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Right-wing revolution is going very well. We're on day three of book launch week, 45books.com. That is 45books.com to get your copy and you get a signed copy as well. And it is a great segue to what I want to talk about here. There's really not any major news right now as far as Biden is still barely making sense and making any sentences.
Donald Trump had an amazing event in Wisconsin yesterday, a huge show of force in the state of Wisconsin, in Racine, Wisconsin. In the middle of the day, Donald Trump can command nearly a 10,000 person audience in Racine, Wisconsin. One of the elements of this campaign is how Donald Trump
is doing significantly well with people who are less likely to vote. This is a new phenomenon. Typically, Democrats enjoy structural advantages when it comes to lower propensity voters. So what is a lower propensity voter? If you're someone who didn't vote in the 2022 midterms, if you're someone who didn't vote in 2020, if you're someone who didn't vote in the 2018 midterms, you are a low propensity voter.
Typically, Republicans do well with higher propensity voters, as we mentioned yesterday. And my email inbox looked like Hiroshima and Nagasaki after I even read the article that baby boomers are favoring Joe Biden. They're higher propensity voters. We're not going to talk about that today. We did that plenty yesterday. And hopefully, I think that baby boomers will end up hopefully going towards Trump with proper messaging and proper outreach.
But those are higher propensity voters. A lower propensity voter is someone who is 32 years old. They drive Uber for a living. They live on tips, which Donald Trump says he will not tax. They work their tail off. They're not really in the political system. They're certainly not college educated, but they like Donald Trump. Finding those voters, registering them, and getting them out to vote is what this entire election is about. If we get to record turnout and we turn this summer into
into low prop summer, we will be in a great place in November. There is a term, again, you're going to hear it over and over and over again, low propensity voters. Thanks to lockdowns, mass mail-in ballots, and the sheer insanity of Floydapalooza in 2020. Oh, happy Juneteenth, by the way. That's all I'm going to say about that. 2020 was the highest turnout election of this century.
While early voting and mail votes will be widespread this year, it's almost certain that turnout will fail. And the question is, who will fall for it more? It used to be taken as a given that Democrats were the low propensity party, the low turnout voters, immigrant communities, the young, the poor, and so on. But 2024 and Trump's political realignment has changed the game. Poll after poll shows a trend that was previously hard to ever grasp or imagine.
Donald Trump does worse with people who make a point in voting every election while polling best among those who vote sparingly or not even at all. This is the entire election, everybody. If you were to say what is going to determine November, it is low prop voters. If you look at people who voted in the 2022 primary elections representing the most committed, highest turnout elections, things seem very sunny for Joe Biden.
He leads in this group by about five points. According to recent New York Times polling, among those who skipped the primaries but voted in the midterm general election, Biden is up one point. But among voters who last ballot was in 2020, Donald Trump leads by two. And here's the unbelievable kicker. Among those who voted in none of those elections, Trump is leading by 14 points.
This is hard to believe, and it only gets even more radical when you dive into the data. A May Quinnipiac poll shows Donald Trump leading Biden by one point among those ages 18 to 34, when no Republican had won younger voters since 1988. The same poll shows Donald Trump getting 47% of Hispanics and 18% of blacks. For comparison, Mitt Romney managed only 27% and 6% respective in those groups.
This is the most profound political swerve of our lifetime. It is a huge opportunity, but it also is a major risk. It's a risk because you might end up leading in the polls, but you might lose in the ballots because you might be polling people who actually are not going to end up voting. This is why Donald Trump traditionally outperforms polling, because these people are not always in the likely voter polling survey.
If we do the work of getting those low props registered, if we do the work of getting those people onto the voting rolls, we're going to have a structural advantage. Again, I cannot repeat this enough. This is the most profound political swerve of our lifetime. The American electorate now seems to lean to the right, but they're also discouraged, disengaged, and quite honestly, sometimes a little bit lazy. Not you in this audience, but some people.
