This is More Than Just a Presidential Election — Live at Save Big Sky with Tim Sheehy
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Hey everybody, Senator Charlie Kirk show my conversation with hopefully the next US Senator from Montana. Listen to this text to your friends. If you know anyone in Montana, send this to them and tell them they got a vote for Tim Sheehy. My conversation with Tim Sheehy, who we must defeat John Tester. We must take back the US Senate.

Tim Sheehy in Montana. Enjoy. Email us as always, freedom at charliekirk.com. Become a member today, members.charliekirk.com, members.charliekirk.com, and get involved with Turning Point USA at tpusa.com. Buckle up, everybody. Here we go. Charlie, what you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus. I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.

I want to thank Charlie. He's an incredible guy. His spirit, his love of this country. He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA. We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country. That's why we are here.

Thank you, everybody. Please take a seat. Who is ready to fire Jon Tester this November?

I'll tell you, you guys deserve a lot better than what you've been getting here. And it's very interesting. And of course, most importantly, who's ready to put Donald Trump back in the White House? That's...

And by the way, those two things are tied together. As we drive Trump turnout here in this state, it's harder and harder for Mr. Tester to hold on to the Senate seat. You know, I've been crisscrossing the country. I finally have my voice back, by the way. I lost my voice for an entire week. We did events in Pennsylvania, in Georgia, in Michigan, in Wisconsin, in Arizona. And I told our team, I said, we're going to Montana. They said, what's in Montana? I said, I'll tell you what's in Montana.

The future of the U.S. Senate is in Montana. That's what's in Montana. And I love this state and has the most amazing people. By the way, I'm told it's the most veterans per capita of any state in the country. Is that right? By the way, thank you for all of you who served our country. Give it up for them. All of you that served the country. Thank you so much.

You know, we are living through extraordinary times right now. And you can see here this packed room. I'll tell you, we would have even more people. But it's hard to build a crowd on a college campus at 3.30 in the afternoon. This is pretty amazing. We're visiting the country. When I go to Penn State University, we have 3,000 people that show up. Arizona State University, 2,000 people. And you can see it on the ground. In fact, you saw it today in what we had –

happening out there. Do you know that we registered 100 new voters for Donald Trump and Tim Sheehy today on campus, University of Montana? Isn't that great? 100 new voters, and many of whom are young men, and young men are the most conservative they have been in over 50 years right now. We're seeing it on the ground, and it makes sense.

As we travel the country, we are seeing in real time the country become more and more conservative. You see, in the last couple of years, we've seen the failures of open borders, of inflation. In order to buy a home in this country, and in Montana, by the way, you have the highest increases of home prices in the country, largely thanks to Mr. Tester. Largely thanks to what he's been doing and how he's been voting. He voted for the Inflation Explosion Act in Washington, D.C.,

In order to buy a home in this country, four years ago when Donald Trump was president, it required $75,000 a year to be able to buy a home. Now, upwards of $130,000 a year to be able to buy a home. The reason why we are packing out audiences like this and we're seeing young people move in the conservative direction in record ways is that this next generation is the first generation since George Washington to have it worse off than their parents.

Nobody in this room that is over the age of 40 can resonate with that. This generation is sicker, more depressed, anxious, suicidal, and poorer than previous generations. And they're looking at the millennials and they're looking at the liberalism that is being force-fed. They said no.

I want a country that is strong, that is proud, a country that has borders, a country that puts citizens above foreigners, a country that will employ young people above people coming in this country from distant and far off lands and say, no, we will not allow people in this country illegally when our own college graduates cannot afford homes in this country. We're not going to put up with it. And we are seeing this amazing unification happen in this country.

Who would have ever thought that in 2024, Donald Trump would be shot, try to be killed three times, and a Kennedy would be endorsing a Republican?

Look what's happening here. You see the media, they're not covering it, but there is a profound movement where we are rejecting the radical Democrats and their agenda. The former co-chair of the Democrat National Committee, Tulsi Gabbard, is all in on Donald Trump. The world's wealthiest man, Elon Musk, all in on our movement. Bobby Kennedy. You see, these are people that might disagree on certain political issues, but they agree on the big stuff.

We agree that free speech is a bedrock of this country. We agree that when decisions must be made, citizens must always be prioritized above citizens of another country. Very basic. We believe that if you do not have a border, you do not have a country. An open border is not a border. And how about this one? We believe that God created men and women and that men should stay out of female sports.

