The Charlie Kirk Show - Winning Big with Blake Masters

00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody.

00:00:00.000 Today on the Charlie Kirk show, we have Blake Masters, the nominee for the U.S. Senate race in Arizona.

00:00:05.000 Tudor Dixon, the nominee for the governor's race in Michigan, and John Gibbs, who just defeated Peter Meyer.

00:00:12.000 We talk to all these victors who run amazing campaigns.

00:00:14.000 The Republican Party is changing, everybody, for the better.

00:00:20.000 Praise God.

00:00:20.000 We got a lot of work to do.

00:00:22.000 Email me your thoughts, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:00:24.000 I want to thank all of you that watched our live stream and all of your kind notes.

00:00:27.000 I read all of your emails.

00:00:28.000 Really touches me.

00:00:29.000 We put a lot of work into that.

00:00:30.000 And thank you.

00:00:31.000 And praise God for the wisdom that helped us guide through that evening.

00:00:34.000 Email me your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com and support the Charlie Kirk Show at CharlieKirk.com slash support and get involved with TurningPointUSA Today at tpusa.com.

00:00:44.000 Buckle up, everybody.

00:00:45.000 Here we go.

00:00:46.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

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00:01:31.000 With us is Austin Smith, Enterprise Director of Turning Point Action, who had a major victory last night.

00:01:36.000 Congratulations, Austin.

00:01:37.000 Thank you, Charlie.

00:01:37.000 How old are you?

00:01:38.000 27.

00:01:39.000 You're 27, and you're going to be a state rep, barring any unforeseen impediment.

00:01:43.000 It's a big deal.

00:01:45.000 Going into the legislature, rock-solid conservative.

00:01:48.000 And Austin, you're pledging to fix elections, secure the border, secure the border.

00:01:52.000 You're going to be an ally of Governor Lake.

00:01:54.000 Correct.

00:01:55.000 Big time.

00:01:57.000 And you ran a grassroots campaign.

00:01:59.000 We're all grassroots.

00:02:00.000 I mean, that's who we are.

00:02:00.000 That's who we are at Turning Point Action.

00:02:02.000 That's who we've always been at.

00:02:03.000 Turning Point USA.

00:02:04.000 We've always been these grassroots people.

00:02:05.000 I was watching your interview last night.

00:02:06.000 I turned to Jack.

00:02:07.000 I said, he could be governor of Arizona one day.

00:02:08.000 Watch it.

00:02:09.000 I know how to spot talent.

00:02:10.000 I'm good at it, but you got to put in the work.

00:02:12.000 So just, I want to take a pause here and pivot here.

00:02:14.000 Austin, you can help us guide through this.

00:02:16.000 We have a huge victory that happened in Michigan.

00:02:18.000 And we had this guy on the show.

00:02:20.000 He's amazing.

00:02:21.000 John Gibbs won last night and defeated Peter Meyer, who's a total snake, lied to both of us.

00:02:27.000 And we corrected that error by getting behind John Gibbs, who defeated the impeachment voter Peter Meyer.

00:02:34.000 And he joins us right now.

00:02:36.000 John, congratulations.

00:02:37.000 Big victory last night.

00:02:39.000 Thanks, Charlie.

00:02:39.000 Thanks for having me on last time and this time.

00:02:41.000 Appreciate it.

00:02:42.000 And yeah, it was a pretty big victory.

00:02:44.000 We knew we were always ahead, but to actually see it unfold before our eyes was pretty satisfying and really rewarding considering all the hard work we put in over the past many months.

00:02:53.000 So it was really a great evening.

00:02:55.000 So tell us about kind of the vibe on the ground because Peter Meyer had a ton of money, but you worked the district.

00:03:00.000 You went to every single farm and orchard in western Michigan.

00:03:05.000 And you were up against a lot, but you won a decisive victory.

00:03:08.000 Walk us through the kind of vibe on the ground.

00:03:11.000 And was Peter Meyer's impeachment vote a major concern for voters as they went to the polls?

00:03:17.000 So the vibe on the ground is that people love to see you in person, especially when they know you're running against Peter Meyer, who really backstabbed and betrayed them.

00:03:26.000 But, you know, face-to-face contact is worth gold in politics.

00:03:30.000 And we were out there.

00:03:31.000 As you said, we visited every single city and township in our new congressional district.

00:03:36.000 And it was wonderful.

00:03:37.000 People love to see your face.

00:03:38.000 They love to see you around.

00:03:39.000 It lets you know that you're accessible.

00:03:42.000 So that matters a lot.

00:03:43.000 Peter Meyer did not do that.

00:03:44.000 Instead, he listened to his expensive, high-priced consultants and did really expensive TV ads, mailers, and radio ads, which cost a fortune.

00:03:53.000 But that does not replace actually meeting with someone face-to-face, answering their questions, letting them size you up, take a look at you, see what you're all about.

00:04:00.000 So that is one thing that doesn't cost money is going out to talk to people.

00:04:04.000 And something else that doesn't cost money either is prayer.

00:04:06.000 And we had a very organized prayer team to pray for our whole campaign.

