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Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.
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You guys are on the front lines of the most important fight that is happening. And I can tell you right now, traveling the state, we were all over the place today. We were in Queen Creek in the Santan Flats. Anyone live out there? That is a drive. I'll tell you what. That was an hour there and an hour back. That was something else. But do you guys feel the momentum right now?
You guys start to feel that people are waking up and that after all the propaganda, that the lies are starting to subside and that truth is going to win and that we're going to take our country back?
The momentum is on our side, and I can tell you right now, here in Arizona, it's not that we have Election Day. It is Election Month, everybody. We have 19 days of voting before voting is ending. We need to beat the Democrats in early voting. Right now in Maricopa, we are beating the Democrats in early voting as of today.
But it's not enough just to start strong. We have to finish strong. You have to find your friends and get them out to vote early. For those of you guys at ASU, go vote and get 10 of your friends to go vote. Drop your ballots off securely at a ballot drop box. You see, the Democrats, they traditionally have dominated early voting. It's time for us to give them a taste of their own medicine and win an election month. And I have some really good news to share, everybody. Despite the hurricanes...
The flood and the terrible things that have happened in North Carolina today in Western North Carolina, despite there being almost no road access, no Internet, there were lines for hours wrapped around the voting center on the first day of voting in North Carolina.
In Georgia, where they had historic flooding in North Georgia, there were historic lines wrapped around the corner for early voting. Everybody, the momentum is here because we want to secure our border. We want to be able to afford groceries again. We want a government that we can trust. We want an end to the endless wars. We want a leader that will take a bullet for us and that will fight for you every single day.
But it's not going to happen just because you show up at an event like this. It's going to require work and grit and resolve. It's going to require all of us to get your friends, and this is your task, write down ten names on a piece of paper that you know of people that may or may not vote and own your circle.
Your kids, your nieces, your nephews, your neighbors, your grandkids, and you get them out to vote. First time voters will win this election. But you're all here tonight to, of course, hear also from a great American patriot, someone who is one of the most important voices and someone who might run for something in the future, don't you think?
He is an amazing patriot that is fighting hard. And I'll tell you, this guy is a workhorse. I said, Don, just so you know, I'm going to work you pretty hard today. He has done two Super Chase events, three grassroots events. He did a live stream with us. He did his own show. He's doing this. And then another event tonight, believe it or not, he is one of the hardest working patriots in the country. Join me in welcoming Donald Trump Jr. So, Don, welcome to Arizona. It feels like a week you've been here.
Yeah, I think I don't even know where I woke up this morning. I think I actually don't. I feel like Joe Biden right now. I don't even know where I am. And Don, I want you to speak to this. It feels as if the momentum is shifting our way. Not that we're guaranteed to win everybody. I want you to understand we have to be vigilant and paranoid and run through the finish line. But it feels as if the Kamala campaign is cratering and our movement is strengthening.
Well, you know, they tried the Joe Biden hide her in the basement strategy that wasn't working. So they put her out and that turned out to be a worse idea. But no, it is working. I see it every day. We were talking earlier on one of the live streams that we were doing and the amount of people that come up to me, not like this guy in the red MAGA hat, but, you know, at airports around the country.
You know, African-American men taking every one of them taking selfies with me. People are waking up. They're no longer tied to the Democrat Party. They see that they've been lied to. The Hispanic community has been incredible. I mean, especially in Florida, because so much of that, you know, were people that escaped Venezuela and Cuba. They understand what's coming here to America. You know what I'm talking about.
I had a little bit of that myself. I mean, my mom escaped communist Czechoslovakia and all the people who are pushing for socialism and communism here. It's always interesting that none of the people that advocate for these failed systems ever actually lived under those failed systems. It's only the academics and the Bernie Sanders is of the world. It doesn't work. It's been a total disaster. But, you know, the love I feel on the ground right now.
is insane. You mentioned North Carolina. I was in the area around Boone, I guess it's Pensacola Township, one of the hardest hit by the floods. And I went there and I was with the people from Samaritan's Purse because FEMA was missing. And we were flying in generators and heating systems on Black Hawk helicopters, like great Christian organization just doing the real work. And I was like, I don't even know if I want to be here. I want to see it with my own eyes because, and I can assure you it's worse than anything you saw on media and even social media.
But I was like, I don't want to take up time or space. And I got off that helicopter and people coming up to me just...
Thank you for being like it actually meant something to me that someone was listening and someone was there. And I just didn't want to waste the time. I felt like terrible about you. Someone lost their home and their loved ones. And and they're like, I didn't want to bring up voting. And they they brought it up to me like you have no idea. We'll run through other walls to be able to vote. And the numbers that we saw today in the first day of voting in North Carolina, the hardest hit counties are turning out record numbers of people because they know they know their government has failed them.
And let's speak to this. They also, Don, are repulsed by the current vice president and want to be next president coming in for just an hour saying, hey, I'll give you $750. Goodbye. They gave him a $750 loan, but they can send $175 million overnight to Lebanon. Last night, they approved in a mad rush, $450 million more to Ukraine. I mean, it's only half a billion dollars.
I'm with you. And this is, I'll do it again here, because I've done it probably in front of about 100,000 people now over two and a half years. You know, even the Republicans, because we've got to get rid of the weak Republicans, too. Ukraine's the number one issue for Republican voters around the country. I hear this from Mitch McConnell, who's spoken to like three actual Republican voters in his entire career, all 279 years of it. And...
So I do it. I speak to crowds like this 10, 15, 20 times a week. You know, or I open up for my father and there's 10,000, 15,000 people there. And I say, hey, guys, raise your hand if Ukraine's a top three issue for anyone in the room. Is it a top 10 issue for anyone in the room? So, so far, I've done it in front of 100,000 people. So far, I've had three people raise their hand. None of it was top three. Three people, top 10 issue for them. First guy asks, I'll ask him, right? Why is it a top 10 issue? Well, I'm from Kiev, Ukraine. I was like, you know.
