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00:01:09.000Hello, welcome to a lovely Wednesday on the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:01:21.000We're really, we're in the final week before the Virginia and New Jersey elections, which people have wanted us to be rallying the troops for that.
00:01:30.000We're going to rally the troops for that.
00:01:31.000We'll be having Cliff Maloney on later on.
00:01:34.000And we'll also be having Dr. Larry Arne to talk about Charlie's views on education, which were very different, but very rewarding, very positive.
00:01:43.000And we also want to look ahead to our event tonight.
00:01:46.000We have probably the biggest event in our turning point tour this fall.
00:01:50.000It's going on tonight in Ole Miss in Oxford, Mississippi.
00:02:30.000But what we want to talk about is a chart that we saw yesterday that was really, really jarring and very revealing about the state of modern American politics.
00:02:41.000So to set this up, there's a commentator who's popular on the, not even the far left.
00:02:47.000He's kind of the center technocratic left sort of people, the Silicon Valley set.
00:02:52.000His name is Noah Smith, which is really funny because our own video guy is also named Noah Smith.
00:02:57.000Very different, very different Noah Smith that we have around here.
00:03:00.000So this Noah Smith guy, he has a very popular substack.
00:03:03.000I think he makes $300,000 a month in subscribers to that.
00:03:15.000I don't want to get into all of that, but he had a tweet that went viral the other day where he said the way Democrats should try to win elections is they should try to like America.
00:03:29.000Everyone talks about the Democrats' need to moderate on the issues, but what I don't see people talking about is Democrats' need to embrace America as a country.
00:03:40.000Not a piece of advice you want to be hearing from your own guys.
00:03:44.000But the problem is, this is actually a real problem.
00:03:47.000It's a genuine insight for him to observe this because if you look at the polls, it turns out Democrats don't like America that much anymore.
00:03:56.000And this is actually a pretty new thing.
00:03:59.000This came out in response to what Noah Smith wrote.
00:04:02.000Charles Lehman of the Manhattan Institute, he highlighted this survey question that Gallup has been doing for decades.
00:04:08.000For decades, Gallup has asked Americans as one of its regular questions in its surveys: how proud are you to be an American?
00:04:15.000And so that's just the question: How proud are you to be an American?
00:04:18.000And it's like extremely proud, very proud, not that proud, not proud at all.
00:04:22.000And in the early 2000s, there wasn't a big partisan gap on this metric.
00:04:26.000In 2001, 90% of Republicans said they were very or extremely proud to be American, and Democrats were 87%.
00:04:39.000Basically, the same level of feeling about America.
00:04:42.000But it started to drop a lot over the 2000s.
00:04:46.000By the time Obama got elected, Democrats had dipped down to like 80%.
00:04:50.000They were mad about the Iraq War, mad about Gitmo, and Republicans were still riding high in the 90s.
00:04:56.000But then what's crazy is after Obama gets elected, they don't, you know, we don't swap places.
00:05:01.000Republicans build this durable advantage you can see there in how proud they are to be an American.
00:05:06.000Maybe part of that is Michelle Obama openly saying she was only proud to be an American for the first time in her life when her husband got elected.
00:06:21.000Our cities are these just hives of racism.
00:06:24.000So it's okay to loot businesses, to burn things down, to rip down our statues, to abolish the founders.
00:06:29.000And we're still seeing this today: that why did the Biden administration essentially revolve around admitting as many illegal immigrants as possible?
00:06:38.000Well, it revolved around that because when you are not proud to be American, when you don't like America, you don't like the American people.
00:06:44.000And by default, you just like anyone who's not American more than Americans.
00:06:57.000Let them immediately go on every welfare program we have.
00:07:00.000Let them stay here even if they commit crimes because on this fundamental psychological level, they've embraced this attitude that America is illegitimate.
00:07:09.000That's what's going on with land acknowledgements.
