"Lose By Less," Win the Race
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33 days out from counting day, and the work is still ongoing, everybody. Yesterday was a remarkable day. Yesterday, we continued our campus tour across the country in the effort to lose by less. To lose by less on these college campuses. We know that we're probably not going to win the youth vote on a lot of these college campuses. It still tilts liberal. It is still a majority liberal and left-wing environment.

With that being said, though, can we lose by less? Instead of losing by 30 points, can we lose by 15 points? Instead of losing by 20 points, can we lose by eight points? We went yesterday to Grand Canyon University, which is a private Christian school on the west side of Phoenix. They do a great job. Very good basketball team, might I add. And wonderful people. I've gone to GCU multiple times before, and I've never been met with the response that we received yesterday on campus.

There's a transformation unfolding on these campuses. And mind you, this is more than just the thousands of students that attended. Look at that screen, everybody, on Real America's Voice or the stream. Those of you listening on podcasting or radio, these images are up on charliekirk.com and all of our social channels. Those are thousands of students in the 104 degree heat. I wasn't even giving a speech. I was just there to come take selfies and shake some hands. Went out there, asked some questions, talked to some folks. The energy and the spirit unfolded.

was unlike anything we've grasped before. But understand, the takeaway from these events is more than just a rally and more than just enthusiasm. No, no, no. This is what makes Turning Point different. This is work that has never been done in the modern conservative movement. In fact, I don't think since the advent of the modern college campus, there has been a conservative movement nearly as successful as what we're seeing right now. Not even close.

In the history of the modern college campus. Look at those videos. Thousands and thousands of students. And this is not just at the private Christian school of GCU. We saw this at Penn State. We saw this at Arizona State University. We saw this at University of Wisconsin-Madison. What we are doing at Turning Point USA and Turning Point Action is working. And mind you, the establishment has tried to take out

Turning point at every single turn. They still are trying to plant stories. They're still trying to launch investigations against us. The Republican establishment hates turning point because of you are seeing the results right there. But again, it's more than just a rally.

What we did at Grand Canyon University is sending shockwaves across the Arizona political universe because we are now becoming very friendly with the Arizona Secretary of State and Maricopa County Recorder's office. What do I mean by that? So we do these voter registration events.

And we then, of course, have to submit the forms. So we do them at, for example, we did them last night at Dream City Church with Dr. Ben Carson. 2,000 people were there. That's right. We also had Dr. Ben Carson last night. I'll talk about that in a second. Amazing. Well, you know, we got over 100 people to pledge to commit 100 ballots. So that's 10,000 new ballots that we got pledged to chase yesterday. We do these events at Arizona State University, at Grand Canyon. But you have to submit these forms when you register these new voters to vote.

So we register all these folks and our Turning Point Action staff that does a great job. And also just, I'm going to make sure I shout out just some of the staff. I'm going to butcher this and I'm going to get in so much trouble. But Josie on the Turning Point USA side did an amazing job. She deserves a lot of credit. She was just...

That was her project. She did it in 48 hours notice. She did so well. Eric also did a really great job yesterday on the Turning Point Action side. And I want to thank the entire team. So I'm just shouting out those two people. I'm going to get in trouble. I'm going to get all these messages of people I forgot. So I apologize. But those two people in particular went above and beyond.

Eric, this is what's amazing, and I'll tell you the number in a second. So we register voters for three and a half hours at Grand Canyon University. The RNC didn't do this under Rana. No one's done this work. Turning Point is doing the difficult work to lose by less. So we have these piles of voter registration forms, and we show up to the Arizona Secretary of State office, and they're rather annoyed to see us.

You see, the Arizona Secretary of State office is controlled by Adrian Fontes, a Democrat. Here we have all these first-time voters, and instead of them being super excited, they're like, oh boy, here they come again. They're annoyed. And they're annoyed because it wasn't just that we came with 30 voter registration forms or 80 voter registration forms or 150 voter registration forms. No, no, no. Yesterday, Turning Point USA and Turning Point Action in particular being the political arm,

We registered not 300 new voters for Trump, not 500 new voters for Trump, not 600. No, no, no. 750 new first time voters for Donald Trump.

