
00:12:10.000 But the Chicago Bears are very careful not to spend too much money.
00:12:12.000 The Bears set the record in modern NFL history for most cap space unused.
00:12:18.000 They just don't want to spend the money because the fans keep on showing up and they live the lifestyle.
00:12:22.000 They go to the owners' meetings.
00:12:22.000 They fly private.
00:12:24.000 They're perfectly fine.
00:12:26.000 Why would the Bears need to change?
00:12:28.000 By the way, they're one of the worst teams in the NFL.
00:12:30.000 They're still living on the glory of the 85 Bears, which was one of the best football teams ever assembled.
00:12:36.000 I mean, there's only so many times you can kind of do the Super Bowl shuffle.
00:12:42.000 That's still Pac Soldier Field.
00:12:44.000 But there isn't a sense of urgency from the ownership group of the Chicago Bears.
00:12:49.000 Why would there be?
00:12:50.000 It's no different than Rana and the RNC.
00:12:53.000 They are comfortable losing.
00:12:56.000 There's many different examples that can show this.
00:12:59.000 And Rana McRomney, who is Mitt Romney's niece, has been in charge of the RNC for many years.
00:13:06.000 And every time I do this, people say, but Charlie, she's just very sweet.
00:13:10.000 I'm not indicting her character.
00:13:13.000 She's always been very warm to me. 0.99
00:13:14.000 She doesn't like me anymore, obviously, but she's a loser. 0.91
00:13:18.000 Are we really going to keep on putting up with nice people that lose? 0.73
00:13:23.000 What did the RNC do, if anything, to unite the grassroots groups and get the vote out?
00:13:30.000 And how many times do we need to get the memo?
00:13:34.000 It would be one thing.
00:13:35.000 It'd be one thing if Rana came out in August and said the debates are done.
00:13:39.000 Honestly, this is a waste of time.
00:13:41.000 We'll do some internet forums on X. We're not going to do this stuff where we spend millions of dollars on debates.
00:13:47.000 I'm going all in on grassroots stuff.
00:13:48.000 It's going to be a tough November 23, but we're going to ramp up.
00:13:52.000 I would have some compassion for that.
00:13:54.000 The RNC is one piece of many, but it's a central hub.
00:13:58.000 It's a central organizing principle because you literally carry the banner of the party.
00:14:03.000 You have 163 voting members of every territory of every state.
00:14:08.000 You are the central organizing principle of the Republican Party.
00:14:12.000 Instead, as a like throbbing middle finger to you, they are right now, as I do this broadcast.
00:14:21.000 Are they doing some sort of autopsy diagnosis, you know, diagnostic?
00:14:24.000 Are they doing a press conference?
00:14:27.000 They're doing a debate with NBC News tonight without the frontrunner.
00:14:33.000 Totally unnecessary.
00:14:34.000 Unnecessary.
00:14:35.000 It's an insult.
00:14:36.000 Why not do one? 1.00
00:14:37.000 If you're going to do a debate, bring in Bannon, bring in Walsh, bring in Candace Hongs. 1.00
00:14:42.000 No, they don't want to do any of that because they're not one of us.
00:14:45.000 It's insulting on so many different levels.
00:14:49.000 And do you know what infuriates me is I get the thousands and thousands of emails from you at freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:14:55.000 And you're prayerful.
00:14:57.000 You're obedient.
00:14:58.000 You work your tail off.
00:15:00.000 You pay your taxes.
00:15:01.000 You give $50 to this group and $20 to this group, praying it's going to make a difference.
00:15:06.000 And then you see the opulence of the RNC.
00:15:09.000 They're right now at four and five-star hotels in Miami, courting moderate donors for a debate that should not exist, that should have been canceled.
00:15:18.000 And the frontrunner is up 60 points.
00:15:20.000 That's insulting.
00:15:22.000 The Democrats are loving this, by the way.
00:15:24.000 The Democrats are rolling over us on data, voter registration, grassroots activity.
00:15:29.000 This morning, you know what we were doing this morning at turning point action?
00:15:33.000 Because I don't want to just be a complainer.
00:15:34.000 I want to be a problem solver.
00:15:35.000 By the way, I do have a remedy of who should run the RNC.
00:15:37.000 I'll tell you that in a second.
00:15:38.000 But this morning, I had a phone call with Tyler, who's going to join us later, as if I need another project with a hole in the head.
00:15:44.000 I got a hole in the head.
00:15:45.000 We're opening up office in Wisconsin.
