The Charlie Kirk Show - Remembering Mike Ditka + AMA 281

Episode Date: October 9, 2026

Mike Ditka was an all-time great NFL coach and one of Charlie's heroes. The show remembers the Bears legend after his passing, then hits critical campaign news out of Arizona and debate highlights from Michigan, while Mark Halperin weighs in on the mysterious vanishing of James Talarico. Then, it's another hour of questions from subscribers, such as what Charlie's favorite national park was, where to get the right Bible, and what the message has to be toward low-propensity voters. Watch every episode ad-free on members.charliekirk.com!    Get new merch at charliekirkstore.com!Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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mike dicka he was a trump supporter when it was very unpopular to be so especially as a public figure he had the courage of his convictions he didn't put up with any gruff he didn't have time for naysayers or time wasters and that way he reminded me a lot of charlie and he just spoke his mind And he passed away today, and it's important to remember the legends that fall and that go before us. This is the guy who, he was such a legend. He won a Super Bowl for the Chicago Bears, which I'm not sure anyone else is ever going to do. I'm a Packers fan, of course, but he is an all-time legend. One of our emails, Frank said, the most famous Chicagoan of the past 100 years, and I'm including Obama.

Well, Charlie, Charlie give him a run for their money, but yeah. Possibly, possibly, but Chicago legend, of course, but not just a sports. legend, but a guy who had a lot of a very good philosophy on life, actually. Yeah, he did. We have a tweet here from Charlie quoting Mike Dicca. This was back in 2013. It had no retweets, no likes when we found this. Yeah, exactly.

So now it has a few because people found it. Success isn't permanent, failure isn't fatal. Mike Ditka, that was from 2013. Here's Mike Dicca on Colin Kaepernick. I grew up a 49ers fan, and so when Kaepernick went nuts, I'm also from Nevada, so he went to UNR. So when Kaepernick lost his marbles, it really kind of sucked for me because it kind of hit two of my fan bases there.

Here's Mike Dick on it, top 14. Coach, where do you stand on this whole Colin Kaepernick issue? What do you mean? Do you have a problem with Colin Kaepernick? I think it's a problem to anybody who disrespects this country in the flag. If they don't like the country and they don't like our flag, get the hell out. That's what I think. So if you're asking me, I have no.

respect for Colin Kaeparding. He probably has no respect for me. That's his choice. My choice is that I like this country. I respect our flag. And I don't see all the atrocities going on in this country that people say are going on. I see opportunities if people want to look for opportunities. Now, if they don't want to look for them, then you can find problems with anything. But this is the land of opportunity because you can be or anything you want to be if you work. Now, if you don't work, there's a different problem. pretty simple. Great stuff, great stuff. And he was a guy.

Someone tried to heckle him. He called into a radio show that he was on once. And Dicka had a response that... Legendary, very much in the vein of, I think, what Charlie might say. Let's do clip five. Why did it appear that Mike was holding back trying not to cry like the baby that he is? Well, no, I tell you what you are, I can't say on the air. But I tell you what? I'm 53 years old

and my office is 250 North Washington anytime you want to meet me there you call me back on the air you tell me what time and when and I will whip your you got that big boy it's easy to hide behind a microphone son let's get your face on in public

and let's live where people have to see you every day and we'll see who the gutless wonder is you did yeah the modern thing it's easy to be It's easy to be tough anonymous. It's easy to be tough when you're not in person. Charlie also is a big believer. Like, go out, see people face to face.

Touch grass. Here's Mike Dick on President Trump, SOT 6. I think these people are, can I say this? I happen to support Donald Trump. I like Donald Trump. I think he's the best man, best qualified person. I think they'll do a great job for America. A lot of people out there who don't think that.

But we'll have to wait and see. Let him do his job first. if she can possibly screwed up nearly half as much as Obama, I'll be surprised. I highly as half as much as Obama. But Charlie himself talked about Dicka at least once. We'll see if we can find more, but we found this one pretty quickly. Let's do clip 17. Mike Ditka.

I'm a big Ditka fan, by the way. DeBersh, okay? From Chicago, all of you listening on AM5, 6 to the answer. No offense to all of you listening on 77 on the dial on WABC. God bless you guys. but the Chicago first program here as far as my own allegiance. De bears. Debears.

There was me. There was me, too. Man, when was that from? I don't recognize any of that. That was probably 2022. Okay. All right. 21.

Yeah. Anyways, let's see here. So rest in peace, Mike Dicca. We're grateful for your legacy. And to the Dicca family, our hearts are with you. You lost the legend today. So we wanted to at least start the show. with that because he truly was a great American and it just had so much Chicago fight and spirit,

that old school Chicago boy. But the other big story that I want to get, we have a lot of big stories. So we got, we got Mark Halpern coming up in just a few minutes and Cook Political Report is moving more and more races in the Democrat favor. I'm not even convinced any of this stuff, because we've now got a internal poll from Katie Hobbs in Arizona that shows that her approval rate is collapsing. And guess who they're blaming? Yep. Turning point. Their internal memo says turning point has flooded the airwaves with negative attack ads swapping her and bringing her down. She's now well within the margin of air. Andy Biggs has seized the momentum in the state of Arizona.

It's within four. Four. That's the internal polls. Guess what? We feel very confident in our ability to chase three to five points in this race. We've got 25% more ballot chasers in the state of Arizona than we had in 2024. And we threw the kitchen sink at Arizona in 24. and it was the best performing swing state in the country then.

So we like our chances. So please get out, support us. TPaction.com slash 100. We have seized momentum in the state of Arizona. Come help us, help us, help us. All we're going to do is going to give you 100 names of 100 people that are already conservatives that are registered to vote. And you're just going to talk to them and say, hey, our values are on the ballot.