These are things that we can agree on. And regardless of certain previous political differences, we are seeing that the Democrat Party is the party of censorship. They are the party of mass migration. They are the party of big government spending and inflation.

And you do not have a country if you simultaneously have to survive mass migration and inflation. By the way, since we have inflation, doesn't that make sense that we should slow the curb of people coming into this country? Wouldn't it be rational that we should say that we're going to slow down the amount of people coming in? And every single state is a border state. I want you to think about someone that you know in your community, maybe a loved one that overdosed on fentanyl.

I want you to think about someone here in this state that was impacted by the drug trade coming into Montana. That right there is because of Kamala Harris's inability to secure the southern border. And we're going to fire her and Jon Tester in November to secure the southern border once and for all. And this is even bigger than that. We are in this for our children. I am a father of two, two kids under two. The most important thing in the world is being able to raise kids in a country and a stable country.

Do you know that there's over 320,000 missing kids under Kamala Harris coming across the southern border? 320,000 kids, many of whom are being sold into sex slavery and labor slaves. You don't hear the media talking about that. You see, the media, they will not mention that according to the Department of Homeland Security, over 13,000 of the people that have come into this country were convicted of murder in the country they fled from. Did you see that report last week?

13,000 of the people that came into this country illegally were convicted by a jury of their peers of murder in Venezuela, in El Salvador. 15,000 of them convicted of a jury of their peers of rape.

425,000 of them have prior criminal convictions and hundreds of them are on the terror watch list. You would only do this if you want to see the destruction and the deterioration of the country that we love. But here's the good news, everybody. And you're seeing this in Montana. We are being outspent 100%. How many ads have you see for tester? It's unbelievable, right? Let me tell you why. Because tester is perfect for California liberals.

California liberals have a lot of money, but some of them live here. Unfortunately, too many are coming to Montana. Am I right? Too many are coming in. But they have a perfect puppet in John Tester. He will do whatever they want. Vote for bigger spending. Refuse to close the southern border. Never try to balance the budget. You see, John Tester does the bidding of New York and California liberals and pretends to be one of you in these beautifully curated television advertisements.

You see, this is the last stand. This is the last stand for people that pretend that they can game you. And it's an insult to all of you. You go to D.C., he's all chummy on these committees that are doing these radical policies, chummy with all of them in the inside of Washington, D.C. Instead, we have an opportunity to send a Navy SEAL, someone who is a job creator and a true conservative, the U.S. Senate, and his name is Tim Sheehy, and we need to rise up in huge numbers...

and tell the people of Montana about this. You see, I'm going to welcome them out here in just a second. This will only happen if every single one of you get to work and you're able to cut through the television propaganda. You need to tell your family and friends, first and foremost, you vote the entire ballot, right? It's not just president. You vote the entire ballot. And as you work down, you need to make sure that Donald Trump has a unified government to work with.

You know, day one, if they control the U.S. Senate or the U.S. House, they will impeach Donald Trump for breathing. I guarantee it. They will impeach him. Also, how are we going to get good Supreme Court justices? Supreme Court justices that support our Second Amendment rights and religious liberty. And Supreme Court justices that will say, you are not allowed to put a mask on my child in middle school. Thank you very much. Those are the justices that we want. You see...

Today, Senate Democrats, did you see this? They introduced a bill to expand the Supreme Court.

That's who John Tester represents. They want to pack the court and expand the court to try to take away your God-given liberties and freedoms. I trust the people of Montana. Many of you have served in this country. You are decent, God-fearing people. You love this country. You understand what is happening right now and that we're losing it to a small, unelected oligarchy that is constantly coming after our core, cherished values and freedoms.

And I know that when all the chips are down, I know you'll vote for Donald Trump. I'm not worried about that one. But I also know that you guys are going to send a message to the rest of the country. And also, God forbid, Donald Trump doesn't win the White House.

We better make sure that Kamala Harris does not have a unified government if, God forbid, she becomes president. So not only are you guys important for the future of the Senate, but you could be an insurance policy to prevent her from getting rid of the filibuster and giving amnesty to 20 million illegals.

And they would give them all voting rights, and that would be the end of the country as we know it. However, there's something that stands in the way. And who stands in the way is a great man, loves the country, family man, someone that he needs your help and support. Join me in welcoming the next U.S. Senator from Montana, Tim Sheehy, everybody. So I was told that we weren't going to draw much of a crowd in Missoula. This is pretty good. Yeah, well, it's a beautiful fall day. Thanks for spending your time with us.