I'm going to give that guy a pass. The other guy misunderstood the question, though he thought it was a double negative. So he also didn't care. And the other guy was a guy that worked at like Raytheon. So he was like, yeah, we got to sell missiles. This is how he makes his money. So, you know.
Other than those who are incredibly biased or profiteering off it, exactly zero real Americans think it's a top ten issue. And yet we have $250 billion for them. But if you're in North Carolina and you lost a loved one or you were – I mean, I was watching good Samaritans come in for Samaritan's Purse from all around the country, Texas and Michigan. They're in hazmat suits wearing –
Shoveling mud out of people's kitchens because water levels were above refrigerators in some of these people's homes. Ripping out sheetrock and insulation. It's going to be 32 degrees this weekend down there. We don't have enough to take care of Americans. We burned the coffers. FEMA, you know, Federal Emergency. That's the F-E in FEMA. Now, while they spend a billion dollars housing illegals, 13,000 of which who are...
But it's worse because 600,000 of them were are criminals. This is from Joe Biden's administration. So the numbers are probably far worse. But this is what they're telling us. 600,000 criminals from their countries, 13,000 murderers and 16,000 sex offenders and rapists. They know and they let them in anyway. There was a guy they covered yesterday from Peru who killed 23 people in his home country and they let him into the country. They know about it. They're writing about they have the stats. Imagine how much worse it is.
That's what's going on in America right now. And they'll give them $13,000 and they'll give them debit cards and they'll give them EBT cards. And if you go to a hospital, you pay insurance premiums and you pay deductibles and you have co-pays and you have to be in network. They can go to any hospital in the country, get full treatment, and you get the courtesy of paying for that. You're a second class citizen on your own country and it does not have to be that way.
And Don, I want to emphasize one part of this because there is this amazing wrinkle. Our government fails us and prioritizes foreigners. But look at this Christian organization, Samaritan's Purse, which is the best of America, which is neighbor helping neighbor. And I think it's really important because...
These are people that love the Lord and love their neighbors. And it's not the government that is stepping up in times of crisis. It is charities and people that want to serve something above. Can you speak to that, Don? Yeah, no. I saw...
this week and now to say over the last week because we had it you know I live in Florida and so we I live on the east coast so we didn't get that bad from the hurricane but I had a group of my redneck buddies we were ready with a caravan of like seven airboats we were going to go do rescue efforts on the west coast it didn't flood as it was going to or whatever it was still a lot of damage but not as bad but on our side of the state we got hit with hurricanes uh and everyone's mobilizing I went with Congressman Brian Massa the area's like a few minutes north of me and
just homes wiped out and he's like hey you want to go to hostile territory i was like well what does that mean sure but what does it mean he's like well we're gonna go to an naacp event i was like okay we got out of the cars at an naacp event hugs tears love community you know it again i was like wait a second
What you see on TV, the divisiveness, it doesn't exist. That's not America. Sure, it's .01%, but it's not the cause of and solution for all of life's problems as they had you believe. Everything's clickbait. It's all a lie. I'm like, wow, this is real America. I saw the same thing, again, as I mentioned, in North Carolina. People helping themselves. FEMA was missing. I'm speaking to the local sheriffs. I'm speaking to the local heads of the fire department. Where are those guys? We haven't seen them. This is two weeks after a flood.
They're taking up all the hotel rooms that could be hosting the people that have been displaced. I would take all of FEMA's budget, give it to Samaritan's Purse, let them run it. They'll do 100 times the benefit.
With none of the bureaucracy, none of the BS, and they'd get it done. They're doing that just from, you know, little old ladies who donate 20 bucks a month, which is all they can afford to donate, but they've accumulated and they put it out there and do it right. It's amazing. Again, I saw the absolute worst of Mother Nature in the last week and a half and the absolute best of America, of humanity, of our civilization, and that's why we fight.
That's incredibly profound. And that's a lesson for us all. When our government fails, the American people rise up.
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And let's emphasize another point here because the FEMA thing is so many different components of why we need to win in 19 days. They don't run the government well. They don't know how to run systems because these are not very bright people, and I mean that. But also, when they do run things, they prioritize the wrong stuff. As you said, Don, a billion dollars of what's supposed to be for tornadoes and earthquakes, tsunamis and floods, blizzards and natural disasters was used to put illegals in luxury hotels.
And a billion dollars of our taxpayer money that was allocated towards that
And it is a repetitive theme that Donald Trump will put an end to, which is, it seems as if, if you want a good deal, break into America. I kind of callously say this. If the people of North Carolina really want to get financial help, they should fly to Mexicali, break into America, declare asylum, and they'll get a free phone, a luxury hotel room, cash, and a flight to a city of their choosing.
That is perverse and it needs to stop. It does. I mean, what's good about it is the, you know, the wokeness that's running these agencies, because, again, they no longer even attempt to accomplish their stated mandate. It's just, you know, woke ism and, you know, liberal nonsense rather than actually catering to Americans. That used to be a reliable voting bloc. I'm watching them panic abound again. You know, black men. I can't. Well, how is it possible? It's like, well, maybe if you cared.
Maybe if you did something for them, but they're like, well, we can't do that. So we'll just import people who will be dependent on government and therefore reliable Democrat voters. I mean, it's so asinine. No civilization in history has ever survived where they put their own people last. And yet.