00:07:12.000It's what's going on with the systemic historic racism attacks you're hearing on America as a country.
00:07:19.000And it's what we're seeing now with the, you know, call it the Mamdani message.
00:07:22.000And we talk about Mamdani a lot, not because he's going to be president one day, but because he so perfectly captures this vibe that has spread on the left.
00:07:32.000You know, what's the real problem of 9-11?
00:07:34.000The biggest problem of 9-11 is that it caused Americans, he says, to give mean looks to this immigrant, this foreigner who came into the country, who followed this, you know, alien way of life.
00:07:47.000And so another important thing here is Noah's giving this warning, but it's actually, it's, I don't think they're going to be able to put, they're not going to be able to close up Pandora's box.
00:07:58.000They can't put the genie back in the bottle on this one.
00:08:00.000And it's probably the biggest reason we have a strong shot in the Virginia elections that are happening next week, in the New Jersey elections that are happening this week.
00:08:27.000We have a good shot in those races, especially in the AG race, because they're running a guy for an attorney general who says, I believe it's okay to, you know, murder my political opponents.
00:08:37.000And that is directly connected to that dislike of America, that they don't really view Americans, their fellow Americans, as this legitimate group of people.
00:08:48.000There's a line I've seen online where it's, you know, when I say I don't like Libs or I hate Libs, it means I disagree with them, but I would still rescue them from a flood or a fire.
00:08:57.000And when they say, you know, kindness is everything, it means they want to kill my entire family.
00:09:02.000And that's what's going on with that guy in, I'm totally blanking on his name.
00:09:07.000The AG candidate who shall not be in Virginia.
00:09:12.000And I just don't think they're going to be able to fix this.
00:09:15.000And there's another clip that this made me think of.
00:09:18.000This is Zorhan Mamdani on his transit reform plan.
00:09:22.000This is why he's saying it's important that we get rid of fares on the New York City buses.
00:09:38.000It is important that we not have fares on the buses because then the violent criminals can just get on the bus for free and assault you, the citizen, who doesn't deserve to be safe on your bus.
00:09:50.000What matters is protecting the criminal.
00:09:52.000What matters is protecting the person who is harming society.
00:09:56.000This is something Charlie talks about all the time on this show, the celebration parallax.
00:10:00.000It's not happening, and it's also good that it's happening.
00:10:03.000We're seeing this element where the left is embracing more and more radical and overtly harmful ideologies.
00:10:10.000And I think the root of it is, look at the polls.
00:10:12.000They don't actually like America much anymore.
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00:11:20.000We're talking right now about the polls say that the left just doesn't like America a lot.
00:11:27.000And you were showing me another chart, Danny, that in addition to the partisan gap, there's also a very, and this isn't surprising, a very severe generation gap in how people view America.
00:13:18.000They're teaching this to people who want to be teachers that are going to be teaching our next generation.
00:13:22.000It's very bad for the country, but I also have to say, I'm a little optimistic in that in the long run, it is not good for a party to just so visibly despise it.
00:13:34.000People want to like the country they live in.
00:13:42.000Like Hispanics that Democrats assumed would just always be in their court are actually siding against them because they didn't love the endless flood of legals.
00:13:50.000They didn't love the idea of blowing up America.
00:14:03.000I believe he's been listening to what we've been talking about here.
00:14:06.000And Cliff, do you feel that that's giving us a shot that the left's so visible, their visible distaste for America as a country is giving us an opening to really defend our mandate in these coming races?
00:14:21.000Yeah, and Blake, listen, I've said this to you before on the show.
00:14:23.000You know, I've said it plenty of times.
00:14:25.000I always thought that on November 5th, the day, I should say November 6th of last year, the day after the election, I just assumed the pendulum would have to swing, that the left would realize that this radical woke agenda of siding with illegals over American citizens, of pushing men to be in girls' sports, girls' bathrooms, and girls' spaces.
00:14:45.000I just assumed that they would figure it out and that they would say, look, we've got to find a different path.