For decades, it was Democrats who built aggressive get out the vote operations, but though they rightly believed they benefit if turnout went generally higher. Republicans meanwhile worried that maximizing the turnout of our core base. Now everything has changed. America is filled with millions of people who dislike Biden and like Trump, but who are otherwise disengaged. They rarely or never vote and they may not even be registered. Shockingly, there are millions of people
who actually follow politics, listen to shows like this one, and care about the country, yet they still don't vote. I've seen this myself countless times. By now, I've heard all the excuses. They're just going to rig it anyway. I moved and didn't update my registration. Or the most honest and most infuriating of all, I just haven't gotten around to it.
My challenge to every single one of you is to make this low prop summer. Don't waste the summer watching rallies or monitoring polls, which will be obsolete by November anyway. Instead, we must do the work. Whenever you have a reason to think that you are with a fellow conservative or just somebody who hates Biden, take the leap and say, are you registered?
And if they are not, help them get registered. You'd be amazed. Far more people than you expect aren't registered, but still respond to a direct nudge. In fact, just in the next room, one of our interns, Danny, goes to The Ohio State University, went up to a rodeo to go register voters. Talked to five people. And the first five people all went, we love Trump. We don't believe in voting because it's all rigged. It's all broken. Five out of five.
Five people who will refuse. But let's just say it's all rigged. What is the downside of sending in your ballot? You're making like some kind of protest vote. You are guaranteeing Joe Biden will get more time in office. That is not cute. It's not interesting. You're not making a point. You're being a fool.
And that is why we have our new book out, 45books.com. However, if you want to get a signed copy of this book, register 25 voters. I will send you a copy of this book. If you register 100 voters,
We will have you on this show. In fact, we have a guest coming from Pennsylvania in the next couple of days. She registered and changed register people changing from Democrat to Republican. I think it's like 150. She's coming on the show. If you register 250 voters, we will fly you out to Phoenix. We'll have lunch with you. We'll have you on the show. You get a nice trip here to Phoenix. Twenty five hundred two fifty. Make this summer one of grittiness, of hustle.
And if you find a low propensity voter, get them on the early voting list. The greatest fraud that can occur this November is not their ballot shredding. It's not signature verification. The greatest fraud is what if we win the debate
And we have more people than them, but they refuse to vote. It's tpaction.com slash vote. That is tpaction.com slash vote. All of the tools that you need. Check it out right now.
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Okay, everybody, I want to play cut 98s. But first, I want to read this email here before I get to Mr. Carville. And this is it. This is Jono, by the way. I think it's, is that right, Jono? I'm going to send this person a signed book. They qualify. Force multiplying. Hi, Charlie. I registered 23 people today. I run a stall at a farmer's market in North Georgia, battleground state, rural area, conservative.
And today we sold eggs and prod produce at Trump prices with signs showing the difference in price since Biden inflation. We sold out at a loss, but that's not important. Think about it. This guy is running a stand of food at a loss to make a political statement. This is a total patriot. It was a great talking point and conversation starter. We collected all contacts and we will be running a Trump bus to take many to make sure they vote.
I have two other stall holders who will be doing the same next week with their products. Our aim is to register 200 voters and dedicate them to Peter Navarro and Stephen K. Bannon. Thank you for all you do. You are an inspiration to my children and a credit to your family. Well, thank you. By the way, you know, we're getting hundreds of emails of people that say they're now registering voters because we're doing this. Now, let me finish the email. I say, hey, come on the show. He says, no.
Let me get the 200 registered voters first. That will keep us something to aim for. Keeping it on the radar, so on and so forth. Thanks so much. And we're sending him a book right now, Jono. I want to say something though. That's horrifying. Why is that story horrifying? Can you guys guess as I sign this book to Jono, great patriot? You are great as I sign the book. Why is that story horrifying? How can you find 23 low-hanging fruit voters in Georgia that easily? Because we have not done the work.
That's why the prior RNC regime that we displaced, glory be to God, got run out of the way, did none of this work. I am terrified, everybody, that we might be ahead in the polls, but behind in the voter registration tactics and in the grassroots. That is a wonderful story I just read, but also equally horrifying. It shouldn't be that easy to find low propensity voters, but it is. You see, if people were emailing me, Charlie, everyone I talked to is already registered, then I'd actually feel good.