In three hours, 750 first time voters for Donald Trump at Grand Canyon University. So Eric goes to the secretary of state's office with this massive pile of voter registration forms. And instead of processing them, they made him go to the Maricopa County recorder's office. Eventually, they received the forms. Eventually, they accepted them and processed them.

But the Democrats are getting used to us showing up every day with these piles of first-time voters. And mind you, this used to be an exclusive Democrat project. It used to always be the Democrat groups of the Latino outreach groups, the youth vote groups. They would show up in the days before the voter registration deadline, and they would flood the zone with voter registration forms, maybe some of them erroneous. Let me say, the 750 forms that Turning Point Action submitted yesterday, those were not erroneous. Those were legit erroneous.

right there real forms real students and remember that's the problem we submitted 750 yeah go ahead blake that's the problem charlie they're not just you know some like homeless guy that they found and you know they can put all of them at a starbucks exactly don't you know charlie this is supposed to be a low turnout election people this is the low turnout election year that

That's the strategy. And that's exactly, yeah. And I want to get into that because I think it's really important. It's actually my greatest concern. My greatest concern is if we lose, we lose because we don't turn out. And all the polls show that, all the data shows that. And it's the great concern. So Donald Trump fell 10,000 ballots short in 2024, 2020, 10,000 ballots short. And in just one day, we registered 7%.

of his deficit in 2020. And now I am here to announce, which is a big deal, since June, Turning Point Action has far exceeded the registration deficit of the amount that Donald Trump fell short in the state of Arizona.

just this summer and in fall. That is a very big deal, everybody. And that doesn't count all the natural voter registration. That doesn't count all of the organic. By the way, I've registered new voters. As I say, I go on my walk every morning. People want a selfie. I only take selfies with registered voters.

And I can tell you right now, this is work that did not happen in 2020. And it is exponential. It's not just that we registered 750 new first-time Trump voters to vote at Grand Canyon University. These people that love Trump, I mean, I'm talking about on fire for Trump. And if you don't believe it, wait till you see the video of I was doing Man on the Street. I said, who are you voting for? Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump.

This is not normal to have this response. Blake, I want to get you in on this about a minute remaining. Blake, to have this kind of response on a college campus is unique. This is not something that we see every election cycle. It's 100% a new trend. And I've only been with you two years, but I remember your events that you're doing in late 22, early 23. Much more hostile crowd, smaller crowd. And it's...

It's very jarring to go to relatively big schools, Kansas State or Penn State, as you mentioned, and just very large crowds. And it's not just the number of people. They're much more assertive and confident about what they think. It's just much more acceptable and even... I hesitate to use the word, but it's kind of cool to be supporting this movement. It's so much less...

very much like dorky or embarrassing there just used to be this weird shame that would attach to being a right of center person on a college campus and it was like they almost reveled in it and that was such a loser attitude to have and so that's the coolest thing that we see now is they've transcended this old like born loser attitude and they want to win and they think their ideology is correct and they don't concede that the left is somehow like morally better than them

Well said, everybody. There's something happening on these college campuses. We will lose by less. And I just want to thank the educational work of Turning Point USA that's been changing the culture and the political work of Turning Point Action. There are no more important organizations, I believe this, I'm a little biased, than Turning Point USA, Turning Point Action in the country doing the work out in 104 degree heat to try to save the civilization.

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I want to just reiterate to all of you, this is by no means normal. The trends are generally in our favor right now. It is hard to find, I mean this sincerely, that could there be a non-candidate Democrat that could draw a crowd like that? I mean, maybe like George Clooney or Brad Pitt, Taylor Swift, probably Katy Perry. I mean, I'm sure. But I'm talking about someone who's just maybe in the political punditry world. I don't think so.

And we're seeing this on campus after campus after campus. And again, I don't want to misrepresent. It's almost a guarantee that Kamala Harris will win the youth vote. But I don't think she's going to win it nearly by the margins that previous youth votes

The youth totals that we saw in 2020 and certainly not in 2016 and definitely not with Barack Obama back in 2008 and 2012. These are waves and waves of patriots. My greatest concern, and Blake shares it, is that, yes, we have that crowd. Show that one more time. And just only a handful of them show up. Only a handful of them turn out.