00:04:09.000 That made a huge difference here as well.

00:04:11.000 And so those are the two things we had going for us, which are not expensive.

00:04:15.000 So we ran a very efficient type campaign, something that President Trump, I think, would be proud of, the way he does business as well.

00:04:21.000 So yeah, and that's what did it.

00:04:24.000 So, John, now you're transitioning to the general.

00:04:26.000 Some people are saying, oh, you know, John can't win in a general.

00:04:29.000 What are you up against?

00:04:30.000 How can people help you?

00:04:31.000 Very consequential general election race.

00:04:33.000 Tell us about it.

00:04:35.000 They're saying this is quote unquote Biden plus nine, false.

00:04:38.000 Some people did vote for Biden in 2020, but it's not 2020.

00:04:41.000 It's 2022.

00:04:43.000 Gas prices are twice as high.

00:04:44.000 Inflation is five times as high.

00:04:46.000 Many of those independents that thought they give Biden a try will not do it again.

00:04:49.000 Kind of like sticking your hand over a hot stove.

00:04:51.000 You're not going to do that again.

00:04:52.000 So we're going to get a lot of them to come back to our side.

00:04:55.000 This district is about 50-50, maybe D plus one.

00:04:58.000 You add plus five to that in a year like this, where the disasters of Joe Biden and the Democrats are just so palpable.

00:05:03.000 People can feel it in their pocketbook in the schools where their kids are getting indoctrinated.

00:05:07.000 You're not going to see anything plus D in this year like this in a conservative area like West Michigan.

00:05:12.000 So I think it's going to be very good for us in November.

00:05:14.000 We're going to keep working hard raising money.

00:05:16.000 People can go to votejohibbs.com.

00:05:19.000 They can sign up for our prayer letter, which is the most important.

00:05:22.000 Where people can sign up to pray for us.

00:05:22.000 Love it.

00:05:24.000 They can donate money.

00:05:25.000 You can knock doors.

00:05:26.000 You can get t-shirts and whatnot.

00:05:28.000 So votejohngibbs.com.

00:05:30.000 We're up against one of the tightest races in the country.

00:05:34.000 Democrats are going to be pouring so much money into this. 0.66

00:05:36.000 So if people could give $15 or $20, whatever they might be able to give to help us go up against this Democrats in November, it would be greatly appreciated.

00:05:44.000 So votejohibbs.com.

00:05:46.000 I think it's going to be a very good summer and fall, and I think we're going to win big in November.

00:05:50.000 Austin, any thoughts?

00:05:51.000 John, you know, at Turning Point Action, you know, the last couple of weeks we really had people on the ground knocking doors for you trying to get out the vote.

00:05:58.000 Do you think that going into the general election, that's going to kind of be statewide for the state of Michigan?

00:06:03.000 Is that these grassroots conservatives are just going to turn out in record numbers in your race and for the governor's race?

00:06:08.000 Kind of want to get your opinion on what you see in other areas across Michigan.

00:06:13.000 Well, I really appreciate what Turning Point Action has done.

00:06:16.000 It was wonderful to have you guys out there on so many different days, door knocking and things.

00:06:20.000 And that definitely makes a difference.

00:06:21.000 It's that in-person contact again that I mentioned.

00:06:24.000 So really thankful for you guys for being able to do that.

00:06:27.000 Yes, that will be a large part of what happens here, I think, going into our election in November.

00:06:32.000 Statewide, you know, we have the governor candidates, Secretary of State and Attorney General, but also here in our district, we're going to continue to do what we've done.

00:06:39.000 Heck, we may even go visit every city and township again, just to make sure they warn them of the dangers of having a Democrat in there who's going to tax them to death and destroy their business and keep gas prices going higher and try to make them buy a $50,000 electric car.

00:06:53.000 So I figure we might go and warn people about that here again.

00:06:56.000 So yeah, we're going to do what we've been doing.

00:07:00.000 We might beef our staff up a little bit and we're going to be ready to pounce on the Democrat.

00:07:06.000 I mean, the thing that we see here is in our party, we have, you know, fiscally conservative, fiscally liberal, socially liberal, socially conservative.

00:07:13.000 But the Democrats are much more uniform and lockstep.

00:07:16.000 So that means we can tie her to everything that Joe Biden's doing and everything that Democrat Party stands for much easier.

00:07:22.000 So we're going to go ahead and do that.

00:07:24.000 And I think that in a year like this, where you can just so clearly see how wrong everything Biden's doing is, we're going to have a lot of good results there.

00:07:31.000 So yeah, we're going to be doing a grassroots strategy of getting out there and talking to people as much as possible.

00:07:36.000 John, we're behind you.

00:07:37.000 I think you'll make a phenomenal congressman.

00:07:38.000 You got a tough race on your hands.

00:07:40.000 I think it's going to be a wave election year in Western Michigan in particular.

00:07:43.000 I think you're going to do super well.

00:07:44.000 So, John, we love it.

00:07:46.000 Congratulations on the victory.

00:07:48.000 We're so glad Peter Meyer is defeated.