00:15:47.000 We're doing what we said we were going to do.
00:15:48.000 Do you know how many offices the RNA?
00:15:50.000 The RNC is your office, Wisconsin.
00:15:52.000 We have an office in Arizona.
00:15:53.000 We're going to open up one in Wisconsin for ballot chasing.
00:15:56.000 We're doing what we said we're going to do.
00:15:58.000 By the way, with a micron of the budget, RNC raises $700 million, $700 million.
00:16:04.000 Our political budget right now is between $10 to $15 million.
00:16:07.000 Praise God, we can raise that much.
00:16:09.000 Praise God, donors are stepping up and helping us.
00:16:11.000 But the RNC raises $6 to $700 million.
00:16:15.000 How many offices does the RNC have in Arizona?
00:16:19.000 Zero.
00:16:20.000 Wisconsin, zero.
00:16:21.000 Georgia, zero.
00:16:23.000 Simple question.
00:16:24.000 Why does the RNC have an office in Washington, D.C.?
00:16:27.000 Why don't they sell that building?
00:16:28.000 Is it some sort of bylaw thing?
00:16:30.000 They don't need an office in D.C. They're not a lobbying group.
00:16:33.000 They're not a public interest group.
00:16:34.000 They're not the Chamber of Commerce.
00:16:35.000 Shouldn't they actually allocate their precious money?
00:16:38.000 Because they're always like, well, we don't raise enough money.
00:16:40.000 Okay, you guys own a 50 or 60 million dollar building in Washington, D.C., sell the building and spend all that money in office operations, ballot chasing, voter edge, election integrity in Wisconsin, Georgia, and Arizona.
00:16:54.000 But they don't want to win.
00:16:56.000 They want the prestige.
00:16:57.000 They want the comfort.
00:16:58.000 They want the selfies with Lester Holt. 0.96
00:17:00.000 They want to take your money and go to Miami and say, look at us, we're hosting a debate with regime media, the very regime media that launched the Russia hoax and called Brett Kavanaugh a gang rapist.
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00:17:49.000 Okay, several points here.
00:17:50.000 Then I do want to touch on the abortion thing because there's some truth to that. 1.00
00:17:53.000 It's not the whole story.
00:17:54.000 And let me tell you, I'll get to that in a second.
00:17:55.000 So, first of all, who should run the RNC?
00:17:57.000 Donald Trump is the most powerful person in American politics, Republican or Democrat, especially the most, it's his Republican Party.
00:18:04.000 Okay, this is not a debate tonight.
00:18:07.000 This is airtime for NBC News so the RNC can do whatever they do.
00:18:11.000 It's insulting.
00:18:12.000 It's wrong.
00:18:13.000 People should have mass resignations over this.
00:18:15.000 Mass resignations.
00:18:18.000 Tucker Carlson is the second most important and powerful person in the conservative movement.
00:18:23.000 And just to add on to that, tonight is going to be this bashed Trump rally brought to you by NBC News.
00:18:28.000 The RNC did not have to do this.
00:18:31.000 There's nothing in their bylaws that they have to do it.
00:18:33.000 They voluntarily courted NBC News, voluntarily.
00:18:37.000 By the way, we, despite all of our differences and our acrimony, via an intermediary, we presented many different options for the RNC to have an actual grassroots debate.
00:18:49.000 We even said we would spend money.
00:18:50.000 We'd have Matt Walsh, Steve Bannon, Dan Bongino, you know, the actual people that the movement cares about.
00:18:55.000 They want nothing to do with it.
00:18:57.000 Nothing.
00:18:58.000 Okay.
00:19:00.000 So Donald Trump immediately needs to call for the resignation of Rana immediately.
00:19:05.000 Now, the vote was back in January.
00:19:07.000 Unfortunately, there just wasn't as much enthusiasm for the removal of Rana as I wish there would have been.
00:19:14.000 There were a lot of people that were in Trump camp that were lobbying for Rana, that were saying Rana needs to stay.
00:19:19.000 That's what I came up against in Dana Point.
00:19:22.000 A lot of the RNC members said, but the Trump people are here saying that Rana needs to stay.
00:19:26.000 So in a lot of ways, Trump was neutral, if not helping Rana.
00:19:32.000 It's still a mystery as to what was behind there.
00:19:34.000 But he certainly wasn't behind Harmeet, which is too bad because Harmeet would have been doing a great job.
00:19:39.000 But now it's very clear that Rana can't raise the money.