This is why our obsession at Turning Point Action is to chase ballots and to drive turnout. Turnout will make or break this entire election. This is not a persuasion election anymore. And the question is, what are we doing to drive turnout? Well, at Turning Point Action, we're doing quite a lot. Hundreds and hundreds of full-time people, thousands of volunteers. But Blake, can you support me in this? I don't know if you agree or disagree that it seems that turnout is the ingredient for

That is the most worrisome if it does not manifest for Donald Trump. It definitely is. We've remarked on this throughout the summer that there has the polling indicates there's been at least a bit of a shift in what Donald Trump's coalition is. Historically, the Republican coalition was high turnout voters and the Democrat coalition was lower turnout voters. So the Democrats would go absolutely hog wild. They need turnout to be as high as possible.

And that's still kind of held in 2016 in 2020, but it shifted a lot. Donald Trump is doing better than before with young voters. He's doing better than before with black and Hispanic voters, Asian voters, uh, naturalized immigrant voters, uh,

But the most straightforward way to put this is if you poll people and ask them, did you vote in 2020? Did you vote in 2020 and 2022? Or have you not voted at all in the last few elections? Donald Trump wins big, massively with people who did not vote in either 2022 or 2024.

Which means you need, if we're able to get people who passed on the last presidential election to vote, it is very likely they will be voting for us. And if you didn't vote in the last election for any reason other than you were under 18, chances are you're a person who's not super engaged. You forget about the election. You don't really care that much about it. You're not a person who's super likely to vote. You need to be kind of nudged, pushed through the door to do it.

And the question is, is that going to happen? Because I think Republicans often think like, oh, I'm this guy. I'm so autonomous. I will get it done. But one, a lot of those people don't do it. And two, not everyone is like you. There are people out there that you've got to ask, nag to vote. And the truth is, this is just being truthful, is we don't have coming out of the Trump campaign itself or the RNC, we don't have the same

apparatus that the Democrats spent decades building up and are really experienced in setting up, which means it's on groups like us and on individual voters to do that work, to ask that question. It's your job to talk to the people in your church, in your basketball league, in your friend group, in your book club, in your discord group, in your

I don't know. Do people still play Halo? Whatever. Whatever group you're in. If they're going to vote the way we need them to, you need to ask them, are you registered? Did you vote? We can go do it together. I will drive you. You have to put in that work because this election will be won or lost on the margins. Both candidates have 45% baked in. It's just that 10% of swing that's going to decide everything.

And I'll be very honest, the Democrats have a far superior turnout operation than we do. And that's why if it's tied, it's advantaged Democrats. I'm just going to be honest. Now, how much organic turnout does Trump generate because of the attachment people have to him and the energy? We don't know. But we do know this, that Democrats, this is a fact, and I'm not trying to freak you guys out. I'm trying to get you to work. I'm trying to get you to

Do something. Democrats have overperformed every public poll since the reversal of Roe versus Wade. They have overperformed every single poll. They have the machinery, the apparatus, and the sophistication. They're the ones overperforming polling now because they have hundreds of millions of dollars spent on a turnout operation. And so if we lose, it'll be because there was not an investment done in turnout and we did not do the work. We've won the argument. We've won the debate. The debate is over. The country's with us. The country's center right on every issue.

except abortion. Now can we get the people that agree with us to go vote?

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What would the disturbing takeaway be? Yes, we registered 750 people in three hours. But that means that if we didn't show up, that's 750 people that support Trump that were not voting. That's not good, everybody. That means that there are millions of people out there that we have not yet found and we have not yet registered to vote that are supporting us, that love our movement, that share our worldview. We've won the debate.

And how much low hanging fruit out there is there? And this is my biggest concern in November. My biggest concern is that we have all these crowds and all this enthusiasm and we think we're going to have a high turnout. And it turns out that we're two or three percent lower. We're like, well, what happened?