The only thing the Democrats seem to be good at is winning elections, and it's because they cheat and steal and do whatever it takes to actually win, which is why it's so critical. Everyone needs to get out there. Whatever you do, if you woke up on November 6th and Kamala Harris was president-elect, do it today. Do it for the next 19 days. Do it like you're the third monkey scrambling to get on the ark and it's starting to rain, folks.
That's what we have to do. That's how we have to fight. The momentum is there. Like I said, this is unfortunately, you know, this is my third time around now. I met Charlie in 2015 and, you know, we were both young babies then. You were a little bit younger baby than me. But, you know, you were on the road with me for six months and I just believed in everything that Turning Point's doing, what he's doing here and in Wisconsin and for the youth vote and our high school and college campuses.
If we had a thousand Charlie Kirks, we'd win elections 99.999 to .001, and the .001 would be someone who's just too stupid to fill in the right bubble. So I just want to commend you for all the work that you're doing here. It truly is incredible. We're saving our country. Thank you, Don. Thank you. Thank you, guys. A couple things I want to hit on, Don. The cost of living crisis.
And because it's happening in Phoenix here worse than almost any place in the country. And then I'll end with another topic I want to touch on. So let's start with cost of living. So just to give some numbers for you, Don, Phoenix always used to be one of the most affordable cities in America. You guys remember that?
In fact, when we first started to move Turning Point USA to Phoenix, Tyler, our COO at Turning Point Action, said, Charlie, it's amazing. You can get a single family home in the East Valley for $220,000. And you guys laughed, but that was just like five or six years ago, okay? That you got...
And by the way, 10 years ago, it was like $130,000, okay? And 20 years ago, it was like $50,000. I mean, this used to be one of the most affordable places for groceries, for cost of living. And what's happened is that as the blue states have failed, a lot of people are moving here. But more importantly, we have hyperinflation, which is driving the cost of living. And in Phoenix, we have by percentage...
the top five most increase of housing prices, top five biggest increase in utility prices, top five biggest increase in grocery prices. And you guys are feeling it, right? Every day.
Don, can you speak to the cost of living crisis that is crushing the middle class? Yeah, no, I had a conversation with a smart guy I know. He's like, you've got to stop referring to it as inflation because, you know, if you're doing and you're a political junkie, fine, you're thinking about it that way. But that's what it is. It's a cost of living crisis. I tell a story that sort of resonates because, you know, I'm not one of these, like, woke BS artists on CNBC that, you know, my two-week-old baby was crying the other day about nuclear proliferation on the Korean Peninsula. It's like, it didn't happen. We know that. But...
You know, I know who I am. I don't pretend to be something I'm not. Like, I'm very self-aware that way. I'm the son of a billionaire from Manhattan. I've been blessed. This last summer, last summer, I took two of my boys on a fishing trip, a father-son trip. We went fishing and we're coming back and we went to McDonald's. And I had a 10-year-old, a 14-year-old and me. And McDonald's for three people, two minors, was $48.
And I'm not going to lie to you guys. If Donald Trump Jr. has sticker shock at McDonald's, we have a problem. But the fact that I can see that and our politicians can't, despite the fact that I get it and I have sticker shock at McDonald's, but our politicians are still saying, hey, what's another couple trillion dollars for Ukraine? No end in sight. No one's told us what victory even looks like yet. They haven't articulated it. Is it a trillion dollars?
I mean, we just spent a trillion dollars for the first time just covering our debt. That's more than most countries GDP just covering the debt so we can fund, you know, transgender programs in Pakistan. You know, it's just going it's just getting stolen. But here's 25 million. Here's 100 million for some other program no one cares about with the woke agenda.
And we can't take care of ourselves. That doesn't just go away. That becomes debilitating. It only gets worse. The cost of living crisis, the inflation crisis, that means your costs go up and your standards of living go down. We all witness this. I mean, I live in Florida. It's a great state, really well run. But it's happening there too because people are escaping New York and then they bring their crap with them that they're running away from. We see it in New York City. The only people that are happy right now in New York City are actually the guys that own hotels.
And it's not because people are going to visit hotels. It's because FEMA and the government are putting up illegals in luxury hotels and they're getting more money, the hoteliers, than they would actual tourist dollars. Now, you're also getting crime. Cops are getting beat up in the streets. They're then released immediately because, you know, God forbid you actually hold a criminal accountable. How does this end? What's next? Where does it go?
But we have a unique opportunity in the next 19 days to put a stop to this crap. But we all have to do it. Don't believe the polling, okay? I feel like half the polling is designed to make us overconfident so we sit at home and the other half is designed to demoralize us so we sit at home. Just get out and vote. Then get out and bring your friends. Bank them.
The future of our country depends on it. They're not even pretending anymore. I mean, the people that scream about fascism and all this stuff that have called us every name in the book, they're the actual fascists. I mean, look at the playbook. They're censoring their political opposition. They're trying to jail them. They're crushing them financially. I mean, it's textbook. And yet.
It's not a fair fight. It should be. But they have a trillion dollars in big tech that's functioning as their propaganda arm. They have another trillion dollars from the mainstream media. You know, they're pretending Kamala Harris. No, she's going to be moderate. She's going to be very different than Joe Biden. She said like 10 days ago, I wouldn't do anything differently. I mean, you wouldn't have like maybe shut down the border earlier. You would have still let in 16,000 rapists and 13,000 murderers. You would have still...
from Afghanistan in that disastrous fashion and then get heavier, you know, the adults that are back in charge that they told us all about, you know, Secretary Blinken, brilliant guy. He gets on the stage. He's shocked. And I quote, shocked and dismayed that the Taliban did not install a more diverse and inclusive government in Afghanistan. I'm like, you're shocked. Like, if you want to be dismayed, fine. But like, you're shocked there wasn't like a trans coalition in the Taliban government. Like,
Like seven days ago, they were throwing homosexuals off buildings for being gay. Like you thought they were going to have a seat at the table like these people put women and children in sexual slavery. They won't let them read or get education. But you thought they were going to be like they're going to go woke. Like I honestly I wake up most mornings, Charlie. I feel like I'm like the star of the Truman Show. Like, sir, blink three times if I'm just being punked. Like I'm waiting for a TV camera to fall out of the ceiling because it's got to be a joke. And it's not. It's actually happening.