00:14:50.000But somehow, the radicals, the activists, the 10% of the radical donors, the 10% of the radical activists, they're driving this party.
00:15:20.000You know, we'll talk about some of the numbers here in New Jersey and PA and Virginia, but we're seeing it live in the field that people are moving towards the Republicans, especially independents, because of this opening from the radical Democrats doubling down.
00:15:36.000The B-roll we're showing there is showing people, of course, burning the American flag.
00:15:40.000And I remember that's one of the last debates we had on thought crime before we lost Charlie, and it was whether flag burning should be illegal or not.
00:15:50.000I believe one of the points I brought up, maybe it was Charlie, one of us, I think it came up though, that free speech issues aside, the grossness of burning the American flag aside, it kind of is really useful if your opponents are just able to, if they're able to just burn the flag, because it's so gross to look at that they do that.
00:16:09.000That when you, it's sort of allowing your opponent to hurt themselves when you allow them to just go out and just say, Yeah, I hate America.
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00:17:54.000Well, as we were saying, the clear derision for this country that the Democrat Party has is creating political openings for us.
00:18:02.000And we have Cliff Maloney with us here.
00:18:04.000He's in Pennsylvania, which is a state that borders New Jersey.
00:18:08.000Now, New Jersey's been a blue state my entire life, but it was surprisingly close this last election.
00:18:14.000It has a lot of sort of MAGA-inclined people.
00:18:18.000And, you know, it's elected Republican governors before.
00:18:20.000And we're hoping it's going to elect one again.
00:18:24.000Just to give you the latest rundown in the polls, we have Mickey Sherrill as the Democrat in the latest poll, and she was pulling up 49% to 46% for the Republican Jack Chitterelli.
00:18:36.000Now, that's a deficit, but it's closed up a lot in the last few weeks.
00:18:41.000We also have a very interesting poll that we've seen.
00:19:15.000You know, this is coming off an election where a Republican is in the White House, Republicans have control of Congress, both the House and the Senate.
00:19:22.000And so we're not supposed to win this, right?
00:19:35.000The other thing I want to point out is four years ago, when Jack was on the ballot against Murphy, he was down 10 points in the polls at a minimum.
00:19:43.000I mean, some of these had him down 15 points going into election day.
00:19:48.000So let's think about the numbers and how this is trending.
00:19:50.000Registration is looking much better in terms of it's still dominated by Democrats, but their margin is getting smaller and smaller every single month.
00:20:02.000Jack loses by three in 2021 with the pushback against a Democrat White House.
00:20:07.000And then Trump takes his double digit loss and gets it down to 5.9 in the same state just four years later.
00:20:15.000So to me, you know, what we're seeing on the ground is there's energy for Jack.
00:20:18.000And, you know, Mikey Cheryl is just the type of candidate that she's the Kamala Harris of New Jersey.
00:20:23.000The more time people spend with her, the more time people hear her or understand what ideas she's promoting, the fewer votes she's going to get.
00:20:45.000And I do think that this is the entire election.
00:20:48.000180,000 Republican voters, registered Republican voters, have requested a mail-in ballot in New Jersey.
00:20:56.000And out of them, only 104 have returned them.
00:21:00.000That means, and this is for the whole RAV and the whole Charlie Kirk show audience, there are 80,000 Republicans right now in the state of New Jersey that have a ballot sitting on their dining room table.
00:21:13.000We've got to get every single one of them back.
00:21:15.000That's what we're doing at the New Jersey Chase with our program, njchase.com.
00:21:20.000If folks want to come knock doors with us or sponsor a ballot chaser, $175 a day, this is the election.
00:22:11.000It is won by whoever has the most pieces of paper with the candidate they support in the ballot box.
00:22:18.000And on the date of the election, or who knows how many days it takes New Jersey to count them, when it is all counted up, we need Chitterelli to have more pieces of paper in the box than Ms. Cheryl.