So, Tim, you had an opportunity to run a business during both Trump and under the current Harris regime. What do you see as the big difference between the two attitudes, between business and entrepreneurship, comparing and contrasting the two administrations?

Well, it's a great question because when you think about what the magic of America has always been, you know, it's not our government. It's not our military even. What set America apart from the very beginning is we were the first nation to be founded around the idea, the concept that the potential of every individual is unique. And every individual has a very unique mind, spirit, heart, and trajectory in life.

And our founding documents were written around protecting the potential of every single individual. We're the first country ever founded on the concept that every individual has a unique future, and we're going to try to unleash that future and allow them to reach the greatest potential ever. We're the first country that's ever done that. And that's why we've been the strongest country in the history of the world in a very short period of time. And how is that excellence expressed?

Business. I mean, it just is. We're the first country that really was founded as an entrepreneurial republic. We were a mercantile republic when we were founded and still largely are today.

And so it's so important for our government to ensure that we don't snuff that out. Because when you look at countries that have done that, you know, the results are disastrous. The innovation leaves, the brain drain. I mean, Iran's a perfect example. I mean, Iran was a pretty impressive economy. Now, yes, they had some, you know, monarchy issues. And I mean, there are details I'm not going to gloss over. But now you look at the brain drain from Iran. So many amazingly smart people fled Iran, right?

since the rise of the Ayatollah and their radical regime now. And we've been the beneficiary of that. They've come here. They've come to somewhere that's fertile ground for entrepreneurship, and we've benefited from that. But these last four years, especially during COVID, you saw what the heavy hand of an unaccountable bureaucracy can do, not just to businesses, but to families, to schools. They'll decide whether your job's essential or not, whether you can have a job.

And, you know, I'm really disappointed that a lot of folks have started to forget quickly the pains of what happened during COVID about the greatest constitutional, you know, trampling of our rights in the history of this country. And, you know, we can't forget that that happened because that basically is a preview of what the Democrats want America to look like, which is we're going to decide where you eat, when you eat, whether you go to school, whether you don't go to school, what you learn, what you put in your body. And oh, by the way, whether your job matters or not, or whether your business matters or not.

So, you know, what we saw during the Trump years as a business owner was growth. I mean, what you saw was a government that wanted you to succeed.

And what we've seen here in these past three and a half years was just a massive wind shift to empowering bureaucrats, unaccountable bureaucrats, unelected bureaucrats, that they want to make the decisions of what's best for you and your business and your family. And that's been the most insidious, I think, change we've seen is the growth and empowerment of an unaccountable bureaucracy because that's very unconstitutional. Our Constitution did not imagine that.

executive branch this overreaching and this aggressive in going after its own citizens. So it's important we get back to a pro-business set of policies. It's more than just taxes. It's also just recognizing that businesses are the heart of the American spirit, and we've got to unleash them. We've got to support them. We want them to succeed. And all you hear from Biden and Harris is...

You know, all you hear about is USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA. Give it up for them. They did a good job getting them out of there. Give it up for them. Missoula is going to Missoula. Now watch this. I'll write the headline here.

Over a thousand people gather. Two maniacs scream something. The front page of the newspaper will say, mass protest. That's how dishonest these people are. I'm telling you, right? Sheehy met with protests. Meanwhile, over a thousand people in Missoula are gathering. I'm sorry, Tim. I didn't plan for that, but they did warn me about Missoula. So, Tim...

You served in Afghanistan, and if I could speak candidly, the withdrawal from Afghanistan that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris oversaw was one of the most humiliating chapters in American history. Watching what happened in Afghanistan was disgusting and should never happen again, and Joe Biden should have resigned in disgrace after what happened when those 13 Marines were killed. Talk about your perspective and how your fellow veterans reacted to that, that dark day in American history.

Well, what you obviously know, thank you for saying that. You're absolutely right. You know, we're spending like two and a half times more money per head on illegal immigrants right now than we are on our veterans, you know. We've got homeless veterans in the street, but illegals get free housing, right? But back to your point, I mean, that's exactly why I'm here. I mean, I've never run for student council before. I've never run for Congress or city commission. I'm a first-time candidate, and it was Afghanistan that got me into politics. You may not know, my wife was also a Marine, also a veteran of Afghanistan. Thank you.