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We have momentum, folks. Here what else you need to know. They admit conservatives are underrepresented in polling. First point. Second point. Undecides are breaking for Andy Biggs, two to one. They're also very concerned that there's a no labels candidate on the ballot and a Green Party candidate on the ballot.

So be a part of the solution. help us with the floridification of Arizona. We have 300,000 plus more registered Republicans in this state. We're up about four points from 2018 in the registration battle. We can do this. Very well. Who cares what Cook says? Who cares what Cook says?

We can pull this off. We can hold the House in the Senate if we come out and we show up and we vote. Okay? That's all you need to know. Don't look at the tea leaves every day and worry and let them suppress you, let them demoralize you be a part of the solution tpaction dot com slash 100 i'm begging you come be a part of this there is no better way to honor the legacy of charlie kirk than to put your feet on the pavement and knock on those doors and send the text and send the make the phone calls drive them to the

ballot place if you need to that's what we're empowering you to do so be a part of it uh and we would be honored, honored to have you join us in fighting to save this country. There's nothing more important this month. I'm telling you, it's going to be a great time. You're going to have the time of your life being a part of something bigger than yourself. President Trump is

celebrating the fact that Columbus Day is back, baby. He's got a bunch of Italian Americans, and he's singing Ave Maria. He loves his operatic singing like that. It's very funny. I think every time I've bitten at an event that the president speaks out, he has that kind of playlist

he likes to play and he does that one opera song that I can't remember and he'll play Phantom the opera and every single time people are like wow I'm really surprised by the music here and it's always the same music yeah it's like how are we still surprised about this all right so let's there was a big debate last night this is another toss-up a jump ball in michigan abdul el-sayyad i would say he's the odds on favorite but he's an incredibly weak candidate and he's a complete con artist and finally he was called a con artist last night by mike rogers which i loved. But let's just play you some clips. We're going to have Mark Halpern join us next, and that's going to be great to kind of go through this, and we'll unpack the Cook Political Report and where

the heck is James Talrico been? Lots of rumors about that squirling. We'll try and separate fact from fiction for you guys. But let's play some clips from the debate, Saute 8. This is the same IRGC that has killed American troops in Iraq. It has blood on their hands, try to terrorist attack here in the United States. If you can't condemn the IRGC, you have no business in the United States Senate. And if you think about why, you know, his supporters funnel money from a group that supports the Muslim Brotherhood. He can't condemn a terrorist act that happened on our soil in the state of Michigan. He can't bring himself to condemn the head. Oh, you did not. You absolutely did not. Don't make stuff up. Talking about making stuff up. I literally condemned it. You know it.

can't condemn it. He can't condemn Hamas. He can't condemn the Muslim Brotherhood. He says his home is Egypt. This is all started. We are going to move along. We can kid. Yeah, after that, Mike Rogers says, yeah, I might have a second home in Florida, but at least it's America, buddy. You've got one in the United Arab Emirates.

Yeah, I mean, this guy, at some point, Blake, and there was a whole debate on CNN about this. I actually want to play it, because I think it was an important clip. When a guy tells you who he is, when he can't condemn the easy stuff, then there is something deeper and darker at play here. And I think El Saeed is that guy now. He refuses to.

He chocks it up to him. I'm not going to play the disavalgame. Okay. These aren't layups. These are layups, rather. These aren't hard calls. Do you condemn terrorists? It would be pretty simple to come out and just like go cartoonishly over the top and be like,

look, they want to make it about my Islam, but I'm like the most fanatically anti-terrorist guy ever, as are almost all American Muslims or basically like all patriotic American Muslims hate terrorists. He could lean in on that. He does not want to lean in on it. He has Hassan Piker help him with events because that's the rising tide of the left. And it's a guy who says, yeah, buddy with care, people who will make excuses for terrorist adjacent people. People who will say terrorist attacks are good, will celebrate them in the U.S.

That is a real faction on the left that they don't want to alienate. That's why he can't do it. Yep, he can't do it. He's telling you who he is, Michigan. Please, please, please pay attention. Sot 13. Is when he was asked, who's the greater danger to America, Israel or Iran? Three times he was asked that.

He refused to answer. Afterwards, he said that's a dumb question. And he was right. It is a dumb question because the answer is so painfully easy, but he couldn't say that. He criticized Mike Rogers for asking him to condemn Hamas, Hezbollah, al-Qaeda, saying they're scary words, but he hasn't condemned them.

And they are scary words because they've killed hundreds of thousands of innocents, including 3,000 Americans, three miles south of here. So at a certain point, it goes from either this is political malpractice at the best, or he can't or he won't because of something deeper. And that is far more troubling. It's a good point. It's a good point, Peter Meyer. Peter Meyer is not my favorite guy on the planet, but he made a good point there. Here's the other thing. Abdul's calling for mass amnesty, folks. Mass amnesty.

They will flood the border again. They will invade this country again. Do not give them power. Get motivated. It's all about enthusiasm. Do not give these crazy lunatics power to flood our borders again. Every single ounce of progress you've made that you're going to undo it in a blink. It's way easier to undo the progress we made than to establish the progress to get ICE agents out there.

It's incredibly difficult to fix the problem. Really easy to create it. I think we need a pathway to citizenship for folks who are stuck in limbo right now. You've got this tough guy attitude to immigration that's not keeping us safe. In fact, it's terrorizing folks in our streets. It's not funding the southern border, which needs to be kept safe. But what it is doing, it's weaponizing an agency of the government at the tune of Donald Trump and his group. Okay, okay.

So you see that? The guy's a total radical. Total radical. Sat 12. Or yesterday was October 7. This is why you should get absolutely angry. He could not bring himself to even acknowledge the pain, the terrorism, the rape, the murders, cutting off of women's breasts, putting children in ovens, and killing them in front of their families.

Could not even muster. So I've condemned that. And he could not even muster. I've condemned that. I didn't turn into political theater like you just did. He did not. All right, let me tell you this. I just need to.