And, you know, I'd love to say that, you know, Donald Trump by himself can be the one guy to do that, but he can't. They've shown that they can cancel the president of the United States, the most powerful guy in the world. They'll shut him off. They'll censor him. They'll throw him off Twitter. Whatever it may be, thank God for Elon. But like, but but they did it then. But what they can't do is they can't censor and cancel all of you if we have the resolve.
If we have the strength to get up and fight together. If we show, you know, these days everyone's a badass on the internet, right? There's very few real badasses. There's one badass in this room. Where's Henry? Henry Ceduto, UFC champion, Olympic champion, true badass. That's a real fighter. But, you know, these days everyone thinks they're Henry on the internet, on a keyboard.
But the rest of us need to have the same strength and resolve that my father showed on July 13th when he got shot in the face and came back defiant, still ready to fight. If we all have that resolve, there's some kids in the room, so I won't use the real word, guts, but with a B. I won't use the real word because there's children in the room, CNN will say I'm a terrible influence, I won't do that, but...
If we all have that same strength and courage, and we can do it, and I understand there's consequences to it. It was great to see Bobby Kennedy's campaign manager up here warming up the crowd. I was with him on Monday. And now the Republican Party is the unity party. We have Bobby Kennedy. We got Tulsi Gabbard. We got Elon Musk. We got Donald Trump. You have former Democrats. Heck, you have Democrat royalty.
Leaving a party that they understand no longer represents what Bobby Kennedy Sr. or what JFK, what he stood for. They've abandoned that. Don't care about free speech, don't care about liberties, they only care about power. And so now we're the uniparty. Think about that. We traded Dick and Liz Cheney for RFK Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard. That's like...
That's the greatest trade in the history of trades. And that's what this party is about. But there are still people. They don't even know. They don't even know what happens. The media is not going to cover that, right? Like they don't cover it when Biden fails or when he clearly had dementia. No, no, he was the Joe Scarborough, right? This is the best Biden ever because now he has even more experience. I'm like, I don't know, man. It felt like he got lost on the stage that was like seven by seven the other day. Like, I don't know that that's the guy I want with the nuclear codes.
If Joe Biden, frankly, what's crazy is Kamala Harris is almost worse. But if Joe Biden pulled up to your house and you ordered him on like an Uber, you're not getting in the car, but you're going to give him the nuclear codes. What's going to happen at three o'clock in the morning when the S hits the fan? You want that guy answering? And what was amazing about the Ethel Kennedy funeral was that you had the lip reader from the New York Post yesterday saw the Barack Obama, Joe Biden conversation where Joe Biden saying, you know, I'm stronger than her. She's actually weaker. He goes, I know.
I mean, think about that. Imagine Joe Biden and Barack Obama agree that Kamala Harris is actually worse than Joe Biden. And yet, according to the media, she's there in a very elected fashion. I'm like, I don't know about democracy when you don't win a single vote in a primarily. You orchestrate a coup. You get put in a position of power again, sort of straight out of the fascist playbook. They're doing it every day.
So we can't take anything for granted. We can't bank anything. To win by one, we got to win by five. None of it's fair. It doesn't matter. They're in charge. They've set the rules. They control the swing state, state legislatures. That's how it works. I'd love to have same day voting with paper ballots, ID, all of the things that even the socialists in Europe are like, obviously makes sense. But they're the dealer.
We've got to play by those rules. We've just got to overwhelm it. We've got to win, and we've got to win at all costs.
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I have two things, Donna, I want to mention. The first of which is that we're both the father of daughters. And one of the morally clear issues that President Trump has been so good on, which, by the way, every Christian should just vote on this one issue, amongst others, no men in women's sports. Can we all agree on this? That alone, that every Christian in the country...
Should look at that and say, game over. But also anybody that just has reason and rationality. Don, you have, and it's well publicized, your daughter is very, very good at golf. She's very athletic. And just talk about where we're at in a country where this now has to be a presidential position. Kamala Harris, by the way, has done more to make sure that men will come into your daughter's locker rooms than any vice president in American history. Well, she also signed legislation to make sure that
criminals can get sex change operations in prison paid for by you, courtesy of the U.S. taxpayer. I mean, this is not a sane person, but, you know, I knew that was a winning issue years ago when it first started popping up before it was even sort of a conservative talking point. Not that it's a talking point. It's just common sense. But common sense is not so common anymore.
And I knew it was a loser for them because even back then, this is, again, seven, eight years ago, on Twitter I'd be like, this is absolute insanity. And even Twitter, when it was like 99% radical leftist, censored, controlled, they'd be like, oh, Don Jr., I hate you so much.
I hate you with a passion, but you're actually right about this. Even the radical leftists don't buy it. But that trans mafia is like, I don't know how like 0.0002% of the population somehow is infallible.
There's nothing they can do wrong. They control more power than anything there. I'd argue per capita. They're the most radical, violent portion of our society. They're shooting up schools. We can't read the manifesto because we don't know what the motivation was. I don't know. Would the motivation be being on drugs for like 17 years, screwing up your hormones? Because a three year old without parental consent was convinced by a rainbow haired teacher who has no intention of having kids. But we'll definitely try to indoctrinate yours.