00:07:50.000 He lied to all of us.

00:07:51.000 And John, you stepped up and you listened to the call to serve, and that means a lot to us.

00:07:55.000 It's votejohngibbs.com.

00:07:56.000 Thanks so much, John.

00:07:57.000 Thanks, Charlie.

00:07:58.000 Really appreciate that.

00:07:59.000 Thank you.

00:08:00.000 Email us your thoughts, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:08:02.000 So, Austin, we saw major wins for MAGA all across the country.

00:08:06.000 Is it true that every Trump-endorsed candidate in Arizona won?

00:08:10.000 Yes, every Trump-endors candidate won.

00:08:12.000 From governor's race, Senate, Attorney General, Secretary of State.

00:08:15.000 There were several down ballot state legislative races.

00:08:17.000 One was in mine with my running mate, Janae Champ.

00:08:19.000 She sweeped David Farnsworth, ousted the corrupt Speaker of the House, Rusty Bowers. 1.00

00:08:24.000 And that's, I mean, how big of a deal is that?

00:08:26.000 It's a massive deal.

00:08:27.000 You rarely ever hear people in leadership losing one election to the other when it comes to these legislative races.

00:08:32.000 So MAGA came out.

00:08:34.000 I think Arizona's in a really cool position now where we have got to capitalize on this because you only get these chances once in a lifetime, once in a generation, to actually change the political dynamic in a state.

00:08:43.000 We're going to be joined by Blake Masters momentarily, who won a double-digit victory, might be even as much as 15 points when it's said and done.

00:08:49.000 Remarkable.

00:08:50.000 Austin, talk about how certain people in the Republican establishment in Arizona actually will prefer a Democrat that they can work with than a candidate like Blake Masters or like Kerry Lake or even more so, Mark Fincham.

00:09:04.000 Is that a reality here in Arizona?

00:09:06.000 And I don't want to cast too much judgment that it's all like that, but there are some entities within the Republican establishment who at their core are not conservative.

00:09:15.000 So they're really going to lean more to the left.

00:09:18.000 But I can say without a doubt, I think that because of Kerry's soon-to-be resting, resounding victory and Blake's when all these votes are finally counted, that door is shutting.

00:09:28.000 And you need to be on the right side of the team because when these people are in their positions of leadership and influence, I think that you're going to have a lot of people coming around.

00:09:35.000 And Florida was the same exact way at one time, Charlie, until they had strong, actual conservative constitutional leadership.

00:09:41.000 Ron DeSantis turned that state around, and everybody is a Ron DeSantis fan there now because that's what it's going to take to actually save our country.

00:09:47.000 And I think most rhinos and establishment will eventually get that. 0.75

00:09:51.000 Yeah, and it's just, there's going to be a slew of suppression polls that will be published soon that are going to try to decrease turnout and try to diminish turnout.

00:09:58.000 We have to be vigilant for that and understand that they're going to try to make it seem as if these candidates can't win.

00:10:03.000 But our experience shows us otherwise.

00:10:05.000 Our experience actually shows that articulate, strong, grassroots conservatives, you need your base to show up.

00:10:10.000 Then you just got to win over independents, not by compromising your values, but with clarity.

00:10:15.000 And do not betray your base.

00:10:17.000 And do not betray your base.

00:10:21.000 Joining us right now is Blake Masters, who is now officially the nominee for the United States Senate race in Arizona, which will be the most consequential race, period, bar none, in the entire cycle.

00:10:32.000 Blake, congratulations.

00:10:33.000 Welcome back to the program.

00:10:35.000 Charlie, thank you so much.

00:10:36.000 You called it yesterday.

00:10:38.000 Thank you.

00:10:38.000 We did.

00:10:39.000 We did call it.

00:10:40.000 So, Blake, how are you feeling?

00:10:41.000 Talk a little bit about what you just accomplished, the journey you were on, and let's talk a little bit about Mark Kelly and how people can help you.

00:10:47.000 Yeah, thank you.

00:10:48.000 Feeling great.

00:10:49.000 You know, we put in over a year of hard work.

00:10:52.000 I think I must have met tens of thousands of Arizona voters.

00:10:55.000 And man, it was an honor and I had the time of my life.

00:10:59.000 And the great news is, you know, we don't have to stop.

00:11:01.000 We just get to keep sprinting all the way through November 8th.

00:11:04.000 Now it's just me and Mark Kelly.

00:11:07.000 And as you and I discussed, you know, this Senate race is probably the most important in the country.

00:11:11.000 And so it's going to be an honor and a privilege to expose Mark Kelly's left-wing track record.

00:11:16.000 And when I just tell the truth about him, they're lying about me already, of course.

00:11:20.000 But when I just tell the truth about Mark Kelly and how he's just helped Biden accomplish all of this chaos and destruction, we're going to win this race.

00:11:28.000 I love it.

00:11:29.000 So, Blake, you ran a phenomenal race.

00:11:30.000 Just so everyone understands, Blake has never served in office before.

00:11:34.000 He was significantly outspent by competitors.

00:11:37.000 Other people had statewide elected office.