We were doing well on the ground and everyone agreed with us. It's because we did not do the technical, practical work to drive up turnout. And that is exactly what we are doing at Turning Point Action with our Commit 100. Sentiment is not enough, okay? Sentiment is not enough. You have to drive turnout. Now, some of you understandably say, but Charlie, what about the fraud? What about the cheating? I totally hear you on that. But think about it.

We don't have a right to complain about fraud if we have 750 people at Grand Canyon that aren't voting. So don't lecture me about fraud if our own side isn't turning out. By the way, I hope there are a lot of groups. I know there are doing lawsuits, cleaning up voter rolls. All that stuff's important. But there are one way to first solve the issue of our deficit with balloting is to turn out more of our own people.

So right now, we have states that are already doing early voting. If you live in Virginia, you can go vote. Go vote right now. Minnesota, you can go vote. South Dakota, Blake's people think Trump's going to win South Dakota. Vermont, go vote. Pennsylvania, 22 counties right now.

are allowing early voting, including Allegheny County. Allegheny County, home to Pittsburgh, began hosting over-the-counter voting in the lobby of the county office building on Monday and said people who applied for mail-in ballots have started receiving them in the mail this week. Now, let me tell you why voting early is important. We talk about the Cary Lake example. When I went to go vote for Cary Lake back in 2022, there were two-and-a-half-hour waiting lines, machine tabulator problems, and traffic.

A lot of people were disenfranchised, tens of thousands of people minimum, maybe even more than that. And Carrie Lake should have been governor and she wasn't. Number two, remember Adam Laxalt? Adam Laxalt should be the senator from Nevada. We told everyone to go vote on election day. It was a mistake that I made. But, you know, people that were in charge of the apparatus were the ones largely responsible. There was a record snowstorm, a blizzard that remember Jeremy Renner, the actor, good guy. He got his car flipped over. That's that blizzard.

On election day in northern Nevada, the reddest part of Nevada, and Adam Laxalt fell short. How much did he fall short of, by the way, Blake? Can you find that back against Cortez Masto? Or how about right now, like 5,000 votes? Thank you, Andrew. And they say that the snowstorm depressed turnout by about 15,000 votes. That right there. So if all those people would have voted early, they could have circumvented the election.

blizzard or whatever happened in Northern Nevada. It was a day of chaos is what it was. And then of course the example that's right in front of us, we need to do everything we can. We're sending money. We're sending resources to help Western North Carolina right now. We have Corey Mills coming on next hour to talk about that. But imagine if a flood happens, a hurricane happens. What if your kid gets the flu? What if you get the flu? What if you get COVID?

Everything might not be perfect on election day. So why are we acting as if 12 hours is going to be enough for us to defeat a 30-day blue machine? The answer is it's not. And we should have Senator Adam Laxalt, which would have spared us from a lot of this nonsense here. If we do not engage with early voting, we're going to fail. So you might say, but Charlie, that's not the way we should vote. You're right. The way we should vote is show up in person,

Voter ID, paper ballots. Election day is the last day of voting, but let's take the example from Grand Canyon University. Those are 750 college kids. Do you think that 750 new college kids for Trump are all going to show up and remember to show up

On time, on election day for Trump? Of course not. They'll forget. By the way, that Grand Canyon is in a bad area. It's in a very crime-infested area. Do they have a voting center on Grand Canyon University? I don't know. You might have to go into the local neighborhood where...

There's a lot of crime there. A lot of kids don't like go there. In fact, they're told not to go a couple blocks away from Grand Canyon University. A lot of gang violence, a lot of bad stuff. You're trying to tell me that all 750 of those kids are going to show up on election day, wait in line. They might have class. The weather's going to be great. You're trying to tell me, no, instead, the more logical way to do this is, hey, those 750 new Trump kids, here's your mail-in ballot. Fill it out.

bring it back in. That's far more logical, far more rational to get our side to go vote. And the college kid example is great. We all know that college kids are not exactly known to be the most timely, the most, let's just say the greatest memory of when to show up. And let's just say they're college kids, okay? And that's fine. You should cut them some slack. They're figuring their life out. That's where you develop, where you grow, it's where you become a better version of yourself.