And interesting fact, as a result of both of us deploying at the same time, multiple times, you know, we saw each other about 45 days spread across six years or so, which is the secret to a happy marriage, right? It's never... No, I'm lucky she's still with me. But the... I'm a mail-order husband, literally. I'm a mail-order husband. So she was in Afghanistan, I was in another country. We were trying to get married. We couldn't physically get co-located, so she found that there's a state...

that you could get married via double proxy. Anybody know what state that is? That's right. It's an old law. It's the only state. It's the old law left over from the gold mining days, the frontier days, when they were trying to encourage settlement in the Homesteading Act because, you know, the territories were competing to be states, so they were trying to encourage people to come. And this old law was on the books, and she found it, and we notarized a couple of forms, mailed them in to Kalispell Courthouse up in Flathead County, and about 11 days later, we get them back, and, hey, we're married. So a very romantic wedding. We weren't even there.

But, you know, I tell that story because, you know, our 20s were characterized by our nation's longest war. And, you know, a lot of folks, nothing wrong with this, the ski bumming or surf bumming, and that's great. But my wife and I and almost all of our close friends, we spent our 20s going mud hut to mud hut, ridgeline to ridgeline, fighting our nation's longest war. And when you come back from that, it changes you. War changes you.

But when I watched those bodies falling from the C-17s, when that was going on, I was flying water bombers out in Chico, California. So I was operating by day out of Chico, California, water bombing fires by night. I was on my phone talking to former interpreters, pilots, commandos, folks that have volunteered to fight alongside us that knew they were now marked for death by the Taliban.

You know, and these friends back here, they're just calling me a racist. It's like, you know what? I fought alongside Muslims, Jews, Hindus, you know, like every possible race you could imagine. You know, I was in foxholes with them, in gunfights with them. We were covered, you know, in the same mud in the same spots.

And I was on the phone with my interpreter trying to get him and his young children out of Afghanistan before they were murdered by the Taliban. And I'll never forget him being on the other side of the phone begging me to get his kids out. He's like, fine, just leave me, but get my children out of here before they get their heads cut off, before the Taliban burns us alive in the street. And our government left them behind and left over 800 American citizens behind and $80 billion of equipment behind to

And nobody's been held accountable to this day. No generals got fired. No secretaries got drug in. Nobody got impeached. Nothing. I mean, they impeached Trump over a phone call with, you know, a Ukrainian president. Meanwhile, like Biden collapses a whole country that we spent 20 years fighting and nothing happens. And here's a really scary thing for you. We just talked about the bureaucracy of the American government, how it's unaccountable and ineffectual. The Russians invaded Afghanistan and they were there for about nine and a half years.

When they left Afghanistan, which, of course, was a huge focus of, you know, we didn't go to the Olympics because they had invaded Afghanistan. When they left, the government that the Russians built lasted for about three years before it collapsed. We were there for 20 years, and the government that we built lasted less than a day.

So if that doesn't scare you about how incompetent our own governments become, that they can't solve any problems, whether it's our border, whether it's health care, whether it's our budget, or whether it's a foreign war we spent 20 years fighting, I don't know what will scare you. So when I saw that happen, I got involved in politics. And not as a candidate, but just...

You know, as an organizer, as a speaker, and Ryan Zinke, our Western congressman, had pinned my purple heart on me back when I was a SEAL. He was also a SEAL, so I'd known him for years. And I told him, hey, I said, listen, I've got a personal vendetta against this administration. I'm pissed off, and I want to get involved. Let me help out. I'll host fundraisers. I'll be a surrogate speaker. You tell me how, but put me in. We've got to save this country. We've got to take this country back, and I want to be a part of the solution. And...

About a year and a half after that conversation, a few folks pulled me aside and said, hey, you said whatever you can do with the party. We got a great idea for you. And here we are. But yeah, that event was just a turning point for me personally, for my wife, for so many of us in service. You know, we spent our own money and our own time getting hundreds of families out of that country. A lot of money. And this administration tried to

They went after us. They went after a lot of these veteran groups saying, hey, you're illegally transferring money. You're chartering flights into these sketchy countries, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan. You know, stop doing what you're doing. Get out of the way. And we're like, hey, we're cleaning up your mess. You should be thanking us. You know, you walked away and left this mess. And we're not going to leave our friends behind. We're not going to leave those people there. Maybe you did, but we're not. The least you can do is get the hell out of our way and stop threatening us. And they wouldn't even do that. And I think for a whole generation of veterans, how many are vets in here?

Thank you for your service. Thanks for coming. But your job is not over yet. Your job's not over yet. And I know the burden is heavy, and I know you did your time in your home, but people will look to you for guidance and leadership. Whether you like it or not, 1.5% of Americans served. 11% of Montanans served. People...