00:11:39.000 And you ran a really honorable race, Blake, honestly.

00:11:42.000 You didn't get down in the gutter.

00:11:43.000 You responded fire with fire if they attacked you directly, but you really kind of took the high road.

00:11:48.000 Can you just talk a little bit about that?

00:11:50.000 You were smeared and slandered.

00:11:52.000 I endorsed you personally.

00:11:53.000 I've known you for a long time.

00:11:54.000 Turning point action did, but I was super motivated by some of the smears that came after you.

00:11:58.000 But you just kept on with the high road.

00:12:00.000 That was really interesting for me to see.

00:12:02.000 Just talk a little bit about that.

00:12:04.000 Yeah, thank you.

00:12:05.000 And, you know, I told my wife at the beginning of the race, I would not run negative attack ads.

00:12:09.000 I don't believe in it.

00:12:11.000 First of all, it's not my character.

00:12:12.000 It's not what I think is, you know, moral to do.

00:12:15.000 But second, it doesn't work.

00:12:16.000 People don't want that.

00:12:17.000 People are tired of that madness.

00:12:19.000 You know, things don't work right now in this country.

00:12:20.000 We're going in the wrong direction.

00:12:22.000 So why not use a candidacy, an opportunity to talk about policy?

00:12:27.000 And like, here's what's gone wrong.

00:12:28.000 Here's what we need to do.

00:12:29.000 So I stayed focused on the issues, talking about the wide open border, how we need to secure it, talking about the crazy Democrat inflation, right?

00:12:36.000 Talking about the indoctrination in schools that the left is trying to push on our kids.

00:12:40.000 And so when you just stay laser-focused on a positive message, turns out people like that.

00:12:46.000 I have to say, Blake, it was the most positive political, successful political campaign I have ever seen.

00:12:51.000 And I live here in Arizona.

00:12:53.000 And even on the stump, you're like, look, my opponent believes this.

00:12:56.000 And you just kind of moved on.

00:12:57.000 And your other, your opponents were just going after you mercilessly.

00:13:00.000 It was the most deliberate, patient, impressive campaign I've ever seen.

00:13:06.000 I mean, you went from 0% name ID of just people that might have bought a book that you and Peter Thiel wrote to winning by double digits.

00:13:15.000 That's an amazing thing.

00:13:17.000 And that truly is zero to one, Blake, isn't it?

00:13:20.000 It is, but you ain't seen nothing yet.

00:13:22.000 I think we're going to shock a lot of people in November.

00:13:24.000 I think you're right.

00:13:26.000 And I just want everyone to understand, though, I don't like the negative campaigning either.

00:13:30.000 People say, oh, you can't win without negative.

00:13:32.000 Well, Blake Masters just did.

00:13:34.000 Blake Masters just won without spending a penny on negative campaigning.

00:13:38.000 He defended himself when necessary.

00:13:39.000 It wasn't like he allowed himself to, you know, to get lied about.

00:13:42.000 But I think there is something about this younger, energetic, and optimistic message.

00:13:47.000 Okay, BlakeMasters.com is how everyone donates and everyone should.

00:13:51.000 We've did this before, but you got to refill the coffers, right, Blake?

00:13:54.000 We are running low on time.

00:13:56.000 Tell us about it.

00:13:57.000 We need to get our grassroots Charlie Kirk show army behind you.

00:14:00.000 $5, $10, $15.

00:14:02.000 Blake, tell us about the need in front of you.

00:14:04.000 Yes, please.

00:14:05.000 It all adds up.

00:14:06.000 It's all important.

00:14:06.000 You know, Mark Kelly, he's a fundraising machine.

00:14:09.000 The Democrats just funnel this stuff to him.

00:14:11.000 He's got like $30 million.

00:14:13.000 And it's a lot more than I have.

00:14:14.000 You know, we don't need to go toe-to-toe with him, but man, we need to raise money.

00:14:18.000 So you can spare five bucks, $10, $20.

00:14:21.000 Please go to blakemasters.com.

00:14:23.000 Help me win this Senate seat.

00:14:24.000 That's how we start taking back this country.

00:14:27.000 Just talk about a little bit of call to some of the people that might have voted for your opponents.

00:14:30.000 We want a big movement, right?

00:14:32.000 Establishment, moderates, Democrats.

00:14:34.000 It's time to all unite the party together.

00:14:36.000 Tell us about that.

00:14:37.000 Well, you said it.

00:14:38.000 And yeah, we had a spirited primary contest.

00:14:41.000 You know, there were a lot of attacks.

00:14:42.000 It got a little mean.

00:14:43.000 But, you know, what I will say is throughout it all, all of us candidates, we agreed on so many of the fundamental basic things, right?

00:14:50.000 We all agreed to secure the southern border.

00:14:52.000 We all agreed you got to stop this runaway inflation.

00:14:54.000 We all agreed, let's let police do their jobs, right?

00:14:58.000 And so my message is: hey, if you supported a different primary candidate, it's all good.

00:15:01.000 I get it.

00:15:02.000 But now it's time to unite.