No, no, no. He's interrupted me for about half of my time. So I'm so sorry. But I'm not somebody who tries to make political theater out of other people's pains. Your whole campaign is political theater. And you turn it into political theater. I'm sorry. Including putting on a white jacket.

That's a gentleman. Gentleman. Shainful. Including putting on a white jacket and calling yourself a doctor. That's a whole other area of the controversy. Was he even like a real doctor? I've missed this one actually. I got to dive into that one.

He sort of, he got the degree. Did he ever treat patients in reality is sort of the other. allegation. So I mean, it's probably some. The truth is probably somewhere in between. But yeah, I mean, the guy's a, he called him a con man last night. I was hoping it would be that he had like a Jill, the Jill Biden doctorate. He's a doctor of like Middle Eastern studies or something like that.

Yeah. I mean, this guy, he doesn't want to condemn the Ayatollah. Listen, you don't have to enjoy, you don't have to like the war in Iran to understand the Ayatollah was not a good guy. Okay. Killed Americans. Nuff said. All right. He, buddy, buddy with Hassam Piker.

says he's a dual citizen, then he claims he's not. Okay, what's that about? Spend his summers in Egypt. He's got a luxury home in the United Arab Emirates. He's buddy, buddy with care. He's getting money from a lot of groups that funnel money to terrorists. Okay, there is a lot of smoke, which means there's a lot of fire. Okay.

Abdul El-Sayed is a freaking disaster. And if we can't muscle up the courage and get our people out to vote against that guy, just got bigger problems. All right, bigger problems. We will have bigger problems because what we've heard when we've talked to people is that he is absolutely a person who is ambitious enough to think, oh, he wins this race. I want to run for president in 2028. Yeah, even though he's an anchor baby. So if we if we can't stop him from being Michigan's problem, he will soon be all of America's problem in a big way.

He thinks he's Obama. He thinks he's a slick talking Obama guy and he's not. He's like five, six. And he's, you know, barely American. And also, let's be real, Obama at least tried to run. Ooh, I'm going to be more centrist. This is a guy. He wants to abolish ice.

He's talked about that. He's all on board with a lot of the really radical left-wing positions that, again, is why he can't disavow these things because so much of their base wants it. Everything that you didn't like in 2020, 2021 is coming back the second Democrats have the ability to impose it on people. Biden wave is back. Actual socialism stuff is back. Woke terror is back. It will be here. October 15th, write it down, set an alarm because the second that date passes, there's no extension,

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before October 15th. 888-381-3816. Mention the code Kirk 26 when you call for $250 off. We've got Mark Halperin, the great Mark Halpern, editor-in-chief of 2-A-TV, host of Next Up on the Megan Kelly Network,

joining us. Mark, we finally made it happen, my friend. We made it happen. It was Harry. I got to get out of the middle of this. Did you forget to send the scheduling email? No, no, no. I sent it.

And Mark was like, man, you got to send the email. I was like, Mark, I sent the email. I was like, okay, my bad. I got you back this time. Oh, well, you got to copy my colleagues. Honestly, though, I'm glad to be here. Interview is halted until Blake, you get Andrew to tell us.

What are the other three good non-Western countries? I'm not going forward to you tell us. On the spot. I'll be honest. I think there's like, there's actually like maybe like, I enjoy Thailand. But it's only going to be around about 10 years and then it's going to disappear. Which one? South Korea. They're pretty good. But they have no babies. So it's just going to disappear like the else. I like Thailand a lot actually. I like Japan. I still consider Taiwan. Singapore.

Yeah. I was, you know, to be honest. Singapore is the last British country in the world. You made up the number four. Yeah. You know, the other thing. Yeah. Go ahead. No, no. You're the, you're the guy. I was going to say. I was going to say the other thing I need to comment on is I love when you guys talk about Hillsdale and history and intellectual topics because one of you is a superficial cretan and the other one is a learned scholar and it's so funny it's so funny it's so funny I'm not saying which is which it's just so funny is that you try to keep the conversation going when you're playing on different planes well I'm not saying which is which I listen listen one of us is relatable to the average man the other is an autist who went to Dartmouth and he's not saying which is witch. I'm not saying which is witch. Yeah. Well, that was biographical. No, you're both geniuses. You both could probably graduate from Hillsdale in three and a half years. Max. I would like to think I could pull it off in at least seven. Hey, Mark, so the big story right now, the big story, they're called doctors, Mark, like Dr. Elsaid. The big story right now is in Dr.

Joe Biden, Talrico, okay? I don't want to get in the mud with the pigs. I don't want, I mean, listen, if he's having the big rumor right now is that he had a mental. episode and that he had to sort of check out. Okay. I'm not, you can log on. I'm not saying it's true or not. Yeah. My heart goes out to him. I don't wish him any ill will. But if that's true, then that does have implications on the race. What are you hearing? Yeah. And help us separate fact from fiction here. I haven't had James Tala Rica right here. James, come in. Um, no, it's not here. Nobody knows where he is. Look, the most likely explanation is some combination of preexisting condition, maybe his diabetes, and flu has just laid him low. And it's, you know,

it's hard to campaign. I remember Bill Clinton got the flu and a cold in 92. And, you know, he had troopers and state plane. Like, he had a lot of infrastructure. It was still hard for him. And he's a beast to go around. Calarico doesn't really, you know, he's just a, you know, state center. He doesn't have, like, a lot of infrastructure. So that's probably it. My theory, which was shot down today by someone in the know, is that he's like in Sanford, Francisco raising money and, you know, doesn't want people to know he's flying a private, private plane out of state to a liberal enclave. But that was shut down by somebody who I think probably would know.

He does have a preexisting condition. He does have diabetes. I know a lot of people right now with the flu seems to be going around. So that's probably the answer. But I also think he's raised a monster number in the third quarter. Don't sleep on the notion that he's trying to build up a lot of suspense. So when he announces he's raised, you know, $75 million. it's going to get more attention.

