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DSA's Destruction Plan + The 2028 Horserace Explained

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DSA's Destruction Plan + The 2028 Horserace Explained

The transcript, hosted by a speaker on the Charlie Kirk Show, centers on opposing the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and their radical agenda, which includes abolishing the Senate, ICE, prisons, and borders, as well as defunding the Pentagon. Marco Rubio’s speech is highlighted, describing radical leftism as a resentment-driven hatred of civilization that seeks to destroy rather than build. The DSA co-chairs confirm these positions, portraying them as mainstream within the Democratic Party, which the speaker argues threatens American values and freedoms. Socialism is criticized for promising security in exchange for individual freedoms, leading to a loss of choice and a “flattening” of society, as seen in countries like Cuba. The transcript also notes AOC leading in New Hampshire primary polls, signaling a shift toward far-left politics. The Democratic National Committee’s decision to start the primary in South Carolina is analyzed as a move to prioritize diversity but risks unpredictability and racial tribalization. The speaker frames the political landscape as a choice between reform (represented by MAGA) and revolution (far-left ideologies), with urgency driven by crises like affordability and housing. Charlie Kirk’s call to action encourages activism, early marriage, and religious faith to counter these trends.

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Fighting Evil, Proclaiming Truth, and DSA's Radical Agenda My name is Charlie Kirk. I run the largest pro American student organization in the country fighting for the future of our Republic. My call is to fight evil and to proclaim truth. If the most important thing for you is just feeling good, you're going to end up miserable. But if the most important thing is doing good, you'll end up purposeful. College is a scam everybody. You got to stop sending your kids to college. You should get married as young as possible and have as many kids as possible. Go start a turning point you would say college chapter. Go start a turning point, you would say high school chapter. Go find out how your church can get involved. Sign up and become an activist. I gave my life to the Lord in fifth grade, the most important decision I ever made in my life, and I encourage you to do the same. Here I am, Lord, use me. Buckle up, everybody. Here we. Speaker 2 Go. Speaker 3 All right, welcome everybody to the Charlie Kirk Show. It is July 27th, 2026. Honored to be with you all. Blake is on assignment today, so I'm going to be holding it down solo, excited to be with everybody at the Y Refi Studios Remote edition, of course. And Blake does not get to steal my mic flag today, which I'm very excited about. Nevertheless, he'll be back, I believe, on Wednesday. So today and tomorrow, it'll just be me. We have a great show in store for you. We got Mark Halperin on at 12:30 Eastern. We're going to be talking about the primary schedule for the Democrats, what it reveals. We're going to be talking about JD Vance in the proxy war that seems to be emerging around his potential candidacy. And in 2028. Then we've got Jay Feely, who is running for Congress, and he just won his primary out of CD1 in Arizona. He's a great, great candidate. Excited to get behind him all the way. And then we've got Rich Barris, pollster extraordinaire, to finish this out at 1:30. Some headwinds we got to deal with and see what we can do to fix them in ahead of November. So that's a big start. Rubio Explains Marxism's Hatred for Civilization I want to begin the show, however, talking about DSA. There was some revealing clips that came out over the weekend of the people that run the Democrat Socialist of America party platform and what they actually believe. And I want to explain where this is coming from. And there's a clip that we never played on the show from Secretary Marco Rubio that I think is just so prescient. It is so important that you really internalize what he's saying in this clip, because I think it's fundamentally accurate. Now, Marco, of course, you know, without weighing into the horse race on the Republican side ahead of 2028, Marco is one of the most eloquent communicators when it comes to the issue of socialism and Marxism. Part of that obviously comes from his background, his proximity to Cuba, his own Cuban heritage, and understanding that dynamic extraordinarily well. It's not been something that snuck up on Marco Rubio. He's been thinking deeply about this problem and what he has perceived as the rise of this ideology in the United States for a long time, and therefore, he is a great tip of the spear when it comes to countering it. So this was a speech that Secretary Rubio gave on July 15th. Again, we didn't play the clip then it it bears repeating, though, that this is one of the most eloquent, eloquent defenses of the capitalist system of the American way and against Marxism and socialism. So let's play the clip. SOP 14. Speaker 4 This is a distinctive and unique evil. It has always been driven by a hatred above all else, a hatred for civilization itself. It is a revolt of the worst against the best, a revolt of the weak and the cowardly against the strong and the good. It is perpetrated by those who cannot build, who cannot create, who cannot achieve great things and take their revenge upon the world for their own inadequacy by seeking to destroy those who can. This is what radical leftism is. It may wear various different slogans and ideologies across place and time, but the fundamental character is always the same. It's always the same. It is a poisonous resentment cloaked in the language of equality and justice and liberation and overwhelming need to tear down what greater men have built. Speaker 3 A poisonous resentment. And that's exactly right. And it is a flattening of everything. He's he goes on in this speech to say that it makes everything low and Gray. You lose every exceptional characteristic of the human soul. And ultimately, that is what has made America so powerful, so amazing, so exceptional, so rich, so innovative, so pioneering. And the DSA, this rise that you're seeing now that we we hear that over a majority of Democrats have a favorable view of socialism in this country. We must address it. Abolishing Institutions: DSA's Vision for America And this was just from this weekend. DSA Co Chair Megan Romer confirms that their party platform includes a host of terrifying planks. It is a terrifying potential reality that we must take seriously. SOT 7. Speaker 5 So we're going to put up on the screen a few of the things that are. Speaker 2 Part of your platform and I want to ask you just give me sort of a true or false on these abolish the Senate. Speaker 3 True. Speaker 2 OK, replace the presidency and Supreme Court as we now know them. Speaker 6 Yep, abolish ICE. Speaker 2 Absolutely abolish borders and give amnesty to anyone currently in the US illegally as a long term plan. Yep. Defund the Pentagon. Absolutely. Abolish prisons, at least in large part. Yeah, again, that as part of a long term program. Yeah. OK, so no prisons, government or public ownership of most large corporations? Speaker 3 Yeah, absolutely. They want to abolish prisons, defund the Pentagon, abolish ICE, destroy the Senate. Their vision for America, their idea what to do with it is simply to destroy it. Whatever ideology that is undergirding their entire policy platform is exactly what Secretary Rubio articulated just moments ago is poisonous resentment. Mast is virtuism. It is a terrifying potentiality for this country. And it's not just her. She's not just some exception to the rule. No, she is articulating what they believe. I have proof there's another DSA Co chair Ashik Sadiq, quite the name that basically says yeah, this is exactly what we believe. She's not the outlier here. What you just heard. This is mainstream within the DSA, which is now becoming mainstream within the Democrat party SOT 5. Speaker 5 We just don't see the point of the Senate. Historically, it was meant to serve very wealthy people who owned a lot of land. And that's still a system that we have today. And, and it, it's something we, we, we would change. We would expand what what the House of Representatives does and and make it more actually representative of of people who who live in this. Speaker 2 Country. So would you like to abolish the Senate? Speaker 5 That's that's part of our platform and we don't think that's extreme. We think it's it's a change that would help make this country more democratic. Speaker 3 So the extremists are taking over the Democrat Party about what do you plan to do if you defund the Pentagon? How are you going to protect yourself in a world full of terrorists and people that wish I'll on this country? What are you going to do without prisons? Evil is real. We see this in almost every single blue jurisdiction around the country. They don't believe in cash bail, so they just let everybody out and they maim and murder and rape and pillage and terrorize local communities. You are more likely to be put in harm's way in a blue jurisdiction simply because they refuse to lock people up. What are they going to do? They believe in a Nirvana. They believe in a utopian idea that is terrifying that people aren't innately full of sin. We as Christians understand that the sin nature leads people to do bad things and that we need to be redeemed and the state needs to step in and protect us at times. That their their vision for the future of this country is anarchy. Mamdani's Grocery Plan and Socialism's Freedom Robbery Let me ask you a question. Socialists winning Democratic primaries, candidates from the far left and look at this here. Among Democrats, this is that Fox poll a majority have a favorable view of. Speaker 6 Socialism. Step outside the Democratic Party. It's a totally different world. Look at independence. Socialism. Deeply unpopular there. So is that a vulnerability for Democrats that would keep them from capitalizing on Trump's obvious weaknesses here? Speaker 3 Democratic socialism is now the majority position within the Democrat Party. OK. The problem that Democrats are going to face is that with independence only, it's like 15 to 20% have a favorable view of it. 77% do not like socialism. They have an unfavorable view of socialism. So that's going to be something that plays into our politics, at least in the short term. Hopefully that trend continues. Hopefully independence, which is a growing portion of the population, People don't want to be affiliated necessarily with a political party as much as they did in the past, understandably. So. Both parties let us down all the time. So that's going to play into our politics in a major way. Now. This is the offer of socialism, I think. Mayor Mom Donny presents the flowery language, the promises of free stuff. We call it free stuff populism. It was where this was going to go inevitably. And Charlie knew