00:15:04.000 And so let me welcome you to our team because together we can and will beat Mark Kelly.

00:15:09.000 Blake, congratulations.

00:15:10.000 You know, we're behind you 100%.

00:15:12.000 I hope you come on the show regularly just to keep the base informed.

00:15:15.000 But I just want everyone to understand this.

00:15:17.000 And I could write a whole, I actually might write an article on this, kind of remind me of the campaign the experts say couldn't win.

00:15:24.000 And it was a joyful, optimistic, forward-thinking campaign with you start with zero name ID, you get outspent almost five to one against your opposition, and you win by double digits.

00:15:35.000 President Trump's endorsement helped a lot, no doubt.

00:15:38.000 But Blake, you ran a very admirable race and campaign.

00:15:41.000 I just, you need to hear that.

00:15:43.000 And I think it's a blueprint for other candidates in the future.

00:15:45.000 And guess what, Blake?

00:15:46.000 I actually think you're going to benefit in the general from that, that you'll have more of a consolidation of Republican and Independent support because people know who you are.

00:15:52.000 Congratulations, Blake.

00:15:53.000 We'll have you on again soon.

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00:17:11.000 Okay, we're getting a lot of questions.

00:17:12.000 Freedom at CharlieKirk.com.

00:17:14.000 We're kind of doing this free form.

00:17:15.000 We might have Tudor Dixon on in a second, who is going up against the Wicked Witch of the West, otherwise known as Gretchen Whitmer, who is terrible. 1.00

00:17:23.000 And obviously, we might have her in a second, but I do want to play a piece of tape here from MSNBC.

00:17:29.000 I have a soft spot for this MSNBC guy.

00:17:31.000 He actually is pretty accurate. 0.91

00:17:32.000 He's a nerd.

00:17:33.000 He's obviously to the left. 0.82

00:17:34.000 His name is Steve Kornacki.

00:17:36.000 I actually think he does a pretty good job of explaining things.

00:17:39.000 And I actually don't think he's that partisan in the way he portrays stuff.

00:17:43.000 It's really important.

00:17:44.000 So this is him kind of going back to the Arizona primary.

00:17:47.000 And I think it actually adds some clarity to some of the confusion that you might have about the ballot dropping, drop boxing.

00:17:52.000 He actually got this right.

00:17:54.000 All the other Apparatches in the media should have just listened to Steve Kornaki as well as the Charlie Kirk show.

00:18:01.000 And I think they would have had a little bit more clarity about what was really happening in Arizona.

00:18:04.000 Play cut 41.

00:18:06.000 Yeah, it did.

00:18:06.000 It was sort of the overnight hours here on the East Coast, late night hours, early a.m. hours in Arizona.

00:18:13.000 But basically, what happened here was Carrie Lake, the Trump-backed candidate, did extremely well. 0.99

00:18:20.000 I'm talking like better than a two-to-one, in some cases, three to one margin in some of these counties in the same day vote, the election day vote.

00:18:29.000 That is to say, the folks who went out to the polls yesterday voted in person.

00:18:34.000 That is what was counted up overnight.

00:18:37.000 Lake was absolutely trouncing Karen Taylor Robeson in that. 1.00

00:18:41.000 And basically what that did is it vaulted Carrie Lake somewhere around, I think it was about 4 a.m. East Coast time.

00:18:48.000 It vaulted Carrie Lake into the lead over Taylor Robeson. 1.00

00:18:52.000 You see the margin now sits at over 10,000 votes.

00:18:55.000 If you were watching late last night, East Coast time, in the 11 p.m. midnight hour, we got a huge initial batch of votes, like 60% of all the vote in Arizona.

00:19:06.000 And it had put Taylor Robeson ahead of Lake by around 10 points.

00:19:10.000 This is sort of the sequence in Arizona.

00:19:12.000 It's a three-phase process for reporting out the vote.

00:19:16.000 That big giant batch that first came in last night, those were all the early votes that had arrived at election offices by yesterday, basically, excuse me, by Monday.

00:19:27.000 Steve Karnaki continues in cut 42, doing a pretty good job of explaining this of how all of a sudden this turned completely and totally upside down, answering a lot of the questions that you've emailed us, freedom at charliekirk.com, play cut 42.

00:19:43.000 The question was, could she bank a big enough lead in that to withstand what was to come?

00:19:48.000 Because this is a trend we saw in Arizona in 2020, and it's a trend we see in every other state, really.

00:19:54.000 Same day, Election Day voters are very, very Trump-friendly.

00:19:59.000 So the Trump-aligned candidate in this governor's race, and we saw this as well in the Senate race and those other races in Arizona, the Trump-aligned candidates. absolutely cleaned up in that same day election vote.

00:20:11.000 And in those overnight hours, Lake moved ahead of Taylor Robeson.

00:20:15.000 In the Senate race, Blake Masters pulled ahead by double digits.

00:20:18.000 The Trump candidates did great as that same day vote was counted.

00:20:23.000 The third prong, the third phase of the vote count in Arizona is what we're going to find out about today.