That could be true. That could be it. That's a theory. And then the last thing is, you know, race is going pretty well for him. It's gotten tighter. So maybe this isn't a good strategy. But just as some Republicans would say the party would be better off of the president just, you know, laid low. Maybe he thinks if he lays low, the whole campaign's about Paxton and that's going to win it for him.

So he's just sort of staying behind the scene. be my theories, but like most of people you know, I know nothing. Does it at least strike you as weird that for example, we just haven't gotten the TikTok Twitter video of like, hey guys, hello, I still exist? Because some people have brought

that up, like even if he's sick, he could make an I don't know that he's, if I'm right that he wants a big splash your return, I don't know why he needs to prove it. Assuming he's alive soon. I don't know that there's any reason to cater to likes of

of his opponent and others who say, well, if you're alive, prove it. Like, whatever the reason is, he obviously doesn't want to prove it, assuming he's alive or assuming he could make such a video. So I don't read much into that. Okay. Well, Paxton is taking advantage of it. Let's go ahead and throw up 144. Wanted proof of life. This is from Ken Paxton's own X account. So they're having some fun with this. They got the where's Waldo one, 139. But it's that where's Jimmy? day 12, right? But again, these are cute

and they're great for conservative talk. But so what? Like this isn't about the price of gas. This isn't about Tala Rico's conditions on trans. Like there's a story

in the Washington Post today that ran this morning. That clearly came from the Paxon campaign about the flip-flopping he's done on transit. It quotes a trans activist saying, we trust him.

We know he's just taking this position for the election. But when he gets in, we know it'll do the right thing. That story would begin a lot more attention if we all weren't sitting around and talking about where he is. So maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe Paxton should be spending less time saying, you know, proof of life and more times saying this guy's a chameleon and a liar on trans issues. So fair enough, the, I think if you looked at the discourse right now about the state of the race, midterms are just right around the corner. Ballots in Arizona are out. People

are going to start doing early balloting. A lot of people are looking at tea leaves, right? So they're saying, Okay, the polls are one thing, but we have this registration advantage. And from some of the early returns, there's some promising returns for Republicans. But then there's the whole polling narrative. Cook Political Report will play this. I know you're very well aware of it. SOT 7. The nonpartisan Cook Political Report, some breaking news here, just today shifted three more Senate ratings in Democrats favor.

The highlight, Kansas, which now moves from lean Republican to toss up. You can also see that New Hampshire goes from toss up to lean Democrat, North Carolina from lean to likely Democrat. And you even see South Carolina is in a likely. It's not even a lockup. And I think it was Nebraska. I mean, so obviously, if you look at the polling mark, Republicans, this is not a great cycle based on the polling. But then people are saying, hey, look at the early returns. And you had a tweet that I actually sent around to a bunch of people yesterday. and if you could throw it up, it is 1.45. You said, you said, voting behavior. This is one picture, picture of my cat. No, okay. You quote tweeted yourself. Voting behavior is changing and it's misleading to compare this election to any recent one pre or post pandemic early in male voting paint a completely new, may paint a completely new storyline this time. What do you mean there, Mark? Well, just parenthetically, stop looking at the public polls. I tell everybody this, particularly people who are skeptical about them.

pay attention to them. They're not very good. The real problem for Republicans in the House is the private polling is very bad. The Cook Political Report, you showed that they moved from Senate races. Today they moved 18 House races all in a Democratic direction. And the Cook Political Report doesn't rely on public polls. They talk to the campaigns, as I do. That's a much better way to understand what's going on. I think the House situation continues to be dire. The Democratic situation, the Senate situation has improved in the last two weeks for Republicans. The early vote. It's, you know, COVID, right, was a thing that it impacted the early vote. The president's failure until recently and not consistently to urge Republicans to vote by mail and in person early.

It's not clear that there's going to be a trend or a pattern that you can read from 20, 22, 24 that's going to inform the numbers here. Remember, early votes don't count for more. There's reasons campaigns like to bank them, but they don't count for more. And somebody who's going to vote no matter what, regular voter. It doesn't matter if they vote early. And the culture within both parties now is such that you may see Republicans doing better than two years ago or four years ago in the early vote. It doesn't, I wouldn't read too much into it. It's not, it's not impossible that it could be meaningful, but there's no way to know because of the lack of historical continuity here on this issue. Yeah, I mean, I will tell you, Charlie was a big part of changing the culture around voting.

Vote early. Yes. Our movement's too big to be jammed in one day. What if you get a flat tire? what if there's a snowstorm? So Charlie was part of changing the culture, so we don't know that we can rely on as much election day vote as we could in the past. People could just be changing the way they vote. 100%. And then again, you've got the leader of the party without Charlie, the president. Some days he says everybody vote early and everybody vote by mail and let's thank those votes.

And then other days he says it's all corrupt. Don't do it. So the app, I do believe. And I think this is one of the, along with the financial advantage and the fact that red states in the end could just read. And that could save a lot of these House and Senate seats narrowly, but still save them. I think the other thing is Republicans because of the legacy of what you guys have done. Some of the other folks, some of the stuff, Elon's done. Republicans seem to have a much better turn out the vote, get out the vote operation, ballot, you know, ballot chasing to make sure people hang them in them in.

And that could be the difference in some of races if they're close. Well, I mean, I will tell you, Katie Hobbs came out with the new internal poll yesterday. She's up just four now. So the lead is shrinking. People are calling it a collapse for her. Bigs, Undecided's breaking for Biggs, two to one. And we've got 25% larger army on the ground here in Arizona than we did even in 2024. We feel very confident we can chase three to five points there of low props.