Value your opinion. If you wore the uniform and you have an opinion on a matter, people listen. A lot of times they'll tell everyone else to shut up, but if you say, hey, I'm a combat veteran, I serve here, and you start talking about an issue, they will stop talking and they'll listen to you. So you have a really important responsibility these next 35 days because we have to save this country on and before November 5th, and you guys are going to be a huge part of that. Get out there. Be involved. I know you've already served your country, but serve it again like I am because we've got to save this country.

I want you guys to think about that for a second. $80 billion of equipment we left behind. You know that they're parading it in front of us now.

They are proudly saying, look at all this equipment that we pay for that we left behind. And secondly, these interpreters that we just abandoned were the greatest friends and were almost co-soldiers. Is that fair to say, Tim? Not almost. 100% were. I mean, I had several interpreters, but my closest one, I did several deployments all over the world, but my closest one who him and I were in so much

together. You know, I personally saw him run across, you know, an open alley in gunfire, grabbing an American soldier and pulling him after he'd been hit. They fought alongside us every step of the way. And the mission we had was so important to have an interpreter because it's not just, you know, you don't just Google translate what you're saying, you know. If you're interrogating somebody,

which is a lot of what we were doing. Or if you're talking to some locals trying to, you know, they're going to be very hesitant about telling you whether the Taliban or Al-Qaeda or the Haqqani Network are using their villages as a stopover point and whether the rat lines for the smugglers are nearby.

So it takes more than just language translation. It takes body language. It takes cultural transformation. And then you may ask a question and they may know what you're trying to ask and change it to be asked the right way to somebody else. So they become more than just co-soldiers. They become partners with you. They become very, very close friends. I mean, him and I would sit there hours, hours, days on end in the mountains. And I remember showing him a magazine I had with me and it had an astronaut on one of the pages.

And you have to remember that Afghanistan in many parts is still like 3rd century BC. And it totally blew his mind that, first of all, outer space was a thing, but then that America would send people into outer space. And walking him through that process...

You know, I'll never forget the conversation I had with him about it. And yes, he learned from me. I also learned a tremendous amount from him, you know, because it's a totally different lifestyle. Living in the mountains of Afghanistan is a different world that they live in, literally. And we have a lot to learn from them as well. So the U.S. dollar and our global hegemony is built on the U.S. military as it should be, which is the finest fighting force ever assembled in

What is the current state of our military under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris? I'm far from an expert, but I hear from a lot of people it's not where it should be. What is your thoughts on that? Yeah, I mean, there's no question. We are seeing record levels of non-readiness in our military. Our air wings...

We literally have guys in our squadrons. I won't name names because, you know, I'm always being recorded by some sort of like, you know, liberal tracker. And they'll take someone's name I mentioned. So I won't mention the guy's name, but he's a close friend. And he still works active duty military and is responsible for aircraft maintenance. And they will go out. If you've ever been to a military base, you'll see aircraft parked by the gate basically as props.

They'll still go out to some of those aircraft and take parts off of them. You know, planes that have been sitting out in the rain and the dust and the wind for years because they have to keep the aircraft running. You know, continuing resolutions. We haven't passed a proper military defense budget since, like, I was in high school, right?

And yet we continually kick the can on defense spending. And the truth is the DOD doesn't need more money. The DOD needs an innovation enema. Like the bureaucracy in that organization is so thick and it's terrible. And so much money is soaked up in these layers of bureaucratic sclerosis that

and innovation doesn't happen. NASA's a perfect example, yes it's not military, but this is a great example of when you have a government run bureaucratic rule by committee organization that if you saw couldn't even send a capsule to lower Thorban and back a few weeks ago with a Boeing Starliner. And they've been developing the SLS program for like two decades.

Meanwhile, you have Elon Musk and his organization, SpaceX, which are commercially driven. Yes, the taxpayer pays the bill, but they're developing products to a standard for excellence and their standard is excellence.

And they're pioneering space travel the likes of which we never really thought we'd see. So we are seeing record levels of low recruitment. We're seeing record levels of our ships are not ready. Right now, the Navy's contingency plan to build ships. Anybody know where they plan to build them if we need a lot of ships to fight China? Anybody know? South Korea, which is great. South Korea is a great ally, and they have tremendous shipbuilding expertise. But if we're to war with China, what do you think it is we're fighting over?