00:20:28.000 That is ballots that were dropped off at polling places yesterday.

00:20:33.000 They didn't vote in person.

00:20:34.000 They just dropped off completed ballots.

00:20:36.000 Those still have to get processed.

00:20:38.000 They have to get verified, signature verified, and all of that.

00:20:41.000 We find out today how many of those there are.

00:20:44.000 And then hopefully we start to get some results from that as well.

00:20:47.000 But again, the past trend when you look at that type of vote is that has been a much more Trump-friendly type of vote.

00:20:54.000 So Lake able to get the lead with the same day vote. 0.85

00:20:58.000 And I think potentially looking at votes to come here that are going to be more friendly to Lake than they are to Robeson.

00:21:05.000 So Lake sitting on that lead right now with absolutely now the potential to win this nomination.

00:21:13.000 It was actually a terrific summary by Steve Kornacki, the way he explained that.

00:21:17.000 And that's right.

00:21:18.000 Arizona goes in three separate tranches.

00:21:21.000 The first favors the establishment candidate.

00:21:23.000 The second mildly favors the more trumpy grassroots candidate.

00:21:27.000 The third tranche heavily favors the grassroots candidate because of Arizona law.

00:21:30.000 It has to be counted that way.

00:21:32.000 And Steve Kornacki might have been watching the Charlie Kirk show last night to actually figure that out.

00:21:37.000 Okay, we ready for Tudor Dixon?

00:21:39.000 Tudor Dixon, by the way, ran a phenomenal campaign in Michigan.

00:21:42.000 She's going up against one of my least favorite people on the planet, Gretchen Whitmer, who unnecessarily and mercilessly locked down the people of Michigan and just tortured them in their homes. 1.00

00:21:54.000 Well, of course, she was able to go out on a boat, or her husband was.

00:21:57.000 People of Michigan, I don't think, are going to stand for that.

00:21:59.000 I think this is a very winnable race in Michigan.

00:22:01.000 It's going to be a tough race, obviously.

00:22:03.000 Michigan kind of can be a purplish state, but I think it's very winnable in more ways than one.

00:22:08.000 Let's have some questions here as we get Tudor all lined up in just a second here.

00:22:11.000 Freedom at CharlieKirk.com.

00:22:14.000 Charlie Whitmer is the white witch based on C.S. Lewis's Narnia.

00:22:18.000 Please get it right.

00:22:19.000 Just teasing, keep up the good work.

00:22:20.000 Aslan is on the move.

00:22:22.000 Amen. 0.98

00:22:24.000 Charlie, you mean wretched Gretchen is the wicked witch? 1.00

00:22:29.000 Messaging suggestion for Republicans. 0.96

00:22:31.000 Hey, Charlie, thanks for all you do.

00:22:32.000 I have a couple suggestions for Republicans in their messaging for the midterms.

00:22:36.000 Basically, Republicans need to say this.

00:22:38.000 I think there's a better way to say that there were anomalies in the election.

00:22:42.000 Don't say rigged.

00:22:43.000 Say that they were shenanigans otherwise.

00:22:45.000 I'll unpack that in a second.

00:22:46.000 Okay, we got Tudor Dixon, who is now the Republican nominee for governor in the great state of Michigan.

00:22:50.000 Tudor, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.

00:22:52.000 Thank you for having me.

00:22:53.000 So, Tudor, congratulations on your victory.

00:22:56.000 Very convincing.

00:22:57.000 Tell us a little about your race, and then let's look forward as you go up against the Wicked Witch of the West. 0.75

00:23:02.000 Yeah, well, we ran in a race really strong, slow and steady, building momentum, and came out really strong at the end.

00:23:08.000 We're very excited about that.

00:23:10.000 But we've had great messaging.

00:23:11.000 We've been talking about what's bugging the people here in Michigan, which is education.

00:23:17.000 Our education system is in incredible decline.

00:23:20.000 We're 38th in the nation right now, but we're on the path to be in the bottom five states in the nation for education.

00:23:26.000 So we're going to bring that back.

00:23:27.000 We've had a stark rise in crime since Gretchen Whitmer came out and said she supports the spirit of defund the police.

00:23:35.000 We want to bring back safe communities in the state of Michigan.

00:23:39.000 And you saw what happened during the pandemic here in Michigan.

00:23:42.000 You saw how many businesses she closed.

00:23:44.000 We had restaurants closed for eight months.

00:23:47.000 We had schools closed for longer than any other state.

00:23:50.000 But that continues.

00:23:51.000 That's what you guys probably don't understand when you're outside of the state of Michigan.

00:23:55.000 She continues to go after our businesses. 0.95

00:23:58.000 She continues to shut them down, cite them, find them, over-regulate them. 0.99

00:24:02.000 The heavy hand of government is very strong here in the state of Michigan, and people want to be able to live their own lives once again.

00:24:09.000 And that's what we're offering.

00:24:11.000 So Michigan's a strange state in some ways.

00:24:13.000 I don't mean that politically.

00:24:15.000 Obviously, it's a phenomenal place.

00:24:16.000 It's just, you've got a lot of different type of demographics.