00:19:42.000 The base doesn't want to give her money.
00:19:43.000 Even big donors don't want to give her money.
00:19:45.000 The fundraising totals of the RNC are abysmal.
00:19:48.000 Big donors who I talk to have zero faith in the pattern of losing that we've seen.
00:19:55.000 And it's not like it's first time.
00:19:57.000 It's 2018, it's 2020, it's 2022.
00:20:00.000 It's Wisconsin Supreme Court race.
00:20:02.000 It's the Kansas ballot referendum.
00:20:04.000 You need a different face to be able to excite donors.
00:20:08.000 Just that alone, a different face to be able to tell people, here's the plan, here's the vision.
00:20:14.000 Salon.com, which is a communist rag, but the numbers speak for themselves.
00:20:18.000 The GOP primary is wiping out the RNC's coffers.
00:20:22.000 The fundraising has gone in the toilet.
00:20:24.000 It doesn't have to be this way.
00:20:26.000 If you had a RNC chair, who I will recommend, I'm going to put forward a solution that spoke the language of the base, that was hardworking, that could communicate with donors, have a reasonable plan, do media that would excite people, but also make sure expectations are set of what the RNC can do and can't do, understands data, technology.
00:20:47.000 Without getting deep into the campaign finance rules, the RNC needs to be a data operation and needs to be a small dollar donor operation because they can legally coordinate with state party committees and campaigns.
00:21:01.000 I could bore you with all the FVC details behind that, super PACs, and 527s can't, but that's just the way it is.
00:21:07.000 The RNC has a role. 0.97
00:21:09.000 In fact, this is why I went to Dana Point to try and make regime change happen because I saw coming ahead, and I wasn't the only one, Tyler, Harmeet Dylan, John Rich, many people, we saw a storm brewing, like, huh, we're going to lose our civilization because we have a proven loser running the RNC with a cabal of losers. 0.90
00:21:32.000 And I'm not okay losing my country. 0.71
00:21:34.000 Let's go do something about it.
00:21:35.000 The RNC's fundraising has so significantly slumped, the party is left with less than $12 million at their disposal.
00:21:42.000 They had $80 million in the bank at the start of the 2022 midterm cycle, but that number has plummeted to 11 million, and not all of that is even accessible because it's in convention accounts and it's in these restricted money accounts.
00:21:55.000 The RNC does not have the cash to be able to compete.
00:22:00.000 So Donald Trump needs to say, Rana, we're done.
00:22:03.000 I'm going to be the nominee.
00:22:04.000 I'm not going to work with you.
00:22:05.000 We need total, complete regime change.
00:22:07.000 And by the way, do you think it's going to get better?
00:22:09.000 Let's just say the primary settles down and Donald Trump wins the primary in February, March.
00:22:14.000 You think all of a sudden donors are going to be like, you know, I have so much faith and enthusiasm.
00:22:17.000 The RNC should be actively pushing people to get out of the race, not hosting debates that keep the primary going on longer and longer and longer.
00:22:25.000 We need a reset. 0.69
00:22:26.000 Las Vegas Raiders fire their coach.
00:22:28.000 Lincoln Riley, by the way, probably one of the worst defenses in the history of FBS.
00:22:33.000 I kind of felt sorry for the guy.
00:22:35.000 I was watching the Washington USC game this last week, and I love college football.
00:22:39.000 It's one of my weaknesses.
00:22:40.000 And they kept showing this poor guy.
00:22:42.000 And Kirk Herbstreet is just relentless.
00:22:44.000 He's like, do they even teach him how to tackle?
00:22:47.000 I mean, I think they're giving up like 55 points a game, the USC defense was.
00:22:52.000 So they fired him this week.
00:22:54.000 So USC's alumni doesn't put up a losing.
00:22:58.000 Fight on, right?
00:22:59.000 They don't put up with it.
00:23:01.000 But we do.
00:23:02.000 And yeah, I don't need to remind you guys, the stakes of losing elections is far more important than losing college football games.
00:23:09.000 Minorly more important.
00:23:11.000 So what to do?
00:23:12.000 Donald Trump should say, Rana, we're done.
00:23:15.000 The recommendation is very simple.
00:23:16.000 You need someone smart.
00:23:18.000 You need someone tough.
00:23:19.000 You need someone agile.
00:23:20.000 You need someone that understands technology, someone that has run something big, someone that has presented himself as an interesting person, where I think a lot of people want to continue to learn more about Vivek Ramaswamy.
