00:00:31.000And praise God for the wisdom that helped us guide through that evening.
00:00:34.000Email 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.
00:01:07.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:02:42.000And yeah, it was a pretty big victory.
00:02:44.000We 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.
00:02:55.000So tell us about kind of the vibe on the ground because Peter Meyer had a ton of money, but you worked the district.
00:03:00.000You went to every single farm and orchard in western Michigan.
00:03:05.000And you were up against a lot, but you won a decisive victory.
00:03:08.000Walk us through the kind of vibe on the ground.
00:03:11.000And was Peter Meyer's impeachment vote a major concern for voters as they went to the polls?
00:03:17.000So 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.
00:03:26.000But, you know, face-to-face contact is worth gold in politics.
00:03:44.000Instead, he listened to his expensive, high-priced consultants and did really expensive TV ads, mailers, and radio ads, which cost a fortune.
00:03:53.000But 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.
00:04:00.000So that is one thing that doesn't cost money is going out to talk to people.
00:04:04.000And something else that doesn't cost money either is prayer.
00:04:06.000And we had a very organized prayer team to pray for our whole campaign.
00:04:09.000That made a huge difference here as well.
00:04:11.000And so those are the two things we had going for us, which are not expensive.
00:04:15.000So we ran a very efficient type campaign, something that President Trump, I think, would be proud of, the way he does business as well.
00:05:30.000We're up against one of the tightest races in the country.
00:05:34.000Democrats are going to be pouring so much money into this.
00:05:36.000So 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.
00:05:51.000John, 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.
00:05:58.000Do you think that going into the general election, that's going to kind of be statewide for the state of Michigan?
00:06:03.000Is that these grassroots conservatives are just going to turn out in record numbers in your race and for the governor's race?
00:06:08.000Kind of want to get your opinion on what you see in other areas across Michigan.
00:06:13.000Well, I really appreciate what Turning Point Action has done.
00:06:16.000It was wonderful to have you guys out there on so many different days, door knocking and things.
00:06:20.000And that definitely makes a difference.
00:06:21.000It's that in-person contact again that I mentioned.
00:06:24.000So really thankful for you guys for being able to do that.
00:06:27.000Yes, that will be a large part of what happens here, I think, going into our election in November.
00:06:32.000Statewide, 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.
00:06:39.000Heck, 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.
00:06:53.000So I figure we might go and warn people about that here again.
00:06:56.000So yeah, we're going to do what we've been doing.
00:07:00.000We might beef our staff up a little bit and we're going to be ready to pounce on the Democrat.
00:07:06.000I mean, the thing that we see here is in our party, we have, you know, fiscally conservative, fiscally liberal, socially liberal, socially conservative.
00:07:13.000But the Democrats are much more uniform and lockstep.
00:07:16.000So that means we can tie her to everything that Joe Biden's doing and everything that Democrat Party stands for much easier.
00:07:22.000So we're going to go ahead and do that.
00:07:24.000And 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.
00:07:31.000So yeah, we're going to be doing a grassroots strategy of getting out there and talking to people as much as possible.
00:08:34.000I 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.
00:08:43.000We'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.
00:08:50.000Austin, 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.
00:09:06.000And 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.
00:09:15.000So they're really going to lean more to the left.
00:09:18.000But 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.
00:09:28.000And 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.
00:09:35.000And Florida was the same exact way at one time, Charlie, until they had strong, actual conservative constitutional leadership.
00:09:41.000Ron 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.
00:09:47.000And I think most rhinos and establishment will eventually get that.
00:09:51.000Yeah, 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.
00:09:58.000We 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.
00:10:03.000But our experience shows us otherwise.
00:10:05.000Our experience actually shows that articulate, strong, grassroots conservatives, you need your base to show up.
00:10:10.000Then you just got to win over independents, not by compromising your values, but with clarity.
00:10:21.000Joining 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.
00:10:41.000Talk 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.
00:11:07.000And as you and I discussed, you know, this Senate race is probably the most important in the country.
00:11:11.000And so it's going to be an honor and a privilege to expose Mark Kelly's left-wing track record.
00:11:16.000And when I just tell the truth about him, they're lying about me already, of course.
00:11:20.000But 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.
00:12:29.000So 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?
00:12:36.000Talking about the indoctrination in schools that the left is trying to push on our kids.
00:12:40.000And so when you just stay laser-focused on a positive message, turns out people like that.
00:12:46.000I have to say, Blake, it was the most positive political, successful political campaign I have ever seen.
00:15:12.000I hope you come on the show regularly just to keep the base informed.
00:15:15.000But I just want everyone to understand this.
00:15:17.000And 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.
00:15:24.000And 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.
00:15:35.000President Trump's endorsement helped a lot, no doubt.