So you're able to put points on the board during voting month instead of just saying, show up on election day, show up on election day. We will fall short and we will lose with that mentality. We will lose if we act as if our major movement can all fit in a 12 hour period.

And if you want to vote on election day, that's great. I hope you don't get sick. I hope your house doesn't get flooded. I hope it's not a snowstorm. And I hope that the machines don't fail like they did in the Cary Lake election. If those things don't happen, great, go vote on election day. By the way, what if you have to travel for work? What if your car breaks down? What if you're a single mom and you have to go to the pediatrician office and you've got a lot of problems on your hands? I know it's a paradigm shift. I understand.

But the logical way in front of us is that for lower likely voters, like college kids, single moms, plumbers, electricians, welders, police officers, nurses, go do it now. Get it done early. And then also, you're telling the campaign, because we have all the access, the campaign doesn't, so do we at Turning Point Action, once you vote, you're crossed off the list. Blake, is there a way to win if we only vote on Election Day as the Trump movement? I don't think there is, Charlie. I think the Democrats have built up

a method that allows them to get their people to the polls over an entire month-long period that's more efficient in terms of resources, it's more efficient in terms of who they can focus on, and to think we can just...

beat it. It's like, you know, we make fun of the Kamala campaign for running on vibes, you know, the whole brat summer thing and saying, we're just going to win because we're going to be so intense. We're all going to vote on election day and nothing can stop us. That's, that's putting your trust in vibes instead of putting your trust in actually doing the work to win. And in the end, the winner is the person who gets the most pieces of paper into the box.

And I don't know why you would want to only have one day to put your paper into the box instead of 25 or 30 or 40 days to do it. Do we have our issues with mail voting, early voting? Yes, we do. We have our issues with a lot of things. We have our issues with, you know, the stuff they do with polling places. We have our issues with all sorts of stuff. But

We work within the rules of the game as it is played. I have I have issues with rules in the NFL and how they run that game. But you still play by the rules of the game, not by this fantasy different game that you wish existed. And in the system we have right now, we have a large window to vote and we should take advantage of that. We have to take advantage of it.

We have to maximize our advantage according to how the rules are currently written. And here's the open secret, everybody. Democrats are cheering for lower turnout for the first time since like 1940.

They hope that turnout isn't high because the lower likely voter is now a Trump voter. So that's why they're muting a lot of their voter registration drives. They're muting the PSAs on TV. It's not the same bedlam that it was in 2020 because they think our movement is going to show up. We win. We we collaborate these people. We we are in a great spot if we get every person who agrees with us to go vote. But it's going to require so much work. It's require each one of you to go chase ballots for 30 days in Arizona.

Wisconsin. What does that mean? You go, for example, those 750 kids in now Grand Canyon, that's step one. You know what step two is? Now we have to go send chasers to go make sure all those 750 kids submit their pieces of paper and we will. And that's what we do. So we register them first, 750, and then we're going to go knock on their dorm room.

Hey, what is it? It's 2 p.m. Yes, you should be up. What do you want? Can you fill out your ballot, bro? What? Oh, yeah, yeah. Fill it out. Let's go. You can't touch the ballot. You nag them. You get it done. You walk them to the drop box. Boom. Knock on the next dorm room. What is it? Ballot? I thought that I voted when I filled out that form at the Charlie Kirk event. No, no. That was registering to vote. Oh, okay. Fill it out. Boom. That is what ballot chasing is. Dorm room by dorm room.

building by building, door by door. That is how we win, to be a politely, a polite, nagging force to impact millions of low propensity voters to vote during voting month.

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tpaction.com/100. Blake, you have a thought here about the get out the vote operators and we want them working more days, not less days. Yeah, I think this really helps for illustrating why the long voting, taking advantage of the full voting period is important. Let's say you can hire, you have the manpower to have 50 get out the vote workers.