Yeah. So anything can happen. For example, in Arizona, it's all about turnout. All right. Mark, you said that. in some ways, Republicans are feeling a little bit more bullish about the Senate. The House may be in a worse spot, but the Senate is, we're feeling better about it. Okay. It could be one of these weird maps where you get, you know, New Hampshire pickup, you get the main holds. You never know what's

going to happen in Minnesota. That could just be an outlier because of all the fraud and all the terrible stories that are coming out of Minnesota. I was in D.C. recently, and there, I will tell you, get you have all these meetings you talk to these people and you kind of find out what they really believe and there's a lot of energy behind michigan people there's a lot of people saying hey go get involved in michigan go get involved in michigan we think we can upset there i'm not convinced but that debate last night i actually thought mike rogers comported himself well and prosecuted the case against elsie had pretty effectively even cnn had some great clips what's your read on the senate um i think there's going to be at least six races that are going to be toss-ups until

election day, no matter what the public polling says. There's just too much uncertainty because of the use, I suggested into characterizing a few of the states, just the cross-cutting, both within individual states and between states of cross-crutting trends and dynamics. You got to hold up with a possibility there's a blue tsunami of some size. And if that's the case, these other factors, we talk about the money, the ads, the debates, the turnout operations. It's not going to matter.

Most of the Republican seats will be washed away. And that could be up to eight seats, honestly, maybe nine. If it's not a blue tsunami, in other words, if the conditions are such that Republicans can survive, even in the face of a strong Democratic year, then I think places like Texas, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, and Ohio, those all may be salvageable. And Ohio even?

Ohio's the toughest one right now because some people think it's gone for the Republicans and other people think there's been improvement lately. The governor's race is a problem for Republicans and that obviously has an impact. But I'd say Ohio and Kansas right now besides North Carolina are the two most endangered.

But my point is, the red states may just sort of reassert their redness if Republican candidates can close strong. And in most of these races, besides Georgia and North Carolina, Republicans have good candidates, Texas as well, problem. So today I would say I've gone down from about 75% chance Democrats take the majority in the Senate to about 60. But it's going to be very difficult because of all these races that are going to go into election day is not clear who's the frontrunner. Okay. So that's, I think a fair assessment. 60% odds have taken. Okay.

That's very interesting. Okay, so Michigan. Let's go into the debate last night. Did you watch it? What was your reaction to it? And how do you see that particular race playing out? It's really just about whether Elsaid can get the percentage of the Blackbone, Wayne County that he needs.

That's really it. If he does, he'll win. If he does and he won't. And the Rogers campaign is really doing a good job of taking advantage of the asymmetrical edges that he has, including the vulnerabilities of the Democratic candidates. but it's still a democratic state in a blue year and it's still the case that uh you know although some democrats including a group democrats for rogers are are just not willing to accept this guy as their nominee um other other democrats like barra obama rallying around him there's lots of stuff

that happened in the debate i want to point out one thing which i think shows you why else that has an advantage and i this is the topic of my monologue on next up on the issue on the episode that's out now the press bias in the last month of the campaign is a real challenge for Republicans because they're fighting two on one. The debate last night, you know, there were lots of things that happened. But one thing that happened was Al-Sad was asked something he'd been asked in the previous few days, who's a beggar threat to America's national security? Israel or Iran?

10 years ago, if you were asked that question in a debate, no matter what party you were in or what state you wanted to represent, if you didn't instantly say Iran, it would be the gaffe, the century and you'd lose the race. El-Sahad said, I'm not going to answer that. It's a hypothetical. And then he mostly proceeded to trash Israel. My point is, go read the coverage in the national media. Go read the coverage in Michigan. People aren't highlighting that moment. And it should be disqualifying. It should be, although it's clear from the reaction that public mood is such that it's not disqualifying. But as a matter of qualifications to be United

state senator if you really can't answer the question of Israel our strongest ally in the middle east is more or less of a national security threat than Iran i find that disqualifying and yet it's barely in the coverage yeah we have the clip here mark let's just go ahead and play it for our audience not 10 i'm going to ask you again tonight who do you think's a bigger threat to the united states israel or iran you have 60 and again rick i'm just going to say that that's a ridiculous hypothetical because here's what's happening right now our ostensible ally in israel has lobbied us to go to war with Iran. We have watched as Iran has responded by bombing all kinds of countries in the Middle East

and then choking off the world's energy supply. So this is a situation in which I don't think we should be a part. I don't want to be pushed into war by Israel. Yeah, and Canada, I can see that argument really resonating with some groups. Yeah, unfortunately is. Blake's learned enough to know that it's not a hypothetical. That's not a hypothetical question. It's a factual question.

Who's a bigger threat? but he continues to hide by and say it's hypothetical. Again, even if you say, as you just did, a lot of voters, including young voters, might say that's a good answer. In all these roundups, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, these rounds, five big moments, five takeaways from the debate. They don't even mention that moment. They don't even mention it.

It's a big problem for Republicans in Michigan and elsewhere, that that's not at least a topic of discussion for voters to know he said that, given an opportunity to clarify. by incredible to me yeah mark halperin next up uh two-way tv doing a great job mark appreciate it thanks guys love you both glad we made this happen before he ever stepped onto a debate stage or behind a microphone charlie understood something really important that if you want to lead you first have to learn charlie believed that ideas shaped character conviction and courage that's why he spent years studying the classics the american founding and the bible through hillsdale

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Danny, who's up first? We got Jonathan. Jonathan, please unmute yourself. Welcome to the show. Hey, guys. Can you all hear me? Yes, we can. Yes.