It's real. So I have a daughter that's a great athlete. You know, you may have seen her speak at the RNC. And like, honestly, she'd never been all that political, you know, but she was with me like she knows my dad really well because of golf. They're always playing together. And so they're like buddies. Like I I catch my daughter and I think she's having like a half an hour conversation on the phone with like some high school friend because it sounds like it, you know, they're.
It's like funny, like teen, you know, pop culture stuff. I'm like, OK, get off the phone with your friend. It's like she's like, it's grandpa. I'm like, wait, what? And so when that happened with my father, when he got shot, she called me that Monday, two days later. And she's like, Dad, I'm speaking at the RNC. I'm like, oh, great. Well, I'll bump some governor. You know, I'm like, are you sure you want your first speech ever to be in front of like 40,000 people live, 100 million on TV? Like that's a lot. You know, that's a lot of pressure for a first speech ever.
And she goes, I don't care. So I called my dad. I'm like, hey, dad, the guy just called me and she wants to do this. He goes, whoa, that's a big one. And he thought about it for a second. He goes, you know what? That kid's a winner. Let her do it. She'll be fine. And and she did. But but, you know, I see her play with, you know, some of the guys. And she's she's been the captain of the girls team at one of the best golf schools in South Florida for since she was a freshman. She's a great athlete. But
If she played against the guys, they're hitting a ball 65, 70 yards further. Like, she's, I think, top 25 in the state. But it's not even the same league. And the fact that we're doing this, and it's never the other way, right? It's never a woman that goes into men's sports and is dominant. It's a journeyman that can't do it. They're taking scholarships. They're winning national championships. They're celebrating like it's a great feat. I was a D1 rower in college. You know, I'd have done great on the girls' team. I'd have been an Olympian. Like...
It's insane. But it's happening. What I want to know is like, where are the soccer moms? No, hey, I have five kids. I know how that happens now. I found a much less aggressive hobby like politics than raising five young children. That can be brutal. OK, so but, you know.
I'll say it. I'll get in trouble for saying it. But, like, I assure you, there's nothing worse than, like, a three-year-old triple header of T-ball. Like, I'm way too ADD for this stuff. But we do it as parents, right? We do it because we love our kids. We want them to succeed. We want to be there. And yet, there's silence. You do this for 15 years, and then you watch your kid's scholarship go, boop, it's gone. Because some guy that was 240 pounds decided, you know what, I'm not that good at swimming or I'm not that good at track against the boys. I'm going to compete against the girls and win races by 35 seconds.
It's insane and it needs to stop. We can do that. Again, we can stop all of this nonsense, but we cannot do it by ourselves. We need to be vocal. We need to become unafraid. We understand the environment that has been created. People are afraid to speak up or their entire existence is created around virtue signaling. You could be the cool mom if you virtue signal and, you know,
mimic all the ridiculous woke talking points. One day, your kids are going to wake up and they're going to look at you in disgrace if you keep doing that because they understand that they're the ones that are suffering from it. You don't need to be the cool person at Starbucks. No one cares. Do a good job raising your kids. Give them the opportunity to succeed. I read an article, I think, I don't know if it was US or UK, but they're like, you know, parents who read to their children at night, they should really
reflect on that because they're putting other children at a disadvantage because their parents may not be doing it. So, I mean, think about that. Mainstream publications, you should really work to put your children at a disadvantage. I mean, this is like, we're living like reverse Darwinism right now. It's lunacy.
So, you know, think about all these things. Make sure when you're talking to people, they understand just what it is. Again, the mainstream media is pretending that Kamala Harris's record started like a month ago during the coup. No, no, she's going to be a moderate now. I'm like, no, no, no. She's the daughter of a radical Marxist professor. She's a radical San Francisco liberal. She's the most liberal person in the history of the United States Senate. Far left of Bernie Sanders, because at least he seemed like he cared about American jobs a little bit.
You know, he hates capitalism. He has three houses. I mean, he doesn't appreciate irony or understand it, I guess, but she's a radical. Her not being a radical with that upbringing would be like me waking up one day being Donald Trump Jr. and being like, you know what? I'm going to be soft today. It's not going to happen, folks. The apple doesn't fall that far from the tree, but we're going to be gaslit. We're going to be told all of these things. And there are people. If you're in this room, you're into this stuff. You're junkies. You're into it. You're following it. You pay attention.
But there's plenty of people that are struggling to get by. It's hard. It's gotten a lot harder because of the cost of living, insanity of what's going on because of the policies of this Democrat Party. So there are people that, you know, they may listen to two, three minutes of news on the day in the background and it's CNN and they're brainwashed. They're indoctrinated. They're being gaslit.
Make sure everyone understands the truth. I mean, the mainstream media has shot themselves in the foot. It's allowed guys like Charlie and me, you know, to create platforms to be able to speak the truth. But, like, we got to do it more. We have 19 days left. That's not a lot of time. If we had years and decades, I think we'd win this battle. We're actually winning it. We're winning it with youth. You know, Gen Z is coming on board like nothing before because they want to be able to live their American dream. But...
But we have to win an election in 19 days. So we have to make those phone calls. We have to send those text messages. We have to check in on our friends and our neighbors and our loved ones, especially in the swing states, and make sure they got out there and did it. Apathy is the only thing that can cost us this election. Two thoughts here really quick. Guys, we have 19 election days from now to the election. How many of you have voted already? Raise your hand. Oh, those are rookie numbers, guys.
Tomorrow you go vote. Let me be very clear. You're going to go vote tomorrow. And then every day take ten of your friends. You might say, Charlie, I want to vote on election day. That's fine, unless there might not be a hurricane here. But what if there's a terrorist attack? Guys, do you remember they just arrested last week somebody who was planning a terrorist attack on election day that we brought in from Afghanistan?