00:24:18.000 You got downtown Detroit, hard Democrat.

00:24:21.000 You got the suburbs, Auburn Hills, really where a lot of this is decided.

00:24:24.000 But Tudor, there is kind of an interesting unknown, right?

00:24:28.000 Which is Wayne County is this blue collar, you know, folks, right?

00:24:32.000 Talk about that.

00:24:33.000 What's your message going to be to traditional Democrats that vote for Democrats sometimes?

00:24:38.000 They vote for that dingle woman, right? 1.00

00:24:40.000 But they also love Trump.

00:24:41.000 That's kind of a dingle Trump part of the world.

00:24:45.000 Talk about that.

00:24:47.000 The message is that we're going to forge a family-friendly Michigan in this state.

00:24:51.000 And that's what people are looking for.

00:24:52.000 No matter who you are, you want a state that is going to benefit your family.

00:24:56.000 And that's education.

00:24:58.000 If you look at Detroit, we just had our literacy exams come back, and we had a 90% failure rate in Detroit, 50% across the board, across the state.

00:25:06.000 We're going to offer you choice and education.

00:25:08.000 We were just in Detroit over the weekend at a shooting event, and the moms there were telling me, we just want to be able to have the dollars follow our child.

00:25:16.000 We want to be able to make the decisions.

00:25:17.000 So that same message that we've heard across the country that parents want to be involved, that is universal in the state of Michigan.

00:25:24.000 So that's what we're offering.

00:25:25.000 Also, we're talking to them about entrepreneurship, how you can start your own business without all of the red tape, because that's something that we saw in the platinum plan that Donald Trump had.

00:25:35.000 It was so effective in cities like Detroit.

00:25:38.000 That's something that we can do here in the state of Michigan.

00:25:40.000 And that's really across the board, too, because we even hear the automotive industry telling us we're leaving the state of Michigan because it's just too darn hard to do business there.

00:25:49.000 But that really impacts folks that want to start a new business, starting from scratch, trying to figure out how to do it.

00:25:55.000 It's so hard in Michigan because there's so much red tape.

00:25:58.000 We're going to cut that red tape.

00:26:00.000 We're cutting regulations 40% over the next four years to make sure that people have the same opportunities in Michigan as they do in our neighboring states.

00:26:08.000 So Gretchen Whitmer, she's a sneaky person. 1.00

00:26:11.000 She's going to have a ton of money. 1.00

00:26:12.000 What do you think are other potential vulnerabilities for Gretchen Whitmer?

00:26:16.000 She's going to try to misrepresent you and smear you, but you're going to go on offense early. 0.98

00:26:21.000 I love your framing as creating a family-friendly Michigan.

00:26:23.000 But a minute remaining, what else do you think are some of the big vulnerabilities for Gretchen Whitmer?

00:26:29.000 Gretchen Whitmer has been saying she's been riding with Biden.

00:26:33.000 She tried to be the vice president of the United States. 1.00

00:26:35.000 She made herself a national figure during COVID because she wanted to be vice president. 0.98

00:26:41.000 She was on MSNBC every day talking about how great Joe Biden was.

00:26:46.000 She's still not pushing back on his policies.

00:26:49.000 She also has a really radical energy policy. 0.99

00:26:52.000 She's trying to shut down a pipeline in the state of Michigan. 0.98

00:26:55.000 We've already had Justin Trudeau.

00:26:56.000 I mean, imagine this, the most radical environmentalist in the entire world comes out and says, you can't shut down this pipeline.

00:27:03.000 And she takes it a step further and says, I'm going beyond the federal level and I'm going to shut it down at the state level.

00:27:09.000 She's got a more radical energy policy than Joe Biden and she doesn't push back on any of his policies that have hurt the country so deeply.

00:27:17.000 We have this baby formula crisis.

00:27:19.000 This originated in the state of Michigan and she says nothing about it.

00:27:23.000 This is a woman who is anti-family. 1.00

00:27:26.000 Last week, she vetoed bills that would have provided grant money for families who want to adopt in the state of Michigan, something we desperately need to make it more affordable to adopt babies in the state.

00:27:37.000 She vetoed funding for safe homes for pregnant women.

00:27:41.000 Imagine being that anti-family that you don't want to provide safe homes for pregnant women. 1.00

00:27:45.000 And she vetoed funding for pregnancy centers that teach about adoption.

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00:28:48.000 A lot of people were getting discouraged last evening, understandably.

00:28:52.000 And look, our system is very unique as a republic.

00:28:56.000 I believe last night in Arizona was a shot heard around the world, thanks to the wisdom of our framers.

00:29:03.000 Look, last night was a win for our Constitution and ultimately about how we, the people, are truly the sovereign.

00:29:13.000 Look, I'm pretty sure that almost every other quote-unquote free or Western country, Europe, Australia, not that I'm pretty sure I know for sure, they're top down. 0.66

00:29:26.000 They say they get freedom from their government, which is ridiculous.

00:29:30.000 We get freedom from a God or from a spiritual being.

00:29:34.000 You get it from natural rights, we call it.