Awesome. I just wanted to ask in asking. around and see what are y'all's favorite national parks and if charlie had one all right oh man uh do you know if he had a favorite dan akadia and grand can yeah i think so he went on vacation to akadia at least once did he go multiple times did he go there every year uh yeah about once a year okay so yeah he loved acadia that's main along the coastline and then of course grand canyon he was a big uh we talked about this last week actually that he really loved uh he was a big advocate for go to the bottom of the grand Canyon. And I still have to do that. I've been there twice. That's probably a favorite of

mine. Like, I remember when I first went there, I messaged a friend of mine and I said that it was the eighth, ninth, and tenth wonder of the world. There's like a lot of beautiful things in America, but that is truly one where there is nothing else like it on the planet. And really stands out to me. Of course, I'm also a shill for my home state, so Badlands, very much worth visiting as well. Looks very neat. I've only ever been to the Grand Canyon. Really? In terms of national parks, yeah. Man, okay.

So some of you might remember that I was off on Thursday and Friday last week, and I'm just sending the team these pictures. I didn't know we were going to get this question. I would have them ready. But I actually took a four-day camping trip with my kids and some other dads. And it was awesome. It was all dude time, except, you know, I brought my daughter. It was, you know, daughters were there, too.

But it was all dads and their kids. And we went between Zion National Park and Bryce Canyon. Yeah, this is actual picture. I just got them this more. morning. So these are actually pictures for where we took these can ams up. So we, for four days, we're just mobbing around the desert, around the alpine, the canyon lands. These are actual pictures from our adventure. It was awesome. And there had been rain in the southwest. That's a real picture from it. So we were mobbing around in these canams going like 65 miles an hour down

these forest service roads, these public lands. It gave me a whole new appreciation, not just for my kids. I loved it. We had to put our phones in a in a lockbox. It was a complete digital detox. And my Twitter handle is still suffering from the algorithm hates me now when I came back. But that's fine. It was well worth it. And the so anyways, we come back and we didn't, I didn't look at my phone for four days, but I got to see some of the most beautiful land in the country. And it was completely desolate. We camped and there was nobody around. And it's right here. It's just in the southwest, the four corners region and the canyon lands. And it was, so wonderful and beautiful and it gave me a new appreciation for just what a heritage we have for

you know in america with these public lands that everybody can go use so i just so encourage you guys to go use them because we we live in a beautiful country and when you get out there and see it up close like that it's it's really special so anyways just a just a touch there and you've only been to what you got to see more zion is a must see in my opinion brice bryce kane have you been to bryce i have I've never been to any of the ones in Utah. I should go. I'm waiting. I really want those self-driving cars to become where you can literally go to sleep while it drives

you. Because once that happens, I'm buying a Tesla and then I can just say, drive me to Zion. I go to sleep. I wake up there because they're just far enough away for it to be too annoying to drive up there for like a weekend for me. Yeah. See, I can't sleep in a car no matter what anyway. Oh, you will learn.

We will build the sleeper car. I actually have a Tesla already and the full self-driving is legit. Legit. Legit. All right. Anyways. So it used to be terrible, but they've updated. And now it's like fantastic.

I don't even worry about it anymore. I'll just be really honest. All right. Who's up next? We have Abby. By the way, Glacier National Park is gorgeous too. Hey, guys. What's up?

Hello. Hey, Abby. Welcome to the show. I have a Bible question this time. Do you guys read physical Bibles? Yes. Yes, I have a physical Bible. It's the one I got my family.

I only read physical. Well, when I'm looking stuff up on the computer, sometimes I'll use the online stuff. But, no, when I'm reading for devotion time, it's got to be physical. I have to feel where I'm at. Okay. I've been trying to find another Bible that's bigger text, and I've only found one that's printed in the United States. The rest are printed in China or India, and they're full of errors and missing scriptures. So I was wondering if you guys have any knowledge on Bible publishers, yes.

That's so depressing Because I feel the Bible is such a well-established text You'd have to really screw up I almost makes me wonder I'm pretty sure I'm pretty sure I'm pretty sure I've looked through at least

Let me have I looked through At least 25 different Bibles It's all China and India So I just Do you guys have any knowledge I looked on Amazon I looked on Amazon I looked at Barnes & Noble

China and India I know that I know Crossway has a lot of Bibles and I believe they print in the United States. Church Bible publishers out of Longview apparently has them. God's Glory Bible. A lot of new King James for some reason,

the American publishers. That's the one I'm looking for. Okay, yeah. So apparently church Bible publishers, you can literally just go to churchbibblepublishers.com. They offer mid-size and large print King James version and New King James Version. Yeah.

Many covers are made by AA Leather in Florida. Yeah, I feel obliged to say, I think Charlie's favorite translation was English standard version. Yeah, ESV. So when we read quotes from it on air, I try to look up that version. My pastor did the same thing about 10, 15 years ago, said ESV is the best translation. I became a Christian on NIV, and I still, I remember more scripture out of NIV, so it's a little bit challenging for me. But ESV was our preferred version. But New King James is great.

Listen, read the Bible. And I will say. I mean, if it's accurate. I know we are emphasizing the superiority of a physical Bible, but if nothing comes to the standard you're looking for, if you need a larger print one, I will note that if you get an e-reader version, you can get every translation on it.

And then you can set the text so that it's larger. And I agree a physical version is absolutely the ideal, but I just want to make sure that you're just aware that that's a potential solution. you can get one of those like kindle-y readers. They'll have the screen so it's not glaring in your eyes and you'll still be able to go to sleep at night and all of that. So I just throw that out as an alternative that maybe you don't want,

but others who have the same problem might consider. Yeah, I would check out church Bible publishers. It seems to be the best one. They run a little bit more pricey for the big point, the big like font. But maybe if you're just buying one, maybe it's still worth it. You know what I mean?

Danny, who's up? We got Elizabeth. Elizabeth, please unmute yourself. welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show. Yes, hi. Thank you for taking my call. Absolutely. So the reason I was calling, I was super excited to see the Turning Point communities for people that are in university because I loved Charlie and his vision and really wanted to support it.