I don't feel good the more I hear about these stories. Oh yeah, so easy to find low hanging fruit. There are millions of people out there that support President Trump that are not even registered to vote. Millions.
James Carville warns about how bad Joe Biden's poll numbers are, but Joe Biden thinks that his path forward is with high propensity voters, and he is right. Joe Biden might overperform the polls if we don't do the work this summer. And that is not me fear-mongering. That's me looking at the data. Play cut 91. I don't take people.
I really appreciate how bad Biden's poll numbers are. When you look at them, it's like walking down your grandmother neck. You can't unsee them, no matter how hard you try. Oh, they're bad, but it means nothing. Democrats might be keeping Joe Biden in the race because they're confident that their apparatus can bring him across the finish line.
And if it wasn't for the ballot chasing effort at Turning Point Action, let me be clear, the new RNC and the Trump campaign, they're doing a great job. They are playing catch up. James Blair, Susie Wiles, Chris Lasavita, Stephen Chung, Laura Trump, Michael Watley, we're working well together and they're playing catch up. They're doing a much, much better job. But this is a structural problem that we've inherited. And so we have a choice. Almost everything, almost everything in life is a choice. How you feel is a choice. The attitude that you adopt is a choice. How you act is a choice.
So much in life is about the free will given to you by God. And so it is a choice. Do we spend the rest of June, the rest of July, and the rest of August as spectators or participants? That's why I love this Jono story. And he's getting a copy of the book. And I want to have him come on the show.
And by the way, bearded Viking, he says he's registering hundreds of voters. So you think about it. If just a couple thousand people in this audience, because not everyone's going to do it. Not everyone is committed to actually do work. But if a couple thousand people in this audience, let's say 1,000 people register a couple hundred people, that is 200,000 new voters. And what Jono is doing is in the battleground state of Georgia, that could make the entire program.
It is easy and it's fun because we gamify it. And now with Donald Trump's new announcement that he won't tax tips, every time you go out to eat at a Denny's or IHOP or a TGI Fridays or at the local steakhouse or the local bar, engage your waiter or waitress. Be bold enough to have that conversation. Treat them well. Tip them well, right? Donald Trump will not tax tips, but also look them in the eye and say, excuse me, sir, excuse me, ma'am.
Are you planning to vote? Oh no, I'm not registered to vote. You know that Donald Trump won't tax your tips? He won't send the IRS after your tips? That is what it's going to require.
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It is book launch week, and we've been going on Newsmax a lot. And joining us now is the CEO of Newsmax, NewsmaxInvest.com, Christopher Ruddy. Chris Ruddy, Chris, welcome to the program. Charlie, great to be on with you again. And thank you for the intro. We're looking forward to seeing you. I think you're on tonight talking about your new book, which a lot of people are getting, I hear, right wing. I hear it's the new bestseller on Amazon already. So I'm
I'm really excited to see you on the shows, Greg Kelly and Rob Schmidt, two nights in a row. That's right. Thank you for that. And Chris, you have a big announcement about what you're doing at Newsmax. Tell us all about it. All of this alternative media needs to combine forces. Tell us about it. Well, it's not big. It's, as President Trump says, huge. It's huge. We announced last week, Charlie, that we're going to go public.
Newsmax has been a private company for almost 25 years. And we're now the fourth highest rated cable news channel just behind CNN in ratings. We reach about 40 million Americans monthly. President Trump has praised us as his favorite cable news channel. And so we've had a tremendous rise.
And we felt, you know, this year, I've had so many people through the years say, can I buy shares of Newsmax? And we thought, you know, wouldn't it be great if we had thousands of people invest in Newsmax, become partners? So we're planning on going IPO later this year or early next year, subject to government approval. And we have a great investment bank bringing us publicization.
public. We're doing what's known as a pre-IPO raise in preferred shares where they get a 7% dividend. So eligible investors known as accredited investors can go online to Newsmaxinvest.com and actually sign up now if they're eligible to be a subscriber, certainly get information about the upcoming IPO, but they can buy shares and even buy credit card
And we've gotten a phenomenal response. And I think America is saying they want to have more fair media. Yeah. And talk about that. Talk about how important it is, Chris. I mean, you've been in the media business for quite some time. The media is so unbelievably slanted. Talk about the need to build that kind of alternative media, especially this election cycle where the mainstream media still has so much power over our society.