00:23:34.000 Vivek Ramaswamy would be an excellent RNC chair to come in with a mandate.
00:23:40.000 Vivek, you want to be president one day?
00:23:42.000 Right now, it's Trump's time.
00:23:44.000 Show us what you got.
00:23:46.000 Vivek could raise a ton of money.
00:23:48.000 He ran a successful biotech company.
00:23:50.000 He wants to win.
00:23:51.000 Also, if Vivek is able to get Donald Trump elected as president, what a way Vivek to launch your political career into mass seriousness.
00:24:01.000 He's run complex systems.
00:24:03.000 He doesn't have any sort of patience with BS.
00:24:05.000 He speaks the America first language.
00:24:07.000 The guy has an unbelievable work ethic.
00:24:10.000 He would be terrific.
00:24:11.000 That's who you want to run the RNC: someone that is gritty, someone that can raise the capital, speak to both donors and the grassroots.
00:24:18.000 He's incredibly charismatic, very authentic, has a great story.
00:24:23.000 And also, I think a lot of you are like, could it get any worse than Rana?
00:24:26.000 Vivek would raise the standard.
00:24:28.000 He would run it as if, like, we have a goal deadline.
00:24:34.000 We need to go.
00:24:35.000 We need to go after this right now.
00:24:37.000 By the way, I texted Vivek this morning.
00:24:38.000 I said, I'm recommending you to run RNC chair.
00:24:40.000 And he said, uh-huh, okay.
00:24:41.000 He's like, you know, he's like, I'm running for president.
00:24:43.000 You know, I said, I know.
00:24:44.000 And I love you running for president.
00:24:45.000 And he's doing a great job.
00:24:47.000 He's advancing a lot of great ideas.
00:24:49.000 But I think right now, Vivek running RNC chair.
00:24:51.000 And by the way, I'm open to any ideas.
00:24:52.000 You can email me, freedom, atcharliekirk.com.
00:24:55.000 Trump could get this done.
00:24:57.000 Trump could call right now, Rana, say, we're done, resign.
00:25:00.000 I'm not going to do any joint committees with you.
00:25:01.000 By the way, it's the Trump campaign that then has to come with these Trump victory funds.
00:25:06.000 It's very complicated the way the campaign finance stuff works.
00:25:08.000 But Trump holds the cards here.
00:25:10.000 Rana, resign.
00:25:11.000 This is a joke.
00:25:12.000 You're doing these debates.
00:25:13.000 Miami, NBC News.
00:25:16.000 By the way, if I was President Trump, just to be perfectly, you know how insulted I would be?
00:25:21.000 NBC News, which is relentlessly smearing you and your family, that pushed the Russia hoax, that pushed the all of the lies that we saw from Adam Schiff were peddled and subsidized by NBC.
00:25:38.000 And before we go any further, let's just not forget that MSNBC is an adjunct and a sister network to NBC.
00:25:45.000 So all that crap you see of mourning Nika and Rachel Maddow and Chris Hayes, they're technically a separate network, but they share a building in 30 Rockefeller Place in New York, and it's all the same sort of incestuous culture.
00:25:56.000 They share reporting. 0.93
00:25:58.000 It's all the same sort of thing.
00:26:00.000 And so we're supposed to sit here as the Republican Party in a time where our base is consuming information in ways so unique, different, and over the top.
00:26:11.000 There's this massive new podcast empire out there that's exciting, not just podcasts, live streaming, radio.
00:26:18.000 And we have to go hear our candidates go back and forth with Lester Holt.
00:26:24.000 Vivek Ramaswamy wouldn't put up with that if he was RNC chair.
00:26:26.000 It wouldn't happen.
00:26:29.000 We need creative new thinking. 0.70
00:26:30.000 We need fresh thinking.
00:26:31.000 By the way, this would light up the base.
00:26:33.000 You would see small dollar donations surge.
00:26:35.000 Vivek would sell the building in Washington, D.C., because I get asked that question all the time.
00:26:39.000 You know, donors say, but Charlie, you know, what would you do differently?
00:26:42.000 Very simple.
00:26:43.000 Sell the D.C. building.
00:26:44.000 You get tons of cash.
00:26:46.000 There is no reason why the RNC should have a building in Washington, D.C. Sell the building.
00:26:50.000 Number two, open up grassroots offices in Wisconsin, Arizona, Georgia.
00:26:55.000 Number three, make good with the base, aka get rid of Rana. 0.99
00:26:59.000 Have someone the base will listen to, that they will trust, and they will go to work.