What would happen to turn out all of a sudden they say, hey, there's a bomb threat in Phoenix, Atlanta and Pittsburgh. Oh, sorry. No take back. Sees doesn't matter that a million people didn't vote because they were afraid of a bomb threat. Don't you wish you would have voted early? Now, understand that. What if you have covid or your kid gets sick? I know some of you say, but nothing will prevent me from voting. OK. I mean, look, there's things that happen in life. We've played that game before. But remember, with Carrie Lake's election, guys.
How long those lines were when the machines went down don't have a repeat of the 2022 election. And so I'm imploring you to diversify our votes over a longer period of time, which is a way that you can participate in the system outside of what's happening. Go vote tomorrow. So, Don, I want to ask you what we've seen it. I mean, this cost us a governor's race in Nevada.
Your neighbor. Senate race. Yeah. Sorry. Senate race in Nevada. Last time, Elko County, which is like the most Republican county in there. They had like a hundred year snowstorm on Election Day. We lost no race for a Senate seat. By 2000 votes. By 2000 votes. There's I think 16000 Republican voters in that county that didn't turn up. It was a terrible snowstorm. People sat at home. They said it's close enough. We're good.
Don't take any chances. You might laugh, but if it rains on election day, we're totally ruined here in Phoenix. I mean, like, let's just be honest, right? I mean, seriously, like, I mean, all of a sudden there's rain, people, like, their hazards are on. I grew up in Chicago, okay, so this whole thing's crazy to me. Vote early and do not allow them to take election day from us. Don, I want to ask you one final thing, and then we're going to take a couple questions from our best activists that are chasing votes right now that have earned the right to ask you a question, okay? Okay.
So Don, it's a personal one. We all remember where we were on July 13th when Donald Trump got shot. I'm sure many of you had a pit in your stomach if you heard it before you saw it. If someone texted you, OMG, Trump just got shot. Because we all kind of had a feeling that this was that that's where this was going, right? Where they were saying it out loud, where there were issues with protection that they said we're not going to allow him to become president.
We remember when we saw the footage of the bullet graze his ear by a millimeter that would have changed our country forever. So, Don, I want to ask you personally, where were you? And then secondly, from your personal opinion, do you think it was luck or something bigger at play? Well, it was definitely something bigger. You know, I'm a big outdoorsman. I came from a competitive shooting background. I was nationally ranked as a long-range shooter and high-power shooter, that kind of stuff, like...
You know, and I was telling my dad even afterwards, he was like, well, you know, 130 yards feels pretty far. I'm like, that's like you missing a six inch putt. Like someone else was looking out, not just for him and my family, but for our country. I honestly, I've probably, let's say I've been to like a billion rallies.
A billion, probably close to that. Maybe a little Trump hyperbole there. But like I've never seen my father like look to a chart. It's not what he does. Right. It's not, you know, he's talking off the cut. Let alone early in a rally. Let alone early. Early. No, he would never do that. Like maybe later. I don't think I've ever even seen it once to turn his head at that exact instance, to have a guy with 10 minutes of prep time, 20 minutes of knowledge that there's thing they still let up that they knew about it 10 minutes before they still let him get on the stage.
Then they knew about it. You see all the body cam footage. No, there's a guy with a rifle on a roof. He's speaking. They don't do anything. You know, you don't want to get conspiratorial, but like you don't have that many failures. You know, it doesn't that doesn't exist. But you also don't get that lucky. That's a statistical impossibility.
That's more statistically impossible, frankly, than Joe Biden outperforming Barack Obama only in Atlanta, Philadelphia, Detroit, and Milwaukee. Like, it didn't happen, folks, right?
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I was with my daughter, Kai, the one we were just talking about. And I got the very uncharacteristic phone call, which is it was a Saturday. And she's like, Dad, I want to go fishing. Who are you and what have you done with my 17? She hangs out with me, but it's almost like reluctant, right? She's 17. But she did. So when you get that phone call, you're going fishing. So I took her out. We're out on the boat and I get the call. We're 10 miles offshore because I live in Florida right on the water there. It's easy to get out. We're having a great day. And I get a call.
Don, your dad's been shot. Well, and? Like, you know, some calls you get, they're good or bad. There's degrees of good or bad. Like, there's only degrees of bad here. Like, really, really bad to extremely, extremely bad. And, well, we don't know. I guess the one thing they did was, right, maybe was shut down communications because they weren't sure if there were other things or IED attacks. So I'm flying in, trying to get home. No communication. 90 minutes.
I didn't know if my father was dead or alive. My daughter's with me. She's, you know, freaked out, obviously. She's spent more time with him than I have in my life because, again, because of golf. I don't play golf. I'm like the redheaded stepchild of the Trump family that doesn't play golf. So, you know, by then I'm seeing some of the social. I saw him come back defiant, and I was like, that's cool. But, like, you know, I'm also a hunter. I've shot a deer, and it runs for a couple hundred yards and then, you know, may die. That doesn't happen instantly. You can come back and still not even know.
So we didn't know for an hour and a half. And finally, we're there. My whole family basically got to my house and my ex-wife and all my kids and my brothers on the phone. And we finally got the call and we all kind of conference in. And, you know, he's like, hey, I'm OK. And I just like, you know, I'd seen the video of him coming back up. Fight, fight, fight. And I just like, you know, dad, that was the most badass thing I've ever seen. And I meant it. And at that time.
You know, you're going through all sort of the adrenaline dump, the emotion of all of it. It's pretty wild. And so it's just, it's this really sort of, you know, almost uncomfortable conversation. I'm usually the guy that's totally inappropriate in most situations. And so I was like, you know, you can see it's just weird. I was like, we got to break the ice here a little bit. So I was like, so dad, most important question, like, how's the hair? Done. Done. The hair's okay.