But I was a little bit lost because you had the four categories of young professionals, young families, first responders and minorities. And so if you're like Gen X and you're youthful and spirit, and exuberance, but technically don't qualify as young. Which community should you join? Probably families. Probably families. I feel like we're very aspirational

with that. Everyone's got a family. I wasn't able to have kids. Oh, well, that's okay. You could still, I mean, you have uncles and aunts and cousins. You have parents. Here, I do want to show this, I want to put this up here for people. We do, so you can check it out right now. It's a huge new thing.

We started like a month ago and we have over 600 communities already started. which is fantastic. So all you do is go to TPSA.com slash communities. TPSA.com slash communities. And as she just said, as Elizabeth said, you got RISE, which is the nation's largest minority conservative movement. So that's going to be the HBCUs, inner cities, all that kind of stuff.

Families dedicated to parents and caregivers raised in the next generation, which Elizabeth, I would argue you would fit just fine in that because you have a heart for this. young professionals so we have so many alumni that have graduated and they still want to be a part of the movement they still want to be involved so that one's blowing up young professionals and then heroes that service military veterans first responders all of those folks can join heroes so it's amazing across the board opportunity because after we lost charlie there was just such a outpouring of people that were like we want to be a part of turning point but we don't know how because it's a student organization and then we do have turning point action right and we have coalitions over there as well

but you know when maybe it's not a election year right what are you going to do so this is a way to plug into your local communities host events host speakers all that stuff we kind of are applying our chapter model to it so you guys can still do what the kids are doing and i mean it's a lot of young people in this too but they're out of school so i would i would say families elizabeth that makes sense to me we'd suggest that and i mean just god bless you for wanting to get involved I love it. Yeah. But you can either join a community that's already in your area.

I mean, it's brand new. So be a part of the ground floor here. Or you can start it yourself. So just go to tPSA.com slash communities and check that out. Everybody should give it a look. And I think it's a wonderful new product program that we're offering. And it's just it, the response has been overwhelming with very limited marketing, by the way. So it's fantastic.

Thank you, Elizabeth, for your question. Who's up next, Danny? We got Jen. Hi, guys. Hey, Jen. Howdy? Hey, so I've called in before, and I think you guys had given me a quote one time from Erica that she had talked about, like a velvet spine of steel, I think. I don't know if you remember that.

It's been a while ago. But you guys just kind of encouraged me to keep going, to be involved. I'm very passionate about education and school choice. I'm in Florida. And I was recently named the coalition lead for parents and teachers for Byron Donalds. He's running for Florida governor. Yeah. So I just wanted to say thank you.

You know, we're trying to keep parents in charge of their kids' education, whether that's homeschooling, whether that's private schools or micro schools or public schools, whatever that is. And his opponent, David Jolly, is really trying to restrict that, especially for homeschoolers and a lot of the dollars that help our homeschoolers here. So I just wanted to call and say thank you. you because honestly you guys kind of gave me that push and I'm finally here I'm doing it and it's you guys have been an inspiration Charlie's been an inspiration and you know now I'm here so I just wanted to say thank you and I'm hoping to kind of push Byron over the line you know especially in this area of education before the election but just wanted to call and say thank you what part of the state are you in by the way I'm on the east coast like St. Augustine Daytona Beach

oh awesome yeah well so we actually you inspired us too because I remember your call in and then we we ended up having byron on the show because you i started looking into that race it was basically a jump ball we're we're feeling a lot better about that race right now than we were when you called it's probably partly because people like you got off their couch and they got involved and they got inspired and they're putting their their feet to the pavement i just can't believe that they would they would not one step back for florida guys the state has become an absolute juggernaut and it's done it because it's had good republican governance for decades in a row at this point. And the polls, there's just a poll that came out yesterday that showed it was

tied 45 all. But if you look at the cross tabs, they have men going plus eight for Dems and women going plus eight for Republicans in the state of Florida. These people are like, oh, it's a close race. We think we're very, we're optimistic there. And it's thanks to people like you, Jen, who step up. Totally. And I will say, so Florida is one of those states that is a victim of its own success a little bit, Jen, because you had so many people move in. Just like with just like with, just like the legal immigration, you start dealing with that and you see rents come down? Well, the opposite is true. When you have such a mountain of people just come into a state, whether it's from California, New York, or wherever, you're going to have upward pressure on prices. So that's a challenge that

conservatives have to deal with in that state. And plus, you've got the hurricane stuff, you've got the insurance stuff, which is just a function of where you guys are at in the world and the way the hurricanes work. You tend to get hit by them a lot. So that's always going to be a problem. I don't care what solution anybody comes up with ensuring the state of Florida is just perilous business. But anyways, I think, I think here's the deal. Not one step back. Florida is an absolute gem of a state. It's one of the few states that's run well. I cannot imagine the Florida goes backwards. I just can't imagine it. I can't imagine it. And I've called some of my friends in the that panhandle area that is a little bit soft on Byron. And they're working on some things right now.

So I'm feeling very good about that state. Are you hearing a change, a sentiment on the ground? I think we've been feeling really, really good and seeing a lot of people coming out to things. And honestly, I feel like the momentum is there. So I feel like we're looking okay. I mean, I know some of the polls have come out. But so I feel really positive about it. And, you know, just these last few weeks hoping to push everybody if they want to go to

Byrondonalds.com or join our coalition, you know, for parents and teachers, keeping education in the parents' hands, that would also be awesome. You know, what the left wants to do with education is just a tragedy and what they've already done to education. So we're actually seeing a renaissance now, parents getting back involved, taking control back from these far left super-pack teacher unions that all they do is want to control your kids, trans your kids, indoctrinate your kids, and make sure they're not Christian, that they hate their country, and that you have to spend your money on it. And it's just so, so God bless you for what you're doing.

It's one of the most important things. If you guys listen to the show often, you know, I'm very passionate about breaking the back of the teachers union. So, Jen, you're a woman after my own heart, and God bless you. We're going to get Byron over the finish line. I really, really feel good about it. But keep working. We've got to run through the tape. And that's a good time to remind everybody, join us tpaction.com slash 100.