this. This is Mayor Mom Donnie talking about his grocery store idea. Here you go, slot 19. Here's how it will work. Once a month, our five city run grocery stores will set prices for this core set of goods at 30% below typical retail prices. No exceptions, no gimmicks. The savings will last for the entire month. All right, so he's going to give you cheaper stuff, government funded stuff. By the way, he's now going to going to tax New Yorkers if they have a second home that they use as a vacation place. He's bragging about it. So he's going to force all the capital to flee New York, but he's still going to promise all these free goodies based on a depleted an income base, a tax base that's getting smaller, not larger. Because that's what happens in socialism. Smart people, productive people, the great people that the people that built this country in the continue to make it thrive and to continue to make it rich. They will flee to red states where they don't have to put up with this garbage. But they don't really talk about that, do they? But again, I go back to Marco Rubio. This is a man who thought long and hard about socialism because of his Cuban background, and he points out why it sounds good, but why it's really, really bad. It will rob you of your freedoms. SOT 16. Speaker 4 Democratic socialism sounds benign, but at the core of democratic socialism is Marxism, and at the core of Marxism is this fake offer that if you turn over more of your individual freedom, we're going to provide you security, we're going to provide you free healthcare, we're going to provide you free education. But the problem is that when they can't deliver on it or when you're not happy with it, you don't get your freedoms back. And by freedoms, I don't just mean elections. I'm talking about the right to choose your own doctor, the right to make healthcare decisions for yourself, what your kids learn in school, what schools they go to, all that stuff you lose control over and you don't get it back just because the, the, the, the security they promised you didn't happen. So that's what we're on the verge of having to decide here in this country. It's a lot. It's a reason why people flee countries that have this stuff. It's a big deal for America and I hope people start waking up to that reality. AOC's Rise, Urgent Threat: Reform or Revolution That's exactly right. So they promise you free healthcare, they promise you free schooling, they promise you all of these things, but when they fail to deliver a superior product, you lose that freedom. Once you give it over to them to have any choice, to have any selection, to be able to determine where your kid goes to school, what they learn, to determine what kind of goods and services you're able to buy, that is ultimately the end point for Marxism. That's why when you go to a grocery store in Cuba or grocery store in Russia, the options are very limited. And if you don't like it, too bad, you don't get any other options. You don't get it to select something that's superior because it's a flattening. It's a permanent state of grey and lowness. It might. Meanwhile, the tax base is fleeing to Florida. Mom Donnie. But here's the here's the kicker. And this is what we need to know. And by the way, AOC, they just did a New Hampshire primary poll and breaking news AO CS in first place in New Hampshire. She is a Democrat socialist and she is leading the presidential primary polling for Democrats in New Hampshire. So this is coming to a community near you very, very soon. It's you need to wake up to how urgent the need is. But Charlie understood this. He understood that we are on a race against the clock as conservatives. Our ideas must prevail and they must be successful soon and very soon, or else more and more young people with the affordability crisis, the housing crisis, not being able to afford to start a family and get married, that problem will cause radical politics to emerge in this country, and it's already doing it. And Charlie knew it. SAT 20. Speaker 1 Look, you've got two options. You can go MAGA or Maggione ISM. You can go MAGA or you can go Mamdaniism. You can go MAGA or even go Muhammad ISM. It's very funny how all the Ms. MAGA is the only option on the right. Neoconservatives are not coming back. The corporate oligarchs we're not going to let happen. So MAGA has cemented the worldview of the American right. But the left, we don't know. It could go Maggione, which is the most extreme. You could go Mamdani, which is very, very extreme. Or you go Muhammadi, Muhammadism, which is just, you know, Muslim, Islamic takeover. You get reform or you get revolution. We at MAGA want to reform stuff political undercurrent underneath Maggione that cannot be ignored, that should not be dismissed, and that political reality is that is on the American left. Speaker 3 Very prescient from Charlie. We have two options ahead of us. Reform or revolution. Let's hope we get it right. AOC Leads New Hampshire, Primary Schedule Debated All right, without further ado, we have the great. Speaker 7 Mark Halperin, editor in chief of Two Way TV and host of Next up on the Megyn Kelly Network. Mark, welcome back to the show. It's great to have you. And there's no Blake today. You just get me. So I apologize or you're welcome, depending on how you say things. Mark, there's two things I want to talk about. I want to talk about JD because you went viral for a clip explaining kind of what the dynamic is, OK? And I want to talk about Democrat primaries because it's already heating up ahead of 2028. So let's start there. Let's start with the Democrat primaries. There was a poll that came out out of New Hampshire that had AOC leading. And there was an open question, are the Democrats going to start with New Hampshire? They're going to start with South Carolina. They're going to start with Nevada. All had different tactical decisions behind them, but it's just a very interesting glance and insight into the inner workings of the Democrat operation, the establishment. I would play a little clip of AOC reacting to being on top of the New Hampshire Democratic primaries early days, but it's still noteworthy. Stop for. Speaker 2 Second of all, I don't know if you saw there's a new University of New Hampshire poll showing you leading in the presidential race in New Hampshire. What are your thoughts about that? Polls are polls in a horse race is a horse race. I am, of course, I think very deeply humbled and and grateful to, you know, folks who who participate and convey that confidence. And you know, it's I'm honestly, I think my main focus is is really genuinely just the midterms right now. We have to make sure that we win this majority. Speaker 7 She, she had, she did the fake, the fake brag, the humble brag very well there. Mark, explain to our audience what the rationale for different states being picked 1st and what we can surmise from the fact that South Carolina was indeed picked. Speaker 6 Well, there's no way to make US calendar that doesn't favor or disadvantage some potential candidates and others. There's no, there's no equal way to do it, and there's no way to do it to pick the perfect calendar to advantage the Democratic Party. What's the Democratic Party's goal? It's to get the strongest nominee who can win a general election, right? So in the olden days before you were born, the calendar was set. It was Iowa and New Hampshire, and then everything after that moved around. But it didn't really matter because Iowa and New Hampshire were disproportionately influential. The Democratic Party has decided that those two states cannot go first, in large part because they're not diverse and, and there's something to that. But when you take those two states out of the equation, Iowa completely at New Hampshire going third, you're asking for trouble because you're asking for unpredictability. You're welcoming unpredictability, and you're asking voters who pay far less attention than Iowa, New Hampshire voters do to make your selection. In this case, you could imagine that behind the scenes, a candidate who would like to South Carolina to be first. Or more than one were engaged in machinations. I see no sign of that. This is basically made because the Democratic Party wanted a state with a large percentage of the electorate being black voters to go 1st. And so now the question is who? Who advantage? Who is advantage by that? By for prospective candidates, one person's clearly advantageous. Kamala Harris. I don't know that this is good for AOC, honestly. It could be, but it it's not clear that it is. Speaker 7 Yeah, I, I tend to see the same thing here. Mark I when they picked South Carolina, I thought it was a huge snub at North New Hampshire, right where AOC is winning. But you know what's interesting? I think the Democrat Party, we had Evan Barker on last week, Mark, and she was talking about her view inside the Democrat apparatus. She was a fundraiser for them and she felt like the party in general learned the wrong lesson from the Obama years that it became instead of the message of Obama, which is sort of colorblind and we're all one it the the Democrat Party took it into this complete, I would say race to the bottom with, you know, racial grievances, tribalism, identity politics. And it feels like that's continuing on the whole tribalization of the Democrat Party is who are you going to favor, a white state, New Hampshire, more Hispanic leading state in Nevada or a more black leaning state in South Carolina? And that is going to have ramifications down the road. It feels like everything in the Democrat Party has become a question. Speaker 3 About those racial politics. DNC's Diverse State Choice and Unpredictability I don't think that's a winner, Mark, actually, because I think they're, this is going to disadvantage their stronger candidates. But Kamala Harris and AOC, Kamala's polling down at the bottom. I think we have that New Hampshire poll here. If you guys want to throw that up. It's let me see which number it is here. Yeah #3 OK, so you got AOC and this is New Hampshire, AO CS at the top, Buttigieg, Mark Kelly, Gavin Newsom, Bernie Sanders, and then Kamala in New Hampshire. I haven't seen the polling in South Carolina, but we have to guess that this is I guess the, the real question here is, Mark, are they rigging? Are they rigging it again? Are the, is the Democrat establishment rigging the primary again for their favorite candidate and does well? Are you hearing that Kamala has the sort of pull internally to get this type of stuff done? Is she? Is she the preferred candidate of the establishment? Speaker 6 She's not at all. And again, I believe this happened not to favor a candidate, but to put their finger on the scale, as you said, for black voters in today's Democratic Party. Not even or not, it's not just the Super woke who say New Hampshire too white to go first. It's just too white for the party. And and look, there's something to that. Not only is it almost entirely white, with the exception of Manchester and Portsmouth, it doesn't really have cities, right? So ideally, if you're if you're trying to be