00:29:40.000 It's so interesting because when the results were pouring in yesterday, there were a lot of people that were immediately going back to the muscle memory of, oh no, this is happening again in 2020.

00:29:54.000 It turns out that wasn't true.

00:29:58.000 It turns out, and I'm not blaming anybody, I understand it.

00:30:01.000 It just turns out that America First did show up in major numbers.

00:30:06.000 It turns out that MAGA did show up in major numbers.

00:30:09.000 Randall emailed us, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:30:12.000 I sincerely thank you for your encouragement last night as I sensed discouragement coming in around the different races here in Arizona and the Kansas abortion bill a fiasco, which I think is a fiasco.

00:30:22.000 You're right.

00:30:23.000 God woke me up three to four times during the night just to pray for Arizona and for our country.

00:30:28.000 You gave me hope when discouragement was trying to crush in on me.

00:30:31.000 Thank you and God bless you.

00:30:32.000 Randall.

00:30:34.000 Freedom at CharlieKirk.com.

00:30:36.000 They say the Charlie Kirk show is now my election therapist.

00:30:39.000 I will take that as a compliment.

00:30:41.000 Freedom at CharlieKirk.com.

00:30:46.000 And so as we reflect back on the last couple of hours and the last 24 hours, it's important to remove yourself from this simulation.

00:30:55.000 And I just want to say this is such a powerful point.

00:30:58.000 You guys showed up.

00:31:00.000 You guys did not allow yourself to be discouraged into cynicism or into inactivity.

00:31:05.000 You did not allow yourself to go into the posture of not voting.

00:31:11.000 Aaron said, email this freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:31:14.000 Just became a Charlie Kirk fan.

00:31:15.000 Subscribe everywhere you are.

00:31:16.000 Thank you.

00:31:17.000 Coming over last night from RAV, watching to the end.

00:31:19.000 Great coverage.

00:31:19.000 Thank you so much, Aaron.

00:31:20.000 We appreciate that.

00:31:23.000 And so, look, we got to keep the course.

00:31:25.000 We got to keep the pressure on.

00:31:27.000 We have to advance.

00:31:28.000 No retreat at all.

00:31:30.000 You understand what just happened?

00:31:33.000 Has one of the most there is panic at the establishment disco right now.

00:31:41.000 The establishment is panicking, house on fire.

00:31:45.000 They thought for a moment last night, we got it.

00:31:51.000 And they were wrong.

00:31:55.000 That this sends a clear signal that the Republican Party has totally and completely metamorphosized and changed into a people's party.

00:32:07.000 There is no retreat.

00:32:10.000 Period.

00:32:11.000 Linda said, Charlie, thank you for all you've done, especially our kids and continue to do.

00:32:15.000 Thank you for the election night coverage and for courage when Carrie was 10 points down.

00:32:20.000 Keep up the awesome job you're doing.

00:32:21.000 You are appreciated.

00:32:22.000 Thank you, Linda.

00:32:23.000 God bless you.

00:32:24.000 Troy is asking, Charlie, Maricopa County shows Carrie Lake is down 46 to 45 in Maricopa County.

00:32:30.000 That's correct.

00:32:30.000 That is the only county she has yet to take a lead in.

00:32:33.000 However, with the 125,000 ballots that tend to be, quote, more trumpy, I predict Carrie Lake will run a clean sweep of winning every single county in the state of Arizona. 1.00

00:32:46.000 That is my prediction.

00:32:49.000 Freedom at CharlieKirk.com.

00:32:51.000 We got another email here.

00:32:53.000 Charlie and Jack, thank you so much for your coverage last night over the elections.

00:32:56.000 Don't live in Arizona, so I don't know much about Carrie Lake.

00:32:58.000 With that being said, my question is, if you live in another state, is it illegal or legal to donate to her race?

00:33:03.000 If so, I'm totally doing it.

00:33:04.000 It is legal, as long as you're an American citizen.

00:33:06.000 That is a really good question, Taylor.

00:33:08.000 Thank you for listening.

00:33:09.000 As an out-of-stater, you can donate to Carrie Lake's campaign.

00:33:12.000 And so actually, I recommend you donate to fighters like Carrie Lake and Blake Masters.

00:33:19.000 Charlie, curious as to your opinion with the wait today, no further results until 7 p.m.

00:33:23.000 What do you think the chances of more fraud or Carrie leads evaporating, Matthew?

00:33:27.000 Lean on me.

00:33:28.000 I'm telling you right now, Carrie's lead will expand. 0.63

00:33:31.000 The ballots are there.

00:33:32.000 It's going to happen.

00:33:34.000 Thank you so much for listening, everybody.

00:33:36.000 Email me your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:33:38.000 Really appreciate it.

00:33:39.000 Thanks so much.

00:33:40.000 Get involved with Turning PointUSA Today at tpusa.com.

00:33:43.000 Thanks so much for listening.

00:33:44.000 God bless.

00:33:47.000 For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to CharlieKirk.com.

The Charlie Kirk Show - August 04, 2022

Winning Big with Blake Masters

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