The hair, it's a little bloody. Lots of blood, Don. Lots of blood. But the hair is okay. So I go, how about the ear? He goes, ear's okay. I'm trying to figure out getting sewn up right now. But I go, so on a scale of like one to Evander Holyfield, how bad is it? So it was a little bit of an icebreaker, you know, sort of changed the dynamic. But you can see how messed up we are as a country. Like if that happened to a Democrat, if that happened to Joe Biden, if it happened to Barack
You know, it would be the only thing we would have heard about since July 13th all the way right now. And in two days, it was like it never happened. And then it went from it never happened to it's actually his fault. No, it's actually the media's fault. They gaslight the people. They say you're Hitler, you're Nazi, you're a fascist. You're the greatest threat to democracy in the history of democracy. The world will literally end.
You do that every day for nine years, even if it's nonsense, even if it's the other side that's locking up their political opponents, even if it's the other side that's pushing all of those things. You're going to radicalize them. Does anyone really believe that there's a 20-year-old that was so radicalized, so radicalized at 20 that had magically no social media footprint, no – it was just out of thin air that he was so radicalized.
That didn't just happen, folks. That was created intentionally. When they couldn't impeach him, they tried twice. When they couldn't get him out that way, they tried to bankrupt him. When they couldn't try to do that, they tried to jail him. When they couldn't do that, they tried to take away his businesses. When they couldn't do that, what's left?
And then we hear about, you know, well, Iran snuck in missiles into America and made to try to take them out that way. And, you know, think about it. It's like the greatest campaign endorsement in the world. Like Iran is trying to kill my father. I got the call last weekend from the FBI. Apparently, like I'm number two on that list. Well, they say I was told by a couple of people in Intel and otherwise they say, well, if they take out a family member, it's not quite the same. It doesn't merit the same response. So you do just as much damage to the individual you're trying to hurt.
but without getting like attacked by America. So I'm like, oh, that's great. You know, he's got like 750 people with machine guns guarding him. I'm like, I got like an AR and a Glock in my truck. Like it's a little different, but I'm good with it. So, you know, that's where we are. It's been created. And again, like all things that have morphed into just total degeneracy, it does not have to be this way. And you guys are the tip of the spear to make that stop and end the nonsense once and for all.
I want to take a question from a couple of our activists. I want to remind you guys, there is no path to the White House without this state. And guys, I moved to this state because it was a freedom-loving, liberty-loving state. And the Democrats have done damage to this state, and they've been able to, quote-unquote, win this state. In 2020, it was the first time that a Democrat got the electoral vote to Arizona since 1950. And we know all the elements around it. We're not going to let that happen.
We're going to make it too big to rig. We're going to turn out every single voter. We're going to vote early. And we are going to send a message around the world. Okay, we're going to go to a couple of our activists here that have earned the right to be able to ask a question or two. So just, yes, go ahead.
Hi, Mr. Trump, and hi, Mr. Kirk. One of my professors here at ASU believed that the 10% tariffs on imported goods would lead to retaliation from other countries. Do you believe this is true? And if so, how would we minimize that retaliation? Yeah, you should ask your professor, where was the retaliation when Trump did it the first term? And again, this is such a silly question. By the way, the tariffs that Donald Trump put in place, you know Joe Biden didn't get rid of any of them.
Because tariffs work. You see, tariffs work, especially if you're in the incumbent economic power. Now, they'll say, well, it will raise prices. You know how companies can avoid tariffs? Make your product in America and there's no tariff. And especially when it comes, and Don, I know you have thoughts on this, to critical manufacturing, such as pharmaceutical drug development, vitamin C, auto mechanics. Look, if you're a country that doesn't make stuff, you're no longer a country, you're a colony.
And we know this from the deindustrialization of the American heartland where I grew up in Chicago. Who's from Ohio? Who's from Michigan? Who's from you guys know what I'm talking about, where we made a deal where we shut down our factories and we sent them to China and we deindustrialized the heartland and we filled it with drugs and it's full of suicide and depression and opioids. And we got a bunch of plastic stuff in return. It was a bad deal for our country.
And Donald Trump is the first leader since we brokered that deal in 30 years to say that China's ripping us off and we're going to bring the jobs back to this country. That's how you should respond. Yeah. And those same professors, they love to talk about free trade. How many Fords are sold in China? How many Chevys are sold in China?
We export, we import all the pharmaceuticals, all the things that matter to us, we get from them. The only export that America has had over the last 50 years, you know what it is? Your American Dream.
Our middle class, we've exported it to the rest of the world. So fair trade would be great if it was real. But try selling American goods abroad. They tear up the hell out of these things. So we say, you know, we don't play the same game. It's sort of like Republicans traditionally against the Democrats. We're playing t-ball while they're playing hardball.
They call out all the this and that and we say, OK, we'll do it right. And they're doing it in their in our face each and every day. So free trade could be great, but it doesn't exist because the other side is never playing. We, for a change, have to be playing the same game. We did it. It worked. We boosted our jobs. We increased our manufacturing. We had the lowest wage income earners actually see real wage growth. And then Joe Biden gets in.
They inflate the hell out of everything. Most of that's gone, but they didn't get rid of the trailers because it's still a work and it wasn't detrimental to us at all. That's the difference between a professor and a guy like Elon Musk, who's actually doing it in the real world, right? You know, those who can't do teach. And so, yeah, he's just wrong. Thank you. Thank you. We'll take a couple more. Then I got to get some get down to another event. Yeah.