00:27:03.000 You know how many people in our audience, you guys are saying, Charlie, why won't anyone put me to work?
00:27:07.000 Why won't anyone put me to work?
00:27:09.000 Because the RNC is too busy doing stuff with NBC News.
00:27:12.000 And we saw the results of this yesterday.
00:27:16.000 Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania.
00:27:20.000 So we need a total reset.
00:27:22.000 And I am trying to do my best to restrain the language here.
00:27:28.000 What was right in January is right today.
00:27:31.000 We are going to be demoralized and in this political abyss a year from today if the RNC stays in current management or hands.
00:27:40.000 It's just the way it is.
00:27:42.000 We need a seismic type shift.
00:27:43.000 And you know what?
00:27:45.000 Donald Trump has done these seismic shifts before.
00:27:48.000 I'll never forget.
00:27:50.000 Right after the convention, Donald Trump woke up one day and he said, Paul Manafort's no longer my campaign manager.
00:27:58.000 And everyone thought Donald Trump's campaign in 2016 was in free fall.
00:28:02.000 And who did he hire?
00:28:03.000 Steve Bannon and Kellyanne Conway.
00:28:05.000 And Bannon, to his credit, was the he doesn't get, Bannon does not get the credit for this, by the way.
00:28:11.000 And he doesn't even toot his own horn as well as he should, in my opinion.
00:28:14.000 Because Bannon was one of the only people, and he golfed with Trump and he said, You realize you can win the rust belt if you go after muscular class voters.
00:28:25.000 Bannon deserves such credit for this.
00:28:26.000 He was like the only voice to be like, go after it, populist blue collar.
00:28:31.000 And Trump was like, well, that's different than what all the other consultants are telling me.
00:28:35.000 And Trump's secret weapon in 2016 was that nobody thought he could win.
00:28:40.000 Trump's secret weapon in 2016 is many of the consultants stayed away from him and focused on other races because they thought it was a waste of time.
00:28:46.000 He just kind of got to get it through the system.
00:28:48.000 Like, what is this whole thing?
00:28:49.000 They looked at Trump as dysentery.
00:28:51.000 Get it out of the system. 0.99
00:28:52.000 It's really disgusting.
00:28:52.000 It's really gross.
00:28:54.000 And then the Billy Bush tape happened, and Trump was truly on his own.
00:28:57.000 And Bannon was like, next debate, invite the accusers of Bill Clinton and put them front row.
00:29:03.000 And Hillary Clinton all of a sudden barely even mentioned the Billy Bush tape.
00:29:06.000 That's the energy we need.
00:29:08.000 2016 energy, not RNC 2020 energy.
00:29:11.000 We're sitting in our hands and we lose comfortably.
00:29:14.000 We're headed for a bad result, everybody.
00:29:16.000 I'm telling you right now, we're headed for a bad result if management stays as it is.
00:29:24.000 So look, I could go through ad after ad after ad, but in Virginia, Republicans lost for a lot of reasons.
00:29:31.000 And it is partially the abortion question, but you can neutralize the abortion question if you had sophisticated political machinery.
00:29:40.000 I fully acknowledge in states like Virginia, in states such as that, there are more people that want to be able to have abortion than not.
00:29:50.000 But if we had sophisticated political machinery and we were able to at least punch back on these issues a little bit, we could neutralize it.
00:29:57.000 We'd still probably lose on the issue a little bit, but we just completely surrender and run to the hills.
00:30:03.000 Completely surrender and run to the hills.
00:30:06.000 And Republicans have got to figure out how they're going to message.
00:30:09.000 Again, if you had a strong RNC, why are they not putting together a messaging summit?
00:30:14.000 Well, Rana's too busy attacking me.
00:30:16.000 The RNC is too busy attacking Turning Point.
00:30:20.000 Why would the RNC, this is something the RNC should do, put together a summit of all the best, and they would show up, convene the top messaging experts on social media, bring in DC Drano, bring in Shapiro, bring in Candace Owens, bring in Cernovich, bring in Pesobic, bring in 10 or 12 people and figure it out.
00:30:43.000 Bring in producer Andrew.
00:30:45.000 Why is the RNC not doing this?
00:30:46.000 By the way, we do this at Turning Point, but we don't have the convocation power that the RNC does.
00:30:51.000 Use the brand.
00:30:52.000 And then, by the way, publicly tweet it.
00:30:54.000 Say, we're doing this thing and we're inviting big names and we hope you show up.