00:15:38.000But Blake, you ran a very admirable race and campaign.
00:15:46.000I 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.
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00:17:15.000We 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.
00:17:23.000And obviously, we might have her in a second, but I do want to play a piece of tape here from MSNBC.
00:17:29.000I have a soft spot for this MSNBC guy.
00:18:06.000It was sort of the overnight hours here on the East Coast, late night hours, early a.m. hours in Arizona.
00:18:13.000But basically, what happened here was Carrie Lake, the Trump-backed candidate, did extremely well.
00:18:20.000I'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.
00:18:29.000That is to say, the folks who went out to the polls yesterday voted in person.
00:18:34.000That is what was counted up overnight.
00:18:37.000Lake was absolutely trouncing Karen Taylor Robeson in that.
00:18:41.000And basically what that did is it vaulted Carrie Lake somewhere around, I think it was about 4 a.m. East Coast time.
00:18:48.000It vaulted Carrie Lake into the lead over Taylor Robeson.
00:18:52.000You see the margin now sits at over 10,000 votes.
00:18:55.000If 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.
00:19:06.000And it had put Taylor Robeson ahead of Lake by around 10 points.
00:19:10.000This is sort of the sequence in Arizona.
00:19:12.000It's a three-phase process for reporting out the vote.
00:19:16.000That 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.
00:19:27.000Steve 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.
00:19:43.000The question was, could she bank a big enough lead in that to withstand what was to come?
00:19:48.000Because this is a trend we saw in Arizona in 2020, and it's a trend we see in every other state, really.
00:19:54.000Same day, Election Day voters are very, very Trump-friendly.
00:19:59.000So 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.
00:20:11.000And in those overnight hours, Lake moved ahead of Taylor Robeson.
00:20:15.000In the Senate race, Blake Masters pulled ahead by double digits.
00:20:18.000The Trump candidates did great as that same day vote was counted.
00:20:23.000The third prong, the third phase of the vote count in Arizona is what we're going to find out about today.
00:20:28.000That is ballots that were dropped off at polling places yesterday.
00:21:39.000Tudor Dixon, by the way, ran a phenomenal campaign in Michigan.
00:21:42.000She'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.
00:21:54.000Well, of course, she was able to go out on a boat, or her husband was.
00:21:57.000People of Michigan, I don't think, are going to stand for that.
00:21:59.000I think this is a very winnable race in Michigan.
00:22:01.000It's going to be a tough race, obviously.
00:22:03.000Michigan kind of can be a purplish state, but I think it's very winnable in more ways than one.
00:22:08.000Let's have some questions here as we get Tudor all lined up in just a second here.
00:24:58.000If 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.
00:25:06.000We're going to offer you choice and education.
00:25:08.000We 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.
00:25:16.000We want to be able to make the decisions.
00:25:17.000So that same message that we've heard across the country that parents want to be involved, that is universal in the state of Michigan.
00:25:25.000Also, 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.
00:25:35.000It was so effective in cities like Detroit.
00:25:38.000That's something that we can do here in the state of Michigan.
00:25:40.000And 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.
00:25:49.000But that really impacts folks that want to start a new business, starting from scratch, trying to figure out how to do it.
00:25:55.000It's so hard in Michigan because there's so much red tape.
00:26:00.000We'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.
00:26:08.000So Gretchen Whitmer, she's a sneaky person.
00:26:56.000I mean, imagine this, the most radical environmentalist in the entire world comes out and says, you can't shut down this pipeline.
00:27:03.000And 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.
00:27:09.000She'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.
00:27:26.000Last 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.
00:27:37.000She vetoed funding for safe homes for pregnant women.
00:27:41.000Imagine being that anti-family that you don't want to provide safe homes for pregnant women.
00:27:45.000And she vetoed funding for pregnancy centers that teach about adoption.
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00:28:48.000A lot of people were getting discouraged last evening, understandably.
00:28:52.000And look, our system is very unique as a republic.
00:28:56.000I believe last night in Arizona was a shot heard around the world, thanks to the wisdom of our framers.
00:29:03.000Look, last night was a win for our Constitution and ultimately about how we, the people, are truly the sovereign.
00:29:13.000Look, 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.
00:29:26.000They say they get freedom from their government, which is ridiculous.
00:29:30.000We get freedom from a God or from a spiritual being.
00:29:34.000You get it from natural rights, we call it.
00:29:40.000It'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.
00:29:58.000It turns out, and I'm not blaming anybody, I understand it.
00:30:01.000It just turns out that America First did show up in major numbers.
00:30:06.000It turns out that MAGA did show up in major numbers.
00:30:09.000Randall emailed us, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:30:12.000I 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.
00:32:30.000That is the only county she has yet to take a lead in.
00:32:33.000However, 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.