And if you only decide to vote on election day, think about the choke point you're going to have. Do you want those 50 get out the vote people to be harassing people who actually were 100% going to vote, but they haven't voted yet? They are not voting till after work. These people are now spending time calling them, nagging them, going after these votes unnecessarily. Now imagine your 100% locked in voters just cast their ballot.

three weeks beforehand. They're off the list. You can check them off. You don't have to worry about those people. That means your get out the vote people can focus all of their attention and energy on the actual marginal voters, the people that we're struggling to get out who are our supporters, but they're difficult to wrangle. They're busy. They procrastinated. You can put all of your focus on the marginal voters that you need to put in effort to turn out.

There's a huge amount of wasted effort when you do all of your get out the vote on election day because there are people who are 100% going to vote no matter what. But because they weren't banked, because they weren't locked in already, you still have to worry and fret about those people because you can't easily tell who the 100% voters are at a distance.

And it's just another thing. Like, let's say you can get 10 cars. You can get just as much mileage for driving people to places. You can get just as much mileage out of one car that can work 10 days as you can out of 10 cars working one day. It's a lot cheaper to have one car than to have 10 cars or vans or whatever vehicle you want to work with. It's so much more efficient in terms of election resources if you're 10 out of 10,

votes every election people get their ballots in early. That's exactly right. And so the, someone asks here, Charlie, my question is why didn't these kids register to vote before you showed up on campus? If they intend to vote? Well, first of all, many of them were registered in other States like California, Oregon, and Washington. Number two,

A lot of people don't think about registering to vote, actually. They just think you can show up to vote. It's a very complicated thing. Or they're just not as engaged in politics. You know, we're very committed. We're very involved. There are a lot of young people who they care more about

Professional sports. They care more about playing video games. They care more about trying to find someone to date. And yeah, they might agree with us on the issues, but it's not front and center. Should they care more about it? Yeah, this country's in trouble. But that is how people are. You have to go after people where they are. And a lot of people, they'll respond when you ask them, when you make the pitch, when you make the effort.

Yes, and so the takeaway here is this, and we can read data after data. In fact, there's an article here from the New Republic, which is a communist website,

which is, will this election be decided by non-voters? And it says here, quote, James Blair told Reuters, who's great, we'll have him back on the show, we know that they favor us, but we have to get them to the polls. According to Reuters, Elon Musk's America PAC and Charlie Kirk's Turning Point Action are both targeting people who don't vote in the hope that this year they will. And so, look, the thought process is this.

high propensity voters, those of you that watch this show, I don't need to bother you to go vote. You guys have been waiting for years to go vote. But the 750 new college kids on campus, they're new voters. We have to go nag them. For the plumber, electrician, the welder, the construction worker that are less likely to vote, we have to go find them. In fact,

Who is this low propensity voter the New Republic writes? According to a poll conducted in September 13th through 23rd in Michigan by Data for Progress, a progressive think tank, the infrequent voter is more likely to be more likely than not white, employed either full-time or part-time. If our low propensity voter isn't working, it's probably because he's retired or a student and he's more likely politically independent. Not voting in 2020 situates him among roughly one-third of eligible voters,

who failed to do so, even though turnout was higher in 2020 than any election since 1900, according to Pew Research. Turnout could well be higher in 2024, which is why the campaign is, Trump campaign is stuck in this group. Now we could be surprised. If we actually do our work, the higher the turnout in this election, guys, that's gonna be a great early indicator that November's going well. But here's the thing, turnout is not something that you just watch and like the weather and you hope that it happens.

you can effectuate change with turnout. Turnout is an effect of a cause and the cause is you. So you can be the cause to drive turnout. You can then go knock on every door, chase those ballots, be nagging. You can drive the turnout leading up into counting day, which is election day.

And that is the missing ingredient. I will say it one more time. If Trump is to not win, if Kamala Harris is to win, it will be because we did not do the work to turn out our voters. That simple. Turnout is the missing ingredient. If we turn out at 2020 levels or even better, we're going to be in the driver's seat. The debate is over. We win on every major issue.

Can we get the people who agree with us to fill out a piece of paper and put it in a box? 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.

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