fair and equitable and produce the strongest possible nominee, you want a state that is representative of the country. You want someone who and representative of the party. You want someone who can win and show some stuff. Now, if you go first, you don't necessarily have as much influence as if you go third or fourth, because if you go first, you're not going to narrow it down to one. You're going to narrow it down to anywhere from 2:00 to 5:00, OK. And so South Carolina, by going first, has taken away that role it had, which was basically pick the president, pick or pick the nominee. Now they're going to be in the winnowing business. And so now even if you're Pete Buttigieg, who's not displayed very much ability to get black vote, you got to try. So. So I think everybody's going to go to South Carolina and try. It's also a red state. It's not a purple state or a blue state. Some people say, well, that's not good for the party. Well, I think it is go compete for red voters, go compete for more conservative voters. And, and, and, and on paper, it should defend benefit Kamala Harris, who has the strongest support amongst black voters right now. But let's see and let's see, of course, even if she runs. So the answer to your first question is I, as I said, I don't think this was meant to favor any candidate. It will. It will end up doing that, but I don't think that was the intention. Speaker 7 Yeah, I think that's interesting. I think it comes becomes more interesting, Mark, because we are looking at a Democrat party that is so divided right now between this rising far left DSA cohort within its ranks, which really has captured so much of the grassroots energy and the more establishment wing. I looked at the choice of South Carolina that this is a favor. This is them trying to stack the deck in favor of of the more moderate wing of the party to give them a leg up as they head into that second, third, fourth primary. States that that was my my guess. Speaker 6 You really think that? But we'll see if. Speaker 7 I'm right or wrong? Speaker 6 You really think the DNC wanted to have a more moderate candidate? Maybe pretty liberal. Speaker 7 Group, I mean, I think for electability in a general presidential election, yeah, probably. But they did the same because they did the same thing with Hillary and Bernie, and they've done the same thing. Speaker 6 But they've moved left. They've moved left. But, but I'll say if, if you wanted to stack it for a more establishment candidate, I don't know that this would have been the right pick. I think, I think Nevada or Michigan might have been a better first choice. I really think you don't know what was in the hearts of and the minds of everyone, every member of the committee. But I really do think the primary driver here was they wanted, they wanted a state that was interested, right? Not every state applies. They want to start with a smaller state, a state that's got affordable television advertising rates, a state that geographically you can get across and campaign in where where the playing field somewhat level. And you want you want to reward black voters because they're such a big part of the Democratic constituency. So you also run a risk if you pick a state that's never gone early before, because if you go early, there's a lot of pressure. And lastly, and I think this is probably a big reason, it's reportedly a big reason why they chose it over Nevada. You want a state that can count quickly. You can't. You can't have the first primary take so long to count the votes that the second primary is already happening, right? And and we know from the last two. Speaker 3 Presidents. Speaker 6 Nevada, Nevada doesn't count very fast. You got to know in the in the case of these rapid fire primaries, every week or so, you got to know who won like that night. You can't let it go. They can't let it hang in every time. Speaker 7 Well, that's just, I mean, so you're basically telling me California is never going to get selected because. Speaker 6 That's part of the reason. But it's also. Yes, but it's also too big. Yeah, but it's also too big. I mean, California has become famous for not counting quickly. But. But think about the last few presidential cycles when when we've been waiting for weeks for Nevada to count. Speaker 3 Yeah, no, exactly. It's it's way too long. Establishment vs. Populism: The Battle Around JD Vance Good conversation is about respect. It's how we create a space where people are able to share their ideas and be heard. Charlie knew that. Turning Point still knows that. Speaker 7 Mark, you went viral for this clip, so I'm going to I'm going to play the clip and then we'll go from there. This is of course, on JD. We had a whole long conversation about this last week. A lot of people clipped up our show as well. It seems like JD is the proxy right now. SOT 2. Speaker 6 But what we're seeing now with people lashing out of JD, then it is largely the establishment who sees in some cases, the opportunity to break the Trump grip on the Republican Party, to go back to a Republican Party that they liked before. And JD Vance isn't kowtowing to that. He's not catering to that. What he did on Rogan is, is that's the real JD Vance saying things other people won't say. Speaker 7 Really fascinating clip there, Mark and I. I thought it was so succinct. Explain this dynamic because, you know, we back in 2016, we had the Never Trumpers. You know, there was the cover of the National Review and it felt like basically Trumpism and MAGA won and there's a resurgence. And it seems like Marco and JD are that proxy battle heading into 2028. What What is? What are the dynamics at play, and what are you watching for? Speaker 6 Well, you can't paint too with too broad a brush, right? Not everybody who doesn't like JD Vance or poses him for the nomination is motivated by a desire to return to the Romney, Bush, McCain, Republican Party. But some of them are. Some of them are. Some of them don't like his position on Israel. Some of them don't like him personally. But what's what's beyond doubt is the level of vitriol for him is quite high. And some of it can't quantify how much, but some of it is driven by people who say Trump's a lame duck. We cannot let MAGA continue to control this party. We have to go back, whether it's Israel or tariffs or taxes or whatever it is. We cannot go back to a pre. We have to go back to a pre Trump Republican Party. We cannot let MAGA continue to dominate the party. And and it's fascinating because I, you know, not everybody likes what JD Vance says, including to Joe Rogan. But but go back and look at what he said and ask yourself, did he say anything that was wrong about Israel? Did he say anything that was wrong about taxes or the economy? They may not agree with him on his position, but his but in terms of facts, with a few exceptions, he was spot on. And, and a lot of them privately agree with what he's saying. So their distaste for MAGA, their distaste for the Trump era. I asked him what it, what is it that you don't like? What is it besides Trump himself, besides his style, besides his violation of some norms, What is it that you don't like? And it's going to be fascinating to see JD Vance navigate this because since Rogan, he's largely been out of the limelight because he just had a kid. So I'll be curious to see how he speaks about all this stuff when he comes back and starts doing interviews again. Speaker 7 Yeah, you know what's interesting? I did sort of a very unscientific real world polling, just asking, you know, friends of mine, associates, colleagues about some of the statements about Israel or, you know, Iran. The MOU. Obviously he was seen out front with the MOU. And what struck me, Mark, is just how popular and mainstream the things that he was saying have really become with a lot of people on the right. Now when you get on X, it's a battlefield, right? You, you people that represent different constituencies are really vocal, really loud, they're sniping at him. But in general, it was kind of a middle of the line popular, I guess, sentiment that he was expressing. But then you go on X and you think it's like he said something completely untoward. I actually happen to think that he's carving out some really popular populist positions. You know, some people I heard, I think Ben Shapiro said that he, you know, he was seeing socialist economics. I didn't hear that at all. He's talking about common good economics. I think that is popular because there is a felt need, whether it be affordability or the wealth inequality that has, you know, exploded after Kovid. I think he's got the winning message in a lot of ways. I'm a big supporter of his, but I understand that people are not they're they think he's these are some of the things I've heard that he's too tied to Tucker. He hasn't disavowed Tucker or something that they they don't think he's, you know, got the proper foreign policy position on Israel or that he was too aggressive on the MOU. But if you look. Speaker 3 The MOU was popular. His, you know, he actually got a. Speaker 7 Boost in the polling when he started pushing the Mou and a lot of people want to see the Mou get put back in place as we exchanged, you know, jabs with with Iran. But these things tend to be very popular. I think your point is well made. And I, I experienced that first hand talking to people over the weekend and at the end of last week. I don't see where the controversy is. Now. One thing I want to say, Mark, because I think this is getting lost in it. I'm not alleging the people that are attacking him on X, for example, are paid to do so. I think they have really legitimate questions and concerns. But my guess is he's going these these are popular positions. Speaker 6 Yeah, many of them are. I think it's, you know, look, any vice president, I've covered several vice presidents who people thought of as potentially running for president and I'm still not sure he's going to run. By the way, any vice president gets negative coverage. It's the nature of the beast. You go back and look at how Al Gore was covered or Dan Quayle was covered or Kamala Harris. It's a tough job to do well in because you have to agree with the boss. And, and as, as the saying goes, you get all of his enemies and only a few of his friends at the same time, the the the beyond people who don't want him to be the future of the party. It's difficult as vice president to enunciate what you really think because you got to go with what the boss thinks. So, for instance, I really don't know what JD Vance thinks about the current Trump administration policies on the economy. The policies on Iran get a lot of attention for obvious reasons. But where is he on the economy? I don't really know how he might differ from Donald Trump on the economy. And I think if he does run for president, it'll be both a challenge because we'll have to separate politely from his boss, but also an opportunity to define himself maybe on different terms. And I've no doubt he's a free market capitalist. But but his boss has, you know, people say, well, he's his economic policies are are