Well, you're doing important work on radio, and I know you're having a tremendous impact, Charlie. And, you know, when the Internet came along, I was one of the first websites, conservative sites, Newsmax.com. And we thought, wow, this is great. We're going to start bypassing the liberal media. We'll be as big as they are.
And then what we found is big tech closed us all down and that the media that proliferates online on Twitter and all these other places, mostly liberal still, it's even worse than it was. And in fact, the left has become far more polarizing. Fox News, which has been good for a long time, they're changing. You know, for a long time in the past couple of years, they were banning President Trump. They weren't carrying his rallies. We cover almost all of them.
I think Newsmax is needed now with this presidential election more than ever. And so we're now asking people to join with us and become part of us. And we've had a tremendous response with people just going online to NewsmaxInvest.com.
And I think it's going to be this. We don't need the money because we're a profitable company, but we're selling a share of Newsmax so that we can grow and be bigger, both online, on television, on podcasts and things like that. And, you know, the more bigger we are, the more impact we can have. And we need more alternative media, especially with the woke stuff that we're seeing online.
from every media organization now in America that's not openly conservative. They're all pretty much polarized and weaponized. Chris Ruddy, thank you so much. Talk to you soon. And thank you. Deeply appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you, Charlie. All right, everybody, email us freedom at charliekirk.com. I want to read one of our emails here. This is from Vinny. Says, Charlie, some friends of mine and I went out to some burgers at a place called Mulligan's in Jensen Beach, Florida.
One paying out bill, I put that little note for Trump and he will stop taxes on your tips. A day or two later, I think it was, but he got the same waitress and she was there on breakfast shift as well. Later, I repeated the same message on the bill and she came back and said, you know, you're not the first person that has written that I've gotten a lot of people saying that lately. She's never voted a day in her life, but she's now registered to vote and will vote for Trump.
See, that's the sort of grassroots tenacity and hustle that is necessary. I want to play a piece of tape here. Newt Gingrich has a great piece of commentary. He says 66% of the country now believes that Biden can't finish a second term. What matters is the work that we're going to do. Registering voters, chasing ballots, play cut 23. I think 66% of the country now believes that Biden can't finish a second term.
So now you have to decide about voting for Kamala Harris, who's even weaker than Biden is in terms of her appeal. I mean, I think the picture the other day in Italy where Biden just sort of wandered off, you know, something caught his attention and he's standing over there.
And finally, the prime minister of Italy, Giorgio Malone, goes over and takes him by the arm, sort of like grandfather at the family picnic. And she walks him back into being part of the group. The question, are they going to pull Joe Biden? Are they going to pull Joe Biden? The report on Biden economics or Bidenomics is remarkable. How are they going to navigate this? 27% of Americans are skipping meals because of skyrocketing food costs.
CNBC, the actual consumer price index has reached new all-time highs as inflation remains far higher than the Fed's target rate.
Let's play cut 81. On headline, non-seasonally adjusted, the actual index, it moved up to 314.069, a new all-time high. If we look at the core index, which is seasonally adjusted, that moved to 318.14. Guess what? A new all-time high. Those indices have never been higher, and they underscore the angst that the population
population has because no matter how small the month over changes get the cumulative effect is Substantial and that's what these indices continue to show us on a month-over-month basis The economy is crushing everybody and it's going to be up to us of whether we can find those low propensity voters
People say, Charlie, what is the voter registration app? It is tpaction.com slash vote to be able to register voters. It's a portal that works in all 50 states. That is tpaction.com slash vote. The emails we're receiving are quite remarkable. And they're saying, wait, Charlie, I can register people to vote. Yes, you can go out and register new people onto the voter rolls and to chase ballots. There is a serious issue in front of us, which is
If we are not able to find the people that should be voting for us, then Biden might ultimately be successful. And that's not me fear mongering. Let's put 26 back up. This was just earlier this week. This is one of our ballot chasing classes out in Wisconsin that will be registering voters, getting people out to vote, especially low prop voters. Every single one of us has the agency to make a significant difference. We have the ability to get into the grassroots.