00:23:39.000You'd be amazed the number of people who forget these sorts of things.
00:23:43.000We've learned that over and over again.
00:23:45.000And, you know, the best time to vote is right now because sometimes people wait till the last minute and then it doesn't happen.
00:23:54.000We've learned that over and over as well.
00:23:56.000And so, Cliff, I wanted to throw it a 234, if we could go over this real quick.
00:24:00.000It's basically the Dem firewall right now in New Jersey, and it's showing that in 2025, they're running about 30,000 ahead of where they were in 2021.
00:24:12.000Is that just because of higher turnout across the board?
00:24:15.000Should we be expecting Republicans to be about 30,000 ahead of where they were in 2021 as well?
00:24:34.000If you look at early vote, we only lost by about 10,000, or excuse me, 20,000.
00:24:38.000Okay, I'm talking raw votes, not percentages, right?
00:24:41.000Everybody wants to look at percentages, and sometimes that makes sense.
00:24:43.000For me, when I'm chasing ballots or when I'm talking about those 80,000 Republicans with a ballot, to me, it's the raw numbers.
00:24:50.000On election day, Chittorelli won by over 200,000.
00:24:53.000So that's what I'm looking at is how do we get that number to where we're below 200,000 or even below 250,000 in terms of the deficit between early voting and mail-in ballots combined going into Election Day.
00:25:10.000So I'm going to say this, and I might sound pessimistic, and look, I'm a big believer in Jack.
00:25:15.000This is going to be a very tough race to win.
00:25:17.000Okay, for those out there that get excited when you have groups like Early Vote Action, groups like Citizens Alliance, Turning Point Action, America First Works, Heritage, all these groups that are coming into the state, which is great, you cannot think that just because we're targeting it is a guaranteed win.
00:26:47.000It is a race that we can move more in our favor if we are all committed, if we are emphatic.
00:26:52.000And more to the point, even if we're not going to win, it is our obligation to try.
00:26:57.000It is our moral obligation as Americans who care about this country, who like this country, as we were discussing at the start, to make our best shot on this one.
00:27:06.000We also want to look, do we have any numbers from the Virginia race?
00:27:09.000I want to shout out the Virginia race as well, because that's unfolding right now.
00:27:14.000That is also going to be a challenging one, but I think the polls show us up in that AG race, and state AGs are more important than ever.
00:27:22.000We've seen that with Letitia James in New York.
00:27:25.000We're seeing this with Ken Paxton in Texas.
00:27:28.000A powerful AG can make a big difference.
00:27:30.000So that whole rant I did for all of the New Jersey people who have your early ballots, that is also going out to all of you in Virginia.
00:27:55.000You can do it all the rest of this week.
00:27:56.000I think they cut it off on Saturday, maybe Sunday, but you don't have to worry when they cut it off because if you live in Virginia, you're going to go and you're going to vote right now.
00:28:05.000Again, turn off this show and go vote.
00:28:07.000Yeah, this is a fight worth fighting if you're out there.
00:28:31.000You know, obviously, the districts that we're in, it will help a ballot, but we're trying to flip the state house back.
00:28:36.000So Republicans have a one-seat deficit, if I'm not mistaken, in the House of Delegates.
00:28:41.000And so what we're doing is targeting a handful of the races where we think we can flip seats.
00:28:46.000But the momentum, you know, the energy is there.
00:28:48.000I think people look at Jersey as more of a likely win or however they're analyzing it.
00:28:53.000But I think both of them, there is a shot here, right?
00:28:55.000It's going to take a lot of the right things happening, a lot of the same variables, but there is a real chance if Republicans show up that we can win both Jersey and Virginia.
00:29:04.000You know, there's a pic they just sent me here in the chat, 248, that there are people putting up stickers that say, I voted to honor Charlie Kirk.
00:29:13.000And I think a lot of people are doing that right now.