Democrat. A lot of things Donald Trump has been for, like taking ownership in these companies, that that that's not traditional Republican economics either. Speaker 7 Yeah, Mark, when do you is it after the midterms that this becomes more fair game? Speaker 3 Is that the timing? Speaker 6 Yeah, yeah. I'd say between November and March we'll know a lot more. Speaker 7 Mark Halperin amazing analysis is always. Speaker 6 Good to see you man. Speaker 3 Take care, we'll talk to. Speaker 6 You soon. Episode Break We have a great treat in store for you and that is, of course, Jay Feely. Feely's Path to Congress and Ideological Divide He is now the official Republican nominee for CD1, trying to send him to Congress. He had a great primary victory last week. We covered it live, of course, with Tyler Boyer, COO of Turning Point Action. Now he joins us. Jay, welcome back to the show and congratulations on a massive, massive primary victory. It was not easy, but you ended up winning by kind of a lot. Give us your reactions of what that moment meant for you and where that leaves us now. Speaker 5 Andrea, you know, it was a special day. I'll take you back to that morning. You know, my wife and I got up and we said the prayer that we've said every single day since we announced that we were running, and that's to put on God's full armor protection. We walked through it every morning. And then we had a great piece about it. You know, I didn't know which way it was going to go. We knew what the polls were showing and I knew that we had done all the work that we could do. You know, we did all the events. We knocked on 8000 doors, doors in July alone. We made 80,000 calls and our team had been putting in all the work. And you know, I just had a piece and I just prayed, you know, OK, God, if you want me in this political process, then open the doors. And if you don't, then close the doors like I want your will to be done. And because of that, we could have a great piece. You know, Paul talks about that piece that transcends all understanding. That's how my wife and I felt. And you know, I'm excited about this process. You know, I'm kind of reinvigorated because when you're running a primary, you're running against guys that mostly have the same beliefs that you have. And, and now, you know, in this general, you know, the two parties have never been further apart ideologically. And the Democrat Party has, has wholeheartedly embraced Democrat socialism. And, and you can really focus on the issues and you can focus on the differences and, and where this country is going, You know, one party wants to, you know, embrace this Democrat socialist mentality, open borders, open prisons, getting rid of the Senate, you know, completely undermining and changing the very foundations that this country was founded on. And one party believes in common sense ideas, trying to create equality, trying to create the right economic environment for people to thrive individually and businesses to thrive and, and to respect individual liberties. You know, and I'm excited for to be able to make that distinction. Speaker 3 Yeah. I mean, that was really well put, Jay. I mean, we spent a lot of our first hour of the show today talking about the rise of DSA and what their policy planks actually are. It's terrifying. And people don't realize that the Democrat Party apparatus in the state of Arizona is very radical. I mean, it's indistinguishable from Mamdani's New York, the ideas that they're espousing, what their vision for the future is. So tell us about your opponent now in the general and what we would get if we don't get Jay Feely over the finish line in CD1 for Arizona. Jay Feely Exposes Opponent's Socialist Policies Well, I think it's pretty interesting. If you go back to this primary, the Democrats spent about $7,000,000 just in this primary. They endorsed Marlene Woods. They did not endorse Dr. Amisha. They spent a ton of money against him, you know, and, and they wanted somebody who they felt would fit this district more, somebody who was more moderate. And they didn't get that. And, you know, they, they got Amisha again, who ran two years ago against David Schweikert, lost 5248. You know, any, any somebody who wants a single payer system, you know, that wants Medicaid for all and, you know, wants to embrace and has embraced a lot of these Democrats, socialist policies that, you know, believes in the destruction of capitalism and the destruction of the American empire. And, you know, wants to undermine so many of the foundational qualities that we believe. And you have to, I think a rational person is going to look at where this Democrat socialist movement is going. Who are the leaders of the Democrat Party now? It is AOC and Bernie Sanders. It is Mondani. They are having tremendous success around the country, not just in New York with the three House seats there, but in Colorado and Pennsylvania, in the mayor race in DC. This is spreading across the country. And the Democrat Party is panicking about this because they know. That these ideas and the ideology that they expose, especially here in CD1 in this district that you know, is a as a center right district and it's a district that has 60,000 more registered Republicans and Democrats got 180,000 registered independents. And I believe most of those independents lean to the right, you know, but they want the right economic opportunities for their children to succeed in the next generations. They want individual liberties. And they do not want this platform that believes in fundamentally changing America and what's made it great. You know, you look at the last 250 years, what we've been able to accomplish and the poverty that capitalism has eliminated, not just here in this country, but around the world. It is the greatest system to lift people out of poverty and give people who come from nothing the opportunity to be a success in life. That's what's great about America. That's why we are, you know, the shiny beacon on the hill. And we need to fight for that. And we're going to continue to make that distinction throughout this race with with me and Amisha. Speaker 3 Yeah. And you started this conversation, Jay, basically saying, hey, listen, the ideological divergent between the two parties has never been greater, never been larger. And the Dsas plan for America is to destroy it, is to destroy what has made America, America. And you go around your district and I know that district pretty well now as I've moved to Arizona, you know, in November, really before that of last year. And it's you feel it, it's a center right district. The question is going to be turn out. And the reason this is so critically important is the midterms. We don't see as much turn out. Trump's not on the ballot. That's why what we're doing to turning point action is so critically important. And I I just want to stress this for the audience listening. Jay Feely's district, CD1 in Arizona could be what the entire Congress, the balance of power hinges upon your district. No pressure, Jay, but that's how big the stakes are in your district. It's one of the few true swing districts in the country. And we've got more registered Republicans there. The question is, can we get them out? And that's why Turning Point Action is investing so much time and energy in CD One. That's why we have ballot chasers deployed because we believe in you. And I just want to say you are the right man for this job. I know that in my gut, you are a good Christian man. You pray you, you raise your kids to love the Lord. You raise a beautiful family and you've put your heart and soul into this. So action items we got to get people to come out. Do not be disaffected The the future of Western civilization could very well hang on CD1. Jay Feely Urges Christian Engagement for America's Future So what? What are the action items for people listening Jay? Speaker 5 Well, I, I love that. I love the fact that it's consequential. I talked about that in, in my speech after we won in the primary. You like when you do things, you want to be involved in something that's going to have real meaning and going to have an impact on the future of our country. And I truly believe that this seat in this election, this midterm election has the ability to fundamentally shape our country going forward. I, I think one of the things that we need, Andrew, is Christians to be engaged in the political process. We have 40 million Christians around the country that don't vote, that aren't engaged in the process. You know, and for me, you know, we're going to do all kinds of events. We're going to do town halls where we talk to independents and Democrats. Come on out and talk to us here, here. What I believe and why I believe it, the impact that I've tried to have on this community, the engagement that my wife and I have always done, you know, throughout my time in the NFL and why I wanted to get into politics to effectuate people's lives, you know, but the other thing I want to do is I want to go to churches and I want to sit down and be able to talk to people in those communities, in those churches about why they should care about this process, the impact it has. Because I believe if you're a Christian and you believe in trying to live a life for Christ, then there's only one party that you can support. Doesn't mean that the the Republican Party and conservatives are perfect. Not by any means, but when you look at the two parties and what they advocate for and where they want this country to go, if you believe in God and you are a Christian, there's only one party that's advocating for those policies, that respects life and tries to create the right opportunity for this country to follow its judeo-christian roots. And that is the conservatives that is the Republican Party. You know, so I, I want to do something that isn't done a lot in politics and going and doing those meetings in churches on Saturday, talking, giving the right opportunity and forum for people in those churches to come up and hear you and question you and listen to you because we need those people engaged. We're going to do our huddles that we do every Sunday where we go into people's homes and you invite all your friends and family, not as a fundraiser, but to communicate and talk and to be able to ask questions. We're going to be doing our Friday Night Football events that we that we started last year where we go to all the football games. Speaker 3 Jay Feely for Congress. Jay Feely for Congress. Get involved, Chip in some money. This man is the real deal, and he's going to take it home for us over the finish line in CD1. Jay, thank you so much. Rand Paul Exposes Fauci's Ego and School Closure Lies All right, so I don't know if you guys have seen this yet, but it is definitely worth covering on this show. Doctor Fauci is in the news again. And why? Because Senator Rand Paul, Republican from Kentucky, publicly released the Fauci Diaries that he uncovered in the course of his investigation into Anthony Fauci, and he released them on July 25th, 2026 as part of a Senate Homeland Security Committee oversight investigation into COVID-19 origins and Fauci's role. Senator Paul posted a thread on Tony's Diaries covering roughly December 2019. So right before the outbreak was felt very strongly here in the United States, we were getting reports of it in China. So it covers it from December 2019 through December 2022. And it's all available on the Senate side. I recommend you guys go check it out. I'm pouring through it right now. But what he does is he frames what Doctor Fauci said publicly versus what he wrote privately in his own journal. And this is becoming shortly before Doctor Fauci is scheduled subpoenaed to testify before the committee. So these are contemporaneous notes of what Doctor Fauci saw and what he was saying and versus what he said publicly, which we have a very ample record of. And there is a couple of things that are just extraordinary. OK, absolute bombshell stuff. One, we get this weird view into Doctor Fauci being completely obsessed with himself and his own fame. He notes more than once at his, he's almost flabbergasted at how famous he was becoming, that he is probably the most famous scientist in the world. He posts pictures like this. 167 This is actual entries from Doctor Fauci's journal, his diary, where he's posting pictures of him, of cookies on himself. He has a bobble head doll that he's just so taken by. This is actual. Have you ever known a man to post diary injuries of this nature? 