Control the Pacific Ocean. So we're going to build ships on the other side of the ocean that we're fighting for control over? We can't build airplanes fast enough. And the Ukraine war, you look at the attrition portion of that. One of the theses for us supporting the military aid to Ukraine is that we're going to attrite Russia. Well, Russia makes bullets, bombs, and artillery shells like 10 times faster than we do at like 15% the cost. So who's attriting whom?

So we have serious problems in our defense industrial base. We absolutely have to re-energize that. We've got to work on deconsolidating it. We have so many, you know, just massive companies that control so much of that space. Return innovation and free market principles to it. Most importantly, return the number one priority in the military should be combat lethality. That's it. Be able to close with and kill the enemy. All this other DEI, ESG, you know, equality stuff.

Listen, you know, sure, my wife is a Marine, female Marine, so it's not like I'm against women in the military. She's a total stud. But she'll be the first one to say, I don't want to be given a free pass because I'm a woman. I want to earn my spot in the Corps just like she did. And that's the standard we ought to have. So in order for Jon Tester to win, he needs to try to get one out of three Trump voters.

And so Trump is going to win this state handedly, maybe by 15, 20, 25 points, maybe even 30 points. Who knows? Why is it important for Trump to have a U.S. Senate that is Republican for him to work with? And also, I want you guys to listen carefully to tell everybody in your life that is voting for Trump and is not sure yet on the U.S. Senate pick. Tim, please.

So today already now, this is the most expensive election in American history ever per vote, the Sheehy-Tester election, which is crazy to think about, you know, in a state of million-ish people with probably 575,000 voter turnout. But it's because the stakes are high. And like Charlie pointed out, if Trump wins and he doesn't control the Senate, you can assume that he'll be impeached on day one.

And if he wins and does have the Senate, he can get things done like appoint Supreme Court justices. Keep in mind, the two oldest justices on the court are conservative judges. So the next president has a very likely opportunity to appoint two more judges. Cabinet nominees, as we talked about earlier, our executive branch of government has more authority over your life, your business, your dollar, your family than ever before in the history of this country.

The cabinet nominees appointed by the president have tremendous power over you, your families in this country. Those are appointed by the president and they're approved by the Senate. So the Senate is critical for Trump to have. If he doesn't win, the Senate is the firewall against more progressive lunacy. It is the firewall to make sure we don't expand the court, add two more states, open the border more, print another $8 trillion, whatever, what have you. The Senate is the firewall. What you can do

Talk to folks. If Trump's leading the state by about 20 points, which he is, and I'm running basically even with Tester, maybe a few point lead, that means a lot of people are going to vote for Trump and vote for Tester, which I can't blame them because they're inundated with $150 million of ads that are telling them John Tester is basically a Republican. And John Tester loves working with Donald Trump. And John Tester is going to secure the border, even though he hasn't. And he's going to protect your guns, even though he's got enough from the NRA. And, you know,

What they'll leave out is John Tester voted to impeach Donald Trump twice. Not once, but twice. He voted against all of his Supreme Court nominees. He, even on CNN, said, hey, we should punch Trump in the face, you know? I mean, he was a party line, complete supporter of Chuck Schumer, Biden, Harris agenda. He was part of the resistance when Trump was in office, and as soon as he was out, he was part of the deconstruction of the America First agenda. So if you know those people that are buying the whole, you know,

Republicans for Tester, Tester's basically a Republican message. Don't be mean to them. Buy them a cup of coffee, sit down with them, buy them a beer, and just be like, hey, do you realize that Tester voted to impeach Trump twice?

Voted against all of his cabinet nominees, his Supreme Court nominees, went against his agenda every step of the way. How can you vote for both of those people? How can you consistently vote for those? Because if you're voting for Tester, you better be voting for Kamala Harris. It's great. It's not a town hall. Thank you for your opinion. So, Tim, one of the things that Kamala Harris – So here's a guy that's short-selling the stock of my company. He's decided to go after my company as a liberal operative.

And he's been short selling the stock of our company trying to put us out of business. The truth is he's a liar. He gets paid to lie and that's what he does. Yeah. I want to tell you guys something. The fact you guys feel the energy around this race. We better win this Senate race. Everybody, the energy around this race. I'm telling you.

That should fire you up even more. They are desperate that they're going to lose the U.S. Senate and that this state will be red for a generation. These are desperate measures. People who are confident don't act this way. So it's good to know who that guy was. So that guy has been shorting the stock of our company intentionally to try to put us out of business.