00:30:58.000 People, of course, would show up.
00:30:59.000 I would show up to that.
00:31:00.000 I would suck it up.
00:31:01.000 Not a fan of Rana. 0.98
00:31:02.000 If Rana would have invited me to a messaging summit, I would have showed up because I want to win more than I think Rana's a loser.
00:31:08.000 And by the way, I'd be like, okay, maybe she's doing something. 0.67
00:31:12.000 That's a good role.
00:31:12.000 So it's not just the messaging on the abortion thing, but we have to acknowledge that Ohio sends a message that the Democrats are going to be able to go all in on the abortion issue.
00:31:22.000 I've said it once, I'll say it again.
00:31:24.000 If November 2024 is solely a referendum on abortion, we are going to lose.
00:31:31.000 We will lose the 2024 election.
00:31:34.000 I say this as someone that is a pro-life enthusiast.
00:31:38.000 Do we have to waver on the issue?
00:31:40.000 No.
00:31:42.000 Federally, you might have to say, I am not going to sign an abortion ban.
00:31:48.000 Whatever you have to, the federal issue, you could just say, send it back to the states.
00:31:52.000 And understand, the significance of losing means that we get Roe versus Wade back, and that would be a disaster.
00:31:58.000 So we got to win.
00:31:59.000 We got to figure it out.
00:32:01.000 But if you had a strong party, you would also then be able.
00:32:04.000 So you see this ridiculous, you know, pagan Barbie commercial of Molech, right? 0.97
00:32:09.000 Of a bunch of degenerate 20-somethings that say, look what you made me do. 0.98
00:32:13.000 Like very weird, like revenge-filled bitterness.
00:32:17.000 It's like identity politics.
00:32:19.000 It's all pink.
00:32:20.000 It's very strange.
00:32:21.000 We also, if we had political machinery, we would be able to maximize turnout for pro-life Catholics and pro-life Christians if we had more money and more counter programming that goes back to the RNC.
00:32:34.000 And I'll say it once, I'll say it again.
00:32:36.000 I guarantee you, Taylor Swift gave permission for that advertisement. 0.84
00:32:40.000 Taylor Swift is going to come out in the presidential election and she's going to mobilize her fans.
00:32:46.000 I'll be nice. 1.00
00:32:48.000 And we're going to be like, oh, wow, where did all these young female voters come from? 1.00
00:32:53.000 We better have a plan for that. 1.00
00:32:54.000 Taylor Swift, I think she put up one voter registration link and she registered millions and millions. 1.00
00:33:00.000 And let's just be honest, all the Swifties want is Swift abortion. 1.00
00:33:04.000 That's what they want. 1.00
00:33:05.000 It's 100%.
00:33:06.000 I don't know why it's so controversial.
00:33:08.000 We act as if she's like Mother Mary or something.
00:33:12.000 Let me news flash.
00:33:14.000 She ain't Mother Mary. 0.72
00:33:15.000 And people say, but Charlie, why would you attack Taylor Swift? 0.94
00:33:18.000 She's so popular. 0.83
00:33:18.000 She's all these different things. 0.83
00:33:20.000 Trump said this.
00:33:21.000 Well, I think it's terrible in 2016.
00:33:23.000 If you go with Hillary is saying the ninth month, you could take a baby and rip the baby out of a womb of the mother just prior to the birth of a baby.
00:33:30.000 Now, you could say that's okay.
00:33:31.000 And Hillary can say that's okay, but it's not okay with me because based on what she's saying and based on where she's going, where she's been, you can take baby and rip the baby out of the womb in the ninth month and final day.
00:33:40.000 And that's not acceptable.
00:33:42.000 Okay.
00:33:42.000 So that's talking about late-term abortion.
00:33:44.000 That's one of the ways that you can play offense on the bad guys.
00:33:52.000 We got to figure it out.
00:33:53.000 But it starts with the leadership.
00:33:54.000 We don't have a leader.
00:33:56.000 We don't have an opposition party.
00:33:59.000 We have a lot of smart people.
00:34:01.000 We have a lot of patriots.
00:34:02.000 We have a lot of capable people.
00:34:06.000 And we have to have a total reset, clean the house.
00:34:09.000 And when our own party, when our own people, they're playing footsie with NBC News and celebrating it, fire them.
00:34:16.000 Start over.
00:34:19.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:34:21.000 Email us as alwaysfreedom at charliekirk.com.
00:34:24.000 Thanks so much for listening.
00:34:25.000 God bless.
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