168 This is more the Fauci pouchy. These are, I guess, alcoholic beverages of some sort, and they've got his face on him. He loves this. He posts another, a mosaic, this again released by Chairman Rand Paul of the Homeland Security Committee. Of all these people wearing Fauci shirts. He's obsessed with himself. This is what's also fascinating. So we have public video available to all of us. This is part of the public record of Anthony Fauci and denying that he had anything to do with closing schools. Turns out, though, he left a little breadcrumb for us in his diary. 157 This is saying I spoke with Bill de Blasio, mayor of New York City, and convinced him, based on what I was saying publicly in my conversation tonight, to close the New York City schools. I went on to tell him he could close the bars and restaurants in New York City. I had a similar call with Anne O'Leary, the chief of staff of Governor Gavin Newsom of California, and said that based on my TV appearances today and yesterday, the Governor has decided to close the schools in California as well as bars and restaurants. This is a direct contradiction to his publicly stated statements that he had nothing to do with closing the schools. He convinced New York and California, which led the way on these draconian lockdowns, to close everything up. The other thing that becomes really interesting is this discussion about where the origin of the virus came from. Private Notes Reveal Fauci Knew COVID-19 Origin There is a very, very famous meeting of 12 scientists that gathered in a room. And from that we got proximal origin, right, that it came from the wet market. Well, it turns out of those 12 scientists, only two believe that it came out of the wet market. The rest of them believe that direct insertion IEA lab leak was more probable. So this is 158, Fauci writes in his diary. Now we know the market was not the source, it was the amplifier. OK, this is January of 2020. The wet market was already off the table in his own private notes, and yet we took months of deliberation saying that it was probably a lab leak. We had an argument very, very loud and vociferous that it was probably a lab leak because the Wuhan Institute was right there where the source of the spread originated. It was very obvious to anybody with common sense, and yet they denied this. They obfuscated, they lied publicly, but in his own notes. As of January 2020, we knew that the wet market was off the table. We got banned on social media for saying this. You were not allowed to say this. This was called dangerous disinformation. That it was sparking anti Chinese racism. Pretty remarkable. Only to concluded it was natural. You could throw up 159. This is a list of scientists on that call only to concluded it was natural per Fauci's own notes. The rest felt that deliberate insertion was the was the case. This was as Doctor Rand Paul says, it was never a 5050 room as was expressed. So in May 23rd of 2021, Fauci called the lead author of Proximal Origin, the paper he'd been citing publicly as independent science, for reassurance about his own NIH grant, his diary. I feel much better now that he is in total support of what I have been saying. OK, so listen to this. I had a very interesting and helpful conversation today with Christian Anderson of Scripps Research Institute. He was very emphatic that the work that was done at the Wuhan Institute in association with our grant was not gain a function. In addition, he confirmed that if you match the turmeric viruses that were made in the context of the NIH granted Wuhan, they are not even close sequences sequence wise to the SARS COV 2. So this is basically establishing that he gets to keep his grant. There is so much more here that needs to be unpacked, and we're going to unpack it in the days to come, but watch this space. Doctor Fauci is probably the biggest shape shifting liar of a con artist that's ever been unleashed on the American public, and he's being caught out by his own freaking diary. You can't make this stuff up. Episode Break All right, Rich Barris big Data poll joins us now, the people's pundit. Rich Barris Warns of Republican Base Betrayal Rich, you sent me an article over the weekend that definitely, you know, gives me pause, right? And it came from the Washington Post. They went out and they talked to a bunch of people in the field and they're noticing a lack of enthusiasm, ISM. And I think this is the standout quote. It says about one in five reliable Republican base voters are at risk in November. They either will stay home or vote Dem across Iowa, Ohio, North Carolina. I believe that's Montana, New Hampshire and Michigan. That's that's terrifying. Rich, is that you've been warning about this for a long time since I said, Rich, you got to come on. And what is driving this at risk? Purported one in five. Is it that bad? Speaker 2 It's and I think everyone needs to remove the term black Pilling from their vocabulary, OK people like me who have been better or not even better the best at surveying and measuring and tracking the Trump coalition, which is different than any previous Republican coalition have been now for over a year. And by the way, that included Charlie because he was one of my only allies before Operation Midnight Hammer it trying to warn everybody that if you do, this will be seen as a gross betrayal by a huge and critical section of your base and they will not come back. They may. And this is not me being hyperbolic. I'd this is a group of people who join the Trump coalition because they expected something different. What they got was more of the same Republicanism that the country rejected after George W Bush. I can't even be anymore plain than that. It started with how the mishandling of the Epstein situation came in to be. By the way, New York Times best selling book now came out and completely confirmed everything that I tried telling people. Even Dan Bongino knew I was right even though he wasn't. He didn't have the courage to say it in public and we are at this point now. I mean Andrew, I do this every day for a living. Why would you listen to people ridiculous Twitter handles who interview 0 people on a daily basis? This is what I do and have done better than anybody else for more than a decade, especially in the Trump era. This is not good. This isn't simple, you know, being disaffected. This is a 5 alarm fire that we need to address. And I've been trying to shoot up flares for more than a year now to no avail. And I think honestly, we're in the field now. You're going to see the poll real soon, Andrew. I think the rug poll on the peace deal is, is a problem more than a problem. It's it's, yeah. Speaker 3 Well, so let's go through this. So you sent me some some graphics here. Yeah, your your first one. It's just two colors, easy to read. It's a pie chart you said. Do you think it is worth paying $4.00 a gallon or higher for gas to continue fighting the Iran war? Your poll says 34.1% says yes it's worth paying higher gas prices to fighting around. 65.9% say no, it's higher now. Speaker 2 It's higher now since we talked and I sent that to you. I mean, we obviously continue to interview people for the rest of Sunday. It's higher. Let me just ask a question real quick. Ben, can you read, Are you colorblind? Mark Thiessen, you're the one who brought up the $4.00 gasoline per gallon. Can you read, are you colorblind? Mark Levin, can you read are you colorblind you? That entire group doesn't have a single single data point on their side to argue for the catastrophic policy that they have have led this administration in, that they have advocated for, which is, by the way, more of the same Bush ISM. It's the exact reason while Donald Trump was able to win a nomination against 17 other people and by the way, make the biggest political, most impressive political comeback in U.S. history. So why on earth would we ever think it was a good idea to go down the path of those people, the dinosaurs, who represent a shrinking and dying? It's not even a coalition. It's a shrinking and literally dying demographic in the US electorate. The only thing they've accomplished since. And, and yes, you know, people like Charlie and I were successful in limiting the the strikes last year. But what we knew, what everyone else didn't want to accept is that if they did Operation Midnight Hammer, it was always going to lead to an unpopular full on kinetic war. And now here we are, Andrew. And the only thing they accomplished, the only thing this group of people have accomplished, is that now MAGA has shrunk and transformed into something that is dwarfed by what the Democrats are going to put together. Unfortunately, it looks that way. And millennials want nothing to do with the Republican Party, which is maybe people don't know this. And by the way, go by, burn it down, go preorder it. That's why I wrote it. I'm sorry I didn't write it sooner. I wish people would have been able to read it sooner so we didn't have to go through this painful process. How Trump Mobilized Millennials and Changed Politics But millennials are actually the largest voting eligible population share in this country. Boomers just vote at a higher rate, but they turn 80 this year and will soon fall off. Chasing away millennials was the single most unwise is the the best word I could drum up right now move that I've ever seen a political party make. Speaker 3 Rich so with millennials, you know, we saw a big move, OK, if you date all the way back to Obama when they when we lost millennials by I don't know what it was like 40 points or something. It became basically a a swing vote. It was a 5050 vote. Yeah. What did it? What were millennials at in 2024? And now what? What's the