He's buddies with Elizabeth Warren and Chuck Schumer, and the Democrats got him to try to drive our company out of business just to make us look bad. That's it. That's the only reason. You can see he's a radical. He comes here today and does that. So he's been leading an effort to try to put hundreds of Montana employees out of business. And guess what? We fight wildfires for a living. We're not making, like, dating pants, dating apps and yoga pants. Like, we fight wildfires. And that guy wants our company out of business. By the way...

Could you imagine Republicans organizing to short-sell a stock of a Senate candidate? I mean, they're very cruel, trying to destroy Montana jobs. Just how mean and how awful that is. Speaking of radical measures, Kamala Harris has now said she wants to get rid of the filibuster.

Tester, from my understanding, has endorsed eliminating the filibuster in the past. Please educate the audience on the importance of it. It's a little bit wonky, but it really is civilizational altering stuff. No, thanks for bringing that up because it is incredibly important. The filibuster in the Senate is a 60-vote threshold to pass legislation.

And it's that way for a reason. If you look at democracies and republics and parliamentary governments around the world, we're obviously a constitutional republic in America. Yes, we're democratically elected, but we are a constitutional republic. And that's a different structure than a pure democracy. And that gets lost in translation far too much. Yes, you should clap for that.

And what really sets our constitutional republic aside from everything else in the world is the American Senate. If you look at how our founders framed our country, the Senate is really the most unique. Lots of countries have supreme courts. Lots of them have House of Commons and prime ministers and presidents. The American Senate and how it's structured is specifically built to be a firewall, a firewall against radical change of any kind, either direction.

And it's really meant to be deliberative, steady, and glacial. A lot of people hate the Senate because they say it doesn't get anything done. It's almost exactly what it's meant to do, is not get anything done. It's almost meant to be there and say, yeah, we're supposed to be the rock that radical progress smashes itself upon to ensure that constitutional intent is still present. So the filibuster is the 60-volt threshold to ensure legislation gets through and truly has a strong voice. And for a state like Montana...

With, you know, now we just crossed the million resident mark here recently for a state like Montana, the Senate is our most potent expression of political power in the nation because we only get now we have two congressional representatives. We don't have a whole lot of say in who becomes president, but we have just as much say in the U.S. Senate as New York, California and Florida.

That's the great equalizer. And the framers built it that way for a very specific reason, because they said, we're going to make sure rural states with not very many people have just as much say in the Senate as everyone else. And that's very important. So back to the filibuster.

The move from the left to eliminate the filibuster is very simple. They're frustrated that, you know, their criticism of our Constitution, their criticism of how our nation's structured, they want that to go away. They want to fundamentally alter the nation. And the Senate...

is what's going to stop that. So they want to get rid of the filibuster so that they can push through any legislation they want. And there's a couple ways they want to do that. One way is just vote to eliminate it, which Harry Reid did many years ago with the nuclear option for certain nominees. And then what they want to do is add two more states, D.C. and Puerto Rico. That's four more Democrat senators inserted into the Senate. That basically builds an almost quasi-permanent majority for the foreseeable future.

Then they want to move right to the court and pack the Supreme Court. So the filibuster is really a critical step that ensures our constitutional republic will continue to function the way that it is. And that's at stake right now because Kamala wants to get rid of it. Biden wants to get rid of it. Tester and Schumer have already said Adam Schiff, who will be the next senator from California, most likely. I hope Steve Garvey pulls it out. But just the way the polls look, it's unlikely. And plus, it's California. He wants to get rid of the filibuster.

So the first thing they'll do is try and get rid of it. And guess what can stop that? You can. Montana can stop it. Because if we take the Senate, they can't push it through. So I have to get Tim to his debate tonight with Tester. You guys know that. He's debating Tester tonight. Yes.

So two things. I want to talk about the border and then early voting. One, two. I want to get a one-two combo here. Every state's a border state. So quickly, it's my number one issue. My number one issue is that we are being invaded on the southern border and our leaders do not care. That is a breakdown of the social contract of why we have politicians. Politicians that don't secure a nation's border should be fired. Every state is a border state. Tell us how it impacts Montana.

It impacts everybody. Right now, especially, unfortunately, our tribal members stood up earlier and decided to toe the party line that they've been told to by somebody. Our reservations are getting devastated by fentanyl influx onto the reservations. I mean, devastated. And we don't have enough law enforcement officers on the reservations to provide a basic level of public safety. And they're using, many times they're using our reservations as jumping off points to supply other areas around the country.

And I've talked to folks at Haver even. You know, Haver's a nice old railroad town. And they're like, man, like...