I sat down with Laura Trump at the People's Convention this last weekend, and we talked about this.
And the top priorities are to get out the vote and to protect the ballot. Play cut four. Our top priorities at the RNC, we have two priorities. Get out the vote and protect the ballot. Charlie, let's face it. If we don't have free, fair and transparent elections, nothing else matters. And that is our goal at the RNC. And by the way, every single person in this country, regardless of how you vote, should want free votes.
And fair elections. We are also sending a loud and clear message out there to anyone who thinks about cheating in an election. If you cheat in an election, we will find you. We will track you down and we will prosecute you to the full extent of the law. And Trump is gaining in every category that Democrats used to enjoy. This is an amazing piece of tape here.
It's CNN where they say, I am speechless. I am speechless with how well Donald Trump is doing with black voters. I am speechless with how well that Donald Trump is doing with low prop voters. Play cut 75.
All right, so this is black voters, Biden versus Trump margin. Look at black voters age 50 and older. And you'll see, look, Joe Biden was leading amongst this group at this point by 83 points back in 2020. Now it's 74 points. So, yeah, a slight decline in that margin, but nothing out of this world. Look at black voters under the age of 50.
Holy cow, folks. Holy cow. Look at this. Joe Biden was up by 80 points among this group back at this point in 2020. Look at where that margin has careened down towards. It's now just get this 37 points. Speechless. I am speechless about how it is a historic performance. Potentially, this is matrix shaking data, seismic data. The populist revolution is unfolding.
and involves all of us. Let me just go through the gamification again. If you register 25 new voters, you get a signed copy of my new book, Right Wing Revolution. If you register 100 new voters, you get an invitation to be on our show right here and tell your story. 250 voters get flown to Phoenix out for a dinner.
And we'll have, it might be lunch. Dinner's tough with the family, but how about a meal? Let's change that. Get flown to Phoenix for a meal with us. And we'll show you around 30-point headquarters. We'll put you up in a hotel. It'll be great. That's it right there. 2,500, 250. This is the type of grittiness that is necessary. And by the way, our show will pay for it, just to be clear. Pay for the flight out here. We'll put you up in a hotel. Our show will pay for it.
So I don't want to spend too much time on this story. I really don't because I don't know the truth of the extent of it. But I was attacked and I was called an anti-Semite and I am resolutely pro-Israel for the record. I love Israel. I want them to win and finish the war. But I was smeared and slandered by many people as being called an anti-Semite and conspiracy theorist for what is now reported in the Jerusalem Post. The IDF knew of Hamas's plan to kidnap 250 before the October 7th attack.
The IDF had precise information about Hamas intentions, but due to prevailing conceptions in the security establishment, possibly negligence by officials, the warning signs were not acted on. I went on the Patrick Bet-David podcast. In fact, we can get that tape, Ryan. Can we get that tape, Ryan? Where I went on the Patrick Bet-David podcast back in October, and I did not know all the information, and I have been in Israel's corner and remained the entire time. And it said, I do not believe what we are being told. And I believe that they might've had a heads up. Was there a stand down order?
and I was attacked by every possible direction. But now, in this court in the Jerusalem Post, a newly surfaced document has revealed the IDF and intelligence systems have detailed the knowledge of Hamas's plan to raid Israel and kidnap before the October 7th massacre. The document was distributed a couple weeks prior, and they knew that an attack was coming.
Again, I don't want to spend too much time on this. And it's suspicious timing now that this story is coming out right as Israel is about to win the war. And they should win the war because we stand with Israel. But I'm doing this for my own sake to clear my name because I was so viciously attacked. I was smeared and slandered for a month. I was called an anti-Semite. And it's not an exaggeration. Washington Times, I could go through all the different publications that publish that nonsense.