delta since the election? Speaker 2 OK, this is important because Donald Trump didn't just win and win kind of easily, right, Andrew? I mean, we were done at 11:00 at night. We were all, you know, we were done that we haven't seen a presidential election get put away. Surprising. Speaker 7 Since surprisingly easy. Yeah, Since. Speaker 2 Barack Obama dismantled Mark Thiessen's coalition when they ran Mitt Romney. That was the the last time we've seen a presidential election get called that quickly, by the way. All right, this is key to how Trump was able to do that. It wasn't that that he just changed minds. Millennials. And if you look at the story of millennials, of which I am one, you'll see 911 hit them the minute they come into the workforce and they become adults, right? The oldest of the oldest, which is me. I'm right before Gen. X. They get hit with 911 and it completely changes their world and how things work. Unfortunately, it also stripped a lot of their liberties, which soured them on the Republican Party later down the road when it became clear that it wasn't worth it. Then they start to recover from some of this and they get smashed with the financial crisis. All right, then that goes away. Trump comes around. He, you know, resurrects the Republican Party after two very disappointing years when they backed Obama. All right, in 2017, they become the largest share, the largest single generational share of the voting eligible population, but they're still not voting at significantly higher rates. So boomers and others are able to keep them, you know, to to keep them from flexing their political muscles. As we like to say, it's not until 2024 when Donald Trump didn't just change minds. These are disaffected people that through this what happened after that COVID, right? Donald Trump was able to convince a large group of millennials to come out and vote again and participate in the process when in previous elections they had checked out again. They were done. They gave Obama a chance and they're OK. And they came out in large shares for Obama. They drove older shares of the vote down into the mid to low 20s. And then by the time, you know, Obama began to cause disaffection himself, you know, the boomers started to get to the mid and high 20s again, even in some elections in midterms, of course, in the 30s. So they punch way above their weight because they're voting at rates, you know, that are, that are significantly higher. Trump didn't the the millennial mind changer. He did a whole show on this and inside the numbers because of the death of Hulk Hogan and what what it meant culturally. And it was a perfect example, perfectly symbolic. So we did an entire show on this and I don't know at this point. And then people always, well, Rich, what do we do now? The answer is I don't really know Andrew, because I mean, I knew the answer a year ago. I knew the answer six months ago even. And I think before with the peace deal, we saw Trump's his approval rating rebounded strongly. But that peace deal, I showed you that poll. We talked about that poll as well. So did Denise. Oh yes, his favorability shot back positive. It's and by the way, this is another thing to consider and I'm going to put this other stuff to rest, which I try to do every time I come on the show here. JD's the only one who can win a national election, OK Nobody else can win a national election. You have to win the Rust Belt until the. Speaker 3 20 Marco Can Rich. Speaker 2 No, he can't. Zero chance, zero chance. He cannot win one of the Great Lakes Rust Belt states. Look at how close Wisconsin was for Donald Trump. Donald Trump is the reason why you can win the state of Michigan, Pennsylvania. These are not swing states. They're really not. This is the dupe that Republicans have allowed themselves to believe. They're not swing states. They're Trump's swing States and a particular brand of Trump that now, now unfortunately, most voters, whether you support Donald Trump or not is irrelevant. You are still a shrinking part of the electorate, the overall overall electorate. All that matters is how the rest of his coalition from 24 views it, and they don't view it that way anymore. So that hurts, by extension, hurts the only guy who can win a national election. And why can he when others can't? Because of his story. He is that millennial we were just talking about. His entire story embodies their identity. Andrew. Polling Shows Support for Ending the Iran War Rich, go ahead. Charlie was a big believer in the fact that JD was the right pick for vice president because of his story, because he thought that he could help in the Rust Belt. All right, Rich, I want to show another graph from some of your polling here because I think it's really important that people visually see this stuff. 172 throw it up. Do you support or oppose reopening negotiations to end the Iran war? And you've got 40.6% strongly support and then you've got 24.7 that somewhat support. So you add those two together, Rich, you're looking at what 65% of the electorate supports negotiating an end to the Iran, the issue. And we just got a clip by the way, breaking in the middle of of the break. President Trump was on air first one headed to Michigan and he said they want to meet, We're going to meet, we're going to see what happens. All right, Obviously it's tough. It's tough to negotiate with the wrong. This is one of the reasons getting involved in a conflict in the 1st place was probably a questionable because you can always start a war, but you can't, you can't finish. You can't you can't determine when it ends. They get a say in it too, but it's popular Rich. This is why JD's favorable shot up when he was seen as leading the MOU negotiations. How much of an impact can this have if we are successful getting a resolution to the Iran conflict? Speaker 2 You know, it can't hurt. You know, let me, let me put it this way. It can't hurt. It's the only choice at this moment. Last week we did a show. Because a lot of what people hear out there is just patently wrong about the views of Iranian, the Iranian people and the views of the Iranians do matter as far as whether a deal holds or not, because every regime must maintain regime credibility. They can't be seen as capitulating honestly. JD Vance, the the vice president is a Helen Keller like miracle worker. The fact that he was able to get the terms of the MOU that the neo cons hated, by the way, the fact that he was able even able to get those terms, considering what of Iranians, how their opinions have changed after Operation Midnight hammer is a real testament to how much work he must have put into it and how much persuasion you know that the guy must be capable of. Because the truth is, and people hate this, they hate hearing this. But that's true. The war mongers lied to all of you, including the president. The Iranians were not these, you know, rabid, fanatical pursuers of a nuclear bomb. Andrew, it's simply false. You know that in polling from credible organizations that aren't backed by the CIA and other regime change think tanks is very, very clear from Gallup, the University of Maryland, from Pew. They didn't even believe before Operation Midnight Hammer, they didn't even believe Islam permitted the development of nuclear weapons. Now they want a bomb and they are going to be. It's going to be more difficult for the regime to sell this to their population in the wake of Operation Midnight Hammer. I was stunned that JD even got the terms he did because the regime has no incentive. They they can take punishment, Andrew. Their population supports it and they're not a democratically elected government, right? So they don't care. Their number one problem with their regime is economic forms, which they blame the West for anyway. You were all lied to. They were never going to topple their government. There was never an anti Mullah sentiment in in Iran. Mark Levin and the rest of them lied to you. They lied to you. They use fake CIA polling. We've read documents on the show. They're laughing at you because these just fake polls. They're just fake. They were made to Duke the West saying that the. Speaker 3 Domestic population, yeah. Yeah. You're saying the domestic population in Iran is in favor of this regime? It is it the regime is significantly or sufficiently popular? Speaker 2 Absolutely, and the only time in in in multi decades of polling by credible outlets. Not fake CIA LED polling in multi decade trends. You can see that Operation Midnight Hammer was the catalyst, and for the first time ever in the history of their polling, they want a bomb. Good job all. Speaker 3 Right. So rich. OK, so peace. They accepted. Speaker 2 The Ayatollah's spot, by the way, I just wanted to say that they accepted the Ayatollah's spot law not to develop a nuclear weapon, just a nuclear program, but not a nuclear weapon. 78%, Andrew. And it completely turned it around with Operation Midnight Hammer. Good job. Republicans Must Address Domestic Crises to Win So all right, I, I, I hear you loud and clear, but peace is popular. We've we've got to pursue it. And here's the question. So you see the rise of DSA, we only got about a minute and a half left. Rise of DSA, it is a symptom of an underlying problem in our politics. Feels like nothing gets fixed, doesn't matter who you vote for. And the question then becomes, if you had a magic wand and from a messaging and a policy standpoint between now and Election Day in November, what should the admin be hitting hard? What do they need to say real quick? One minute, Rich. Speaker 2 They have to, they have to dump this war and acknowledge the affordability crisis in this country because Mondani is not a fringe candidate. He is a he is the tip of a rising trend. What Andrew is referring to, folks, is the identification question. Every month, the number of Democrats who identify a socialist continue to rise. So I wasn't black Pilling, it was me warning this country that if you turn it over to these people, they are crazy. These are fanatics and they it honestly, Andrew, everybody's got to get back to work. If you want to buck history, you better buck what Congress usually does, which is go home in the second year, especially in the month of August and do nothing. Republicans can't do that. They need to listen to President Trump, get rid of the filibuster, pass the SAVE Act and and acknowledge the affordability crisis and actually do something you promised the American voter you would do. It's that simple. Speaker 3 Yeah, when you got a situation where one in five Republican predictable, reliable voters might stay home, I don't believe that they're going to vote Dem. Maybe some well, but I. Speaker 7 Think some more likely is they're just not. Speaker 3 Going to show up. They're just not going to show up if you do that. That is the underlying elements necessary for a radical revolutionary politics in this country. We've got to focus domestically. Rich Barris. Thank you, my friend. We'll see you soon. Speaker 2 All the best, brother. For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to Charlie Kirk com.

Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. Charlie Kirk emphasizes fighting evil and proclaiming truth, advocating for early marriage, large families, and avoiding college.
  2. The DSA platform includes abolishing the Senate, ICE, prisons, borders, and defunding the Pentagon, framed as destructive and extremist.
  3. Marco Rubio’s speech defines radical leftism as a hatred of civilization, driven by resentment and a desire to tear down achievements.
  4. Socialism is portrayed as offering false promises of security in exchange for freedoms, leading to limited choices and loss of control.
  5. AOC leads in New Hampshire Democratic primary polls, signaling a shift toward far-left politics within the party.
  6. The Democratic primary calendar change to South Carolina first is seen as favoring diversity but creating unpredictability and racial tribalization.
  7. The transcript warns of a choice between reform (MAGA) and revolution (far-left ideologies), with urgency due to crises like affordability and housing.

Summary:

The transcript, hosted by a speaker on the Charlie Kirk Show, centers on opposing the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and their radical agenda, which includes abolishing the Senate, ICE, prisons, and borders, as well as defunding the Pentagon. Marco Rubio’s speech is highlighted, describing radical leftism as a resentment-driven hatred of civilization that seeks to destroy rather than build. The DSA co-chairs confirm these positions, portraying them as mainstream within the Democratic Party, which the speaker argues threatens American values and freedoms.