Our cars are getting broken into. Our homes are getting broken into now. And it's all drug-related. So whether it's overdoses or whether it's just criminal activity that's a second- or third-order effect of the drug trade, the worst thing we're seeing is human trafficking increases, like 230% increase in human trafficking along our interstate corridors in Montana. That's disgusting. No other way to say it other than disgusting. And it's come directly as a result of our open southern border. So you're absolutely right. The number one priority our elected officials have is to keep us safe.

And they have failed at that just incredibly these past three and a half years. And the border ties right into it. So that'll be my number one priority when elected. We've got to seal it up tomorrow. There's no reason why it shouldn't be shut down. We know how to do it. We have the resources to do it. We've got to get it done. Absolutely. And...

This shows you the fraud that Jon Tester is. Tester could have said, I will not vote for any of your major spending bills until we secure the border. He has that power. If he plus one or two other senators would have done that as Democrats, but he didn't do that. Because Tester just turned a blind eye to this southern border crisis.

And talk's a good game. Okay, in closing here, Tim, this is very important. At Turning Point Action, we are doing the largest ever early vote turnout operation in Arizona, Wisconsin called Chase the Vote to chase every Trump vote to maximize turnout in what is now voting month.

I know many of you guys like to vote on Election Day. I guess that's fine. But guess what? There might be a snowstorm. You might have flooding like North Carolina. Be careful if you think everything's going to be perfect on Election Day. I could tell you in the Cary Lake governor's race in Arizona, half of our machine tabulators failed on Election Day, disenfranchising 100,000 voters. I'm a big believer if you don't like two and a half hour waiting lines and you don't like chaos, voting early in person is a great option that must be embraced and entertained by our base.

So, Tim, what are your thoughts on this? Because here's my final perspective. Our voters are so excited. Shouldn't we give them more days, not less days to go vote? Your thoughts, Tim. 100%. Listen, I mean, in a perfect world, which we don't live in and never will, in a perfect world, voter ID, same day, in-person voting. Yes. Okay? No question. I also want a hoverboard and a DeLorean, okay? But, you know...

Not going to happen. So the world we live in is here in Montana, you can vote early. You can vote via mail. You can vote absentee. You can harvest ballots. Those are legal. Okay. So in Montana, we have all these different ways to vote. Lots of different ways to vote in Montana. Okay. So use them, use them. I mean, if the speed limit is 60 and we drive 40 and the other side drives 60, guess what? We're going to lose.

We are. So vote early. October 7th, you can start in-person early voting. I believe it's 7th. You know, MTGOP website, they're rolling out a great, you know, grassroots voter information campaign. Mail-in ballots go out October 11th. Vote. Please vote. Everyone has to vote. Like Charlie said, probably the best example of kind of an election fumbled by us was Nevada in 2022. You know, Laxalt was going to win the Nevada Senate seat, and that would have saved us from the last two years of lunacy.

Anybody know what happened election night 2022 in Nevada? Blizzard. The biggest blizzard in like literally like 30 years. I mean, it was the one where that Jeremy Renner, the Marvel guy or whatever, flipped his snowcat over and hurt himself. You know, it was that mega storm.

And that storm, I mean, literally, you couldn't get anywhere. You couldn't move. You couldn't get to the polls. And as a result, that state party had said for months leading up, we don't trust the election. We're only going to vote in person. So don't mail your in-vowels. Don't vote early. Only vote in person.

And that's what happened. All right. We don't know what's going to happen November 5th, November 4th here in Montana. So vote early. Chrissy Jacobson, our secretary of state, is doing a fantastic job. She has she has totally locked this election down. I have full faith that your ballots are going to be counted, whether they're mailed in or early. Have faith. I think this Montana election is going to be the securest one we've ever seen. And we've got so many grassroots groups out there that are doing great.

They're just doing the Lord's work door-to-door-to-door. I mean, young Republicans, Americans for Prosperity, AFP, led by, you know, Jesse and Henry Kriegel, done an amazing job going door-to-door in this election, informing people not just about the issues, but about what I just said, about how to vote. So those groups, we knew we were going to outspend on the air from day one, so that grassroots, in-person, handshake, door-knocker approach has been absolutely critical. And if we win November 5th, it'll be because of those grassroots efforts. But we're only going to win if you invest...

We're only going to win if you vote. If we vote, we win. It's that simple. Turnout helps us. So make sure you vote, your family vote, and your friends vote. America's on the ballot. November 5th, we've got to save this country. Thank you. Everybody, tell your friends, chase ballots, and give it up for the next senator from Montana, Tim Chibie. 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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