Hey, Charlie. I'm a student at Arizona State University, and my question was, what's your advice to students that are still hesitant about voting in this election? Voting or just voting for Trump? Or both, maybe. Both. So first of all, you have to be a stakeholder of your country, and voting is the minimum requirement for that. There's no good excuse not to vote, period. And I've heard them all.
Let's go through the list. Number one, it's a waste of time. Look, you guys wait in line for hours to get a Frappuccino latte sometimes, cumulatively throughout the year at Starbucks. You guys will wait 30 minutes in line at a TSA line to go on vacation or to fly home. This takes five minutes to fill in a mail-in ballot to make sure that your voice can be heard in your government, a right that people died so that you guys can have. Number two, people say, but Charlie, my vote is assuredly rigged. Well, you don't know it's assuredly rigged.
But do you know how I make sure your voice and your vote gets cancelled? By not voting.
It is a guarantee that your voice is not involved in the process by not voting. And finally, they'll say, oh, they're all the same. Well, if the politicians were exactly the same, why is it that Donald Trump is facing 700 years in federal prison? They're trying to kill him so much and take his business empire away. They would shrug their shoulders and say, oh, business as usual. It doesn't matter because Donald Trump is different than the rest of them. He governed differently. He believes different things and he will do different stuff as president.
Yeah, there's different rules. You know, I understand, according to CNN, that I am not the upstanding citizen that Hunter Biden is. But I've done 50 hours of congressional testimony for treason, which is a crime punishable by death.
I don't think I've ever done anything even remotely wrong. I certainly didn't take a billion dollars from China like Hunter Biden did. I wasn't laundering money for Russian oligarchs tied to sex trafficking and human trafficking rings. Wasn't taking money from Ukraine for no-show jobs for business I didn't understand in languages I don't speak. There's a different standard. We have to understand that. You have to make it count. When Charlie and I started doing this, I mean, we were on college campuses in 2015.
There were very few Republicans. The first thing we always opened up, hey, if your teachers knew you were here right now, would you be penalized academically? Every hand in the room went up. I go and do it now with Charlie or I see what he's doing each and every day on these college campuses. Like they're more MAGA than I would have ever imagined because they understand it. They understand that this country is their future. Guess what? I've done well for myself. I'll be fine.
You guys are the ones that are going to get left holding the bag. You guys are going to be the ones that are going to have to deal with this. We're getting to the point where there's a point of no recovery. We talked about the debt. We talked about this. You can sit back and do nothing and deal with the consequences of that. But I can assure you, your life is going to be far worse off. Get out there. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. We'll try to go to one or two more. Yep.
Hello, Donald Trump Jr., Charlie Kirk. It's an honor to be talking to you both. And I'm a freshman here at ASU, and I was just wondering if come November, you know, God forbid Kamala Harris was to win the election, how exactly would that affect the life of a college student such as myself?
Yeah, I mean, I'm not going to exaggerate. We will enter a Great Depression the likes of which the country has never seen. Her economic policies alone, we already see what they are doing. She will flood the zone with cheap money. She will tax unrealized capital gains, which I don't think you understand how bad that will be for capital markets. It will crater the stock market and destroy the founders' market as we know it. She will ruin energy independence. She will allow 30 million new illegals into the country. And world war, probably. And guess what?
I'm too old. You'll be fighting that war, not me. My kids will be fighting it with you, and I don't want them doing that for no reason. No, you're exactly right. You'll be drafted into a world war, probably.
And that's not an exaggeration. We are inches away from a nuclear war right now, unnecessarily against Russia. And so we'll be invaded from the south and we won't stop it, but you'll be deployed to an oversea country to find an enemy that we should not be fighting. And your purchasing power, your dollar will go down and they'll see their opportunity for a permanent communist revolution to break the country to then be able to socialize it. Donald Trump is our last chance, the last gasp that we have
to save the civilization that we love. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. All right, this will be the final question. Hi, guys. Thank you so much for coming out here today. Charlie, it's nice to see you again. Thank you for coming out here to ASU. My question is, what is your guys' opinion on the Federal Reserve and how it has affected the national debt?
Yeah, it's big time. Look, the Federal Reserve, and Donald Trump was always so clear about this, the Federal Reserve should serve in the best interest of working people in our country. The Federal Reserve unnecessarily was able to play games with interest rates that has allowed government spending over the last couple of years to be exploded. Guys, understand this, that when Donald Trump was president, interest rates were around 2%. And you are able to lower interest rates if you have growth.
Growth and interest rates are directly correlated together. Interest rates have been raised because we don't have the growth we should, and we have very, very high inflation. Longer conversation, the Federal Reserve, I think, needs super reform. But in its current form and its current structure, the way that we get interest rates down so you guys can afford homes is we drill, baby, drill, no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security, and return money back to the American people. Thank you. Thank you.
All right, guys, let me close this evening. Tomorrow you go and vote. That's the plan. Tomorrow you go and vote. You don't allow a terrorist attack to all of a sudden get in the way of your voting. Tomorrow you go and vote. And then you get five friends who do the same. We have 19 election days. How many of you guys remember on election days prior where you used to text all your friends and tell your friends to go vote on election day?
Go do that for 19 straight days. And follow up, make sure they actually do it. And follow up and drag them if necessary. Guys, we're up against the CIA, the Department of Justice, the FBI, Goldman Sachs, the World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab. We're up against George Soros. We're up against the powers of the world. But guess what? I believe that God spared Donald Trump's life so that our country can continue. And what does success look like?
On November 5th, we're going to watch the broadcast, God willing. Arizona's 11 electoral votes go to Donald Trump and we'll make it happen. God bless you guys and thank you so much. Let's go! Thanks so much for listening, everybody. Email us as always, freedom at charliekirk.com. Thanks so much for listening and God bless. For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to charliekirk.com.