Socialism is criticized for promising security in exchange for individual freedoms, leading to a loss of choice and a “flattening” of society, as seen in countries like Cuba. The transcript also notes AOC leading in New Hampshire primary polls, signaling a shift toward far-left politics. The Democratic National Committee’s decision to start the primary in South Carolina is analyzed as a move to prioritize diversity but risks unpredictability and racial tribalization.

The speaker frames the political landscape as a choice between reform (represented by MAGA) and revolution (far-left ideologies), with urgency driven by crises like affordability and housing. Charlie Kirk’s call to action encourages activism, early marriage, and religious faith to counter these trends.

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Charlie Kirk argues that college is a scam because it indoctrinates students and burdens them with debt. He urges young people to get married early, have many children, and start Turning Point chapters in schools and churches instead.

Rubio says Marxism is driven by hatred of civilization and a revolt of those who cannot build against those who can. It cloaks itself in equality and justice to destroy what greater men have built, appealing to inadequacy rather than genuine progress.

The DSA platform includes abolishing the Senate, replacing the presidency and Supreme Court, abolishing ICE and borders, defunding the Pentagon, abolishing prisons, and instituting public ownership of large corporations.

A Fox poll shows a majority of Democrats favor socialism, but only 15-20% of independents do, with 77% unfavorable. Since independents are a growing voting bloc, this creates a major vulnerability for Democrats.

The plan offers goods at 30% below retail via city-run stores, but the host says it leads to higher taxes on second homes, capital flight to red states, and loss of freedom when the government fails to deliver, as seen in Cuba and Russia.

Kirk frames the political future as a binary: either conservatives implement reforms to address affordability and housing crises, or young people will turn to radical leftist revolution. He sees this as an urgent race against time.

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