00:31:21.000But also, I do think it's true that Sliwa has not shown a lot of polling strength.
00:31:26.000It's going to be very tough to win that race.
00:31:28.000You should all vote in it anyway because we do not abandon races.
00:31:31.000We do not give up on our fellow Americans or our cities.
00:31:34.000But that is going to be a very tough one, no matter what happens, I would say.
00:31:38.000I have a quick question I want to share with Cliff.
00:31:41.000Diane sent us a, I guess it's probably Diane, sent us a email that just says, is there a New Jersey phone bank people can go to where they can dial from anywhere?
00:31:52.000I think that's probably similar to the Turning Point Action app that we've had in some states.
00:31:56.000Do you have the best advice for people who want to get involved?
00:31:58.000I guess probably from out of state, Cliff?
00:32:01.000Yes, download the Early Vote Action app.
00:32:04.000So Scott Presser's crew has plenty of things that folks can do.
00:32:07.000This is not me saying that I don't want people to knock doors.
00:32:10.000But yeah, if you're not able to knock doors with NJ Chase, I would download the Early Vote Action app where you can make calls, send postcards and do some things here in the final six days.
00:32:51.000But in this upcoming election, what strategy will be used to engage young voters who feel disconnected from both parties and believe the system isn't working for them?
00:33:00.000And I do think I don't have an easy answer to that because it does stand out to me.
00:33:05.000We've talked about the shutdown a lot these past few days and I had that, this thought we were saying on the show that Democrats have touted the biggest victim.
00:33:14.000One of the biggest victims in this shutdown allegedly is that early retirees are paying more for, I think, their health insurance premiums under Obamacare, and it just it filled me with dread that that is apparently a politically powerful argument, because I don't.
00:33:29.000I don't want to say anything, you know, to those who are out there who support us, who are early retirees, who were, who were financially successful enough to do that good for you, but I'm just going to say it, it is not early retirees in America that our priority should be on.
00:33:44.000Our priority needs, above all, to be on young people who will have the next generation, who need to perpetuate American prosperity, American success, American vitality, and I do think, as Republicans, we've got to be really zeroed in on that message that we are the people who care about your future.
00:34:01.000We are the ones who will do things to enable you to own a home, to have a family, to live in a country that doesn't feel like it hates you all of the time, and we've gone to this again and again, the fact that Democrats so visibly want you to live in filth and in crime and surrounded by foreigners who don't speak like you, who don't like you, who view you as a giant pile of money to get.
00:34:22.000They're creating a lot of opportunities for us and we've, at times, been imperfect in capitalizing on that, and you know.
00:34:28.000That's why you know Zo Ron Mamdani has had the success he's had.
00:35:32.000The country needs you to step up and get involved with Turning Point and to take real action.
00:35:38.000Look, how do I think we reach young people?
00:35:40.000I think this election in 2024 really proved one thing, and that is that authenticity is what matters.
00:35:48.000And I think as Republicans, I'm going to be brutally honest, the rhinos, the establishment, some of these people that have been in this game for way too long, they're losing young people and all voters because people can sense they're not authentic.
00:36:03.000Donald Trump and JD Vance, when you compared that to Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, it was the greatest difference in authenticity.
00:36:12.000You might not like Trump, you might not like JD, but when they're talking, you know they're saying what they believe.
00:36:17.000And when you compare that to the Democrat leaders, they're just not authentic.
00:36:21.000Now, my warning is Mamdani, because he is the one guy right now that when he talks, he sounds authentic.
00:36:28.000I don't know how much he believes what he's saying, but I think authenticity needs to be what we focus on.
00:36:34.000I'm going to continue to chase ballots and use whatever tactics at the door we need to to win.
00:36:39.000But one, get involved at Turning Point if you want to make a difference.
00:36:43.000And two, the Republicans have a mandate to be the most authentic party and really to deliver for the American people.
00:36:50.000They do that, they're going to have great success.