There was a document titled "Detailed End-to-End Raid Training" was distributed on September 19, 2023 and described in detail the series of exercises conducted by Hamas elite units.
These exercise included raiding military posts and kibbutzim, collective communities in Israel, kidnapping soldiers and civilians, and maintaining the hostages once they were in the Gaza Strip. The report by Khan News stated, quote, security sources told Khan News that the document was known to intelligence leadership, at least in the Gaza division.
The Jerusalem Post reports that warning signs of the October 7th attack were not acted on. The IDF had precise information about Hamas's intentions, but due to prevailing conceptions within the security establishment and possible negligence by security officials, the warning signs were not acted upon.
The report further detailed that Israeli intelligence officials monitored the exercises and documented the steps Hamas planned to take after breaching Israeli territory and taking over military posts. The expected number of hostages, according to the document, was between 200 and 250 people. Quote, Israeli intelligence officials who monitored the exercise detailed and document all the steps that were taken. The expected number of hostages, 250 people.
So then the general staff investigation team is expected to present initial findings from the failure to the chief of staff in the coming weeks as the country seeks to understand how a lapse in security could occur despite having detailed advanced knowledge of the enemy's plans. So the Israeli government knew that the attack was going to happen. That is now what Jerusalem Post is saying. The IDF is very, very close to victory. So this timing of this story is quite interesting, probably from the liberal arm. So part of the government knew. The question is, was Bibi Netanyahu briefed on this? I don't know. I have no idea.
but it is something, it's really quite interesting. This is me on the Patrick Bet-David show. And I say this again, I want Israel to finish the war, to win the war, all in. But I said what I said, and what I said is true. And it is a learning lesson that when somebody says something that is rooted in shared experience, and he's also on your side, I was attacked by so many conservatives as being a conspiracy theorist, Alex Jones type, I don't even know what that means.
This was me on the Patrick Bet-David show. It was the number one most viral clip for almost three to four days straight. Play cut 101. How did these guys not know this was taking place? So I've been to Israel many times. The whole country is a fortress. When I first heard this story, I still had the same gut instinct that I did initially. I find this very hard to believe. I've been to that Gaza border. You cannot go 10 feet without running into a 19-year-old with an AR-15 or an automatic machine gun that's an IDF soldier.
The whole country is surveilled. So that was received very poorly when I said it. And I'm just reading from the Jerusalem Post. This is not some sort of fringe thing. Again, they are liberal. So they're doing this to undercut the Israeli war effort. And again, I just call balls and strikes. This is the Socratic method. We want to get towards the truth. By the way, since I love Israel, I want to get closer to the truth. But it's very, very logical to have an inquiry.
We don't know for a fact that there was a stand down order. We don't know that. But we did say that the country was a fortress. And I cannot repeat enough that how attacked I was. I want to say this again. This is the Jerusalem Post that they wrote here. Quote, the country seeks to understand how such a lapse in security could occur despite having detailed advanced knowledge of the enemy's plans. This was not a surprise attack. It wasn't.
That's what the Jerusalem Post is contending here, is that the parts of the Israeli government knew that this was going to happen. I don't know who, I certainly don't know why, and I don't want to speculate as to why, but October 7th has changed the Middle East permanently. It's changing parts of our country permanently.
This is very important that we find out what the heck happened leading up to. Who knew that this was going to happen? Why wasn't this shared? We need resignations at a minimum and maybe people go to jail for allowing this to happen.
And maybe does this go all the way up to the top government of Israel? I don't know. I certainly hope not. And I say that as somebody who is cheering for them to win the war. We should be pro-Israel. They are a beacon of civilization against mad man, modern day Nazis. We want accountability and we want the truth. And the truth, I don't know what that is, but according to new reports is this was not a sneak attack. It was not a surprise attack.
It was something that parts, at least of the Israeli government, knew was going to happen. The question is, did they let it happen? We have no evidence to suggest that, but we deserve an answer. 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.