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and help bring more stories of faith courage and conviction to audiences around the world blake got an email question yeah i thought this would be a fun one to ask a darren emailed and asked i was just wondering who your favorite nflbts teams are i know charlie's were the bears i am a big colts fan since they were in baltimore

which that goes back a while my family lived in Maryland and when they moved to Indiana oh and then we moved to Indiana and one year later the Colts moved to Indiana so I feel God took a bit of Maryland with us so that's a deep tie that is a deep tie so I of course am a Packers fan so that was a fun beef to have with Charlie and of course we were honoring Mike Ditka today I will say there's a song that we play at every Packers event the Bears still suck and it says in it we wouldn't Mine seeing Ditka run over by a truck because the bears still suck. Oh, well, that's, I wonder if they're going to sing that still.

Oh, 100%. They play this weekend. The Bears play this weekend. I'll have to watch it. Well, you got to, but I bet it'll come. I bet there'll be like a classy, like, in remembrance of Mike Dick. Maybe we can do, maybe we can get like a Trump opera kind of more solemn version of it. My favorite team growing up was the 49ers, but then I already said this once today, but

Kaepernick thing, I've never gotten fully back behind him because. Kaepernick just ripped my heart out. But I do love George Kittle. I like Brock Purdy. I like Christian McCaffrey. I like Debo. I like Bosa. Like they've got a lot of players that I actually really like.

But I don't know. They've never repented and asked for my forgiveness after the Kaepernick. They have to send them a letter. Otherwise it doesn't count. Yeah. I mean, I'm kind of a Bears fan. I used to be much bigger of a Bears fan.

And then they drafted Caleb Williams, who's gay. And not allegedly, but also kind of really. So I'm not really. Hammy, bro. No, the allegations go way beyond just pulling his hammy. With the painting the nails. Paint his fingernail. He's worn dresses before.

You were wearing a dress? Oh, yeah. He cries after he lost in college all the time. Like, he's just an emotional guy. You can't lead a football team and be a beta male. And like, he's very talented. He also lost us at their backup game last year by himself. The backup QVs are doing better than you did.

Yeah, we're undefeated with the backup quarterbacks. So I'm kind of a Bears fan. I don't know. They also ruin. Justin Fields, who I loved. I don't know. Love, hate, relationship with them. College football is way better anyways.

Well, I don't know. I'm a little bit mixed on college football after the NIL. I just, I don't really care about. I've never cared about college football. South Dakota never had a good team when I was growing up. Well, that's another problem with me is Colin Kaepernick was the quarterback of University Nevada, which is where I would say, if I pull for anyone, it's probably for North Dakota State because there's a generalized Dakota pride.

Yeah, that's the only football team. And they do have Packers colors as well. I'll always say that. All right. Who's up next? We have Don. Don, welcome to the show. Please unmute yourself.

Hi, guys. I've got a couple of questions. Great. Okay, the first one is I read online that Riley and Riley at Utah University had their case dropped against by Utah. And I was wondering if you had any more information about that. Nope. That was the last I heard about it. I mean, we went hard.

Erica, bless her. She ensured that they had proper representation in the state of Utah. And I will tell you, the people that were helping them out were very connected. I think they made some phone calls and put the fear of God and some of these people at the admin. So that was great. And yeah, they dropped the case because, as you well know, I mean, for those listening who don't remember the story, they were out tabling. And some lefty lunatic came up with a cake that said, Happy Kirkiversary. They put it online. It went viral. The girl gets doxed. And then it's their fault. So that wasn't cool. That wasn't right. And then the admin came after them to potentially expel them. Well, we got them representation. The story went national. They are in a good spot. They're very, very safe and secure now. So we like those two a lot, by the way. And you know what my favorite part about that story is if you put up a side by side of the girl with the cake versus Riley and Riley, it was like, you know, pick your fighter, Western man.

Yeah, yeah, exactly. Who do you want to be representing your movement? Like these two All-American, great-looking kids, proud, respectful, very cheerful, courageous, despite death threats, doxing, all of this stuff. We were very proud of them, very proud to help them out in the way that we could and have them on the show and amplify their stories. So God bless them. But yeah, you said you had a second question.

Yeah, in a commercial that Charlie was in a little, a little, while ago, he said that the low in this, in 24, he said the low propensity, the lower you were, you, lower likely you were to vote,

the higher you, you, you were for Trump. I was wondering if that was still true or if that switched or yeah. So in general, the calculus is this. That Republicans used to be the more high propensity voter, right? And then in the ear of Trump, that

flipped. And so we would often lose in the generic polls and then on election day we'd catch right up, okay? And we would do better in the midterms than they would. That's all flipped. Famously, they'd switch as they got close to election day. They just went from all registered voters to the likely voters. And usually

that would be this GOP boost like in 2010. But the trend has been away from that because the GOP has shifted. We used to get a higher share of wealthier voters. Now we're a higher share of college educated. A lot of those people are very culturally left wing. They really got on board with Obama. They find Trump uncouth. Culturally, they dislike him.

They're much more pro-immigration, things like that. And so the trend has been towards lower propensity voters, more downscale voters, being more Republican. But they're also, I think, more likely to be independent, more likely to be people who swing back and forth in general. Also more likely to be like a little bit checked out, more libertarian. More likely to be young. Yeah. So this is, you know, this is a great opportunity to play this clip of Charlie talking about don't be a spectator. It's not going to be a spectator. I'm going to give it my all. And that's my call to action to you.

To be an activist and a participant for righteousness, for goodness, for truth and for beauty. Not to just sit idly by and say, up. It's all over. Jesus, set me up. Hurry up. I don't think that's biblical. I don't think that's biblical either. So if you are a low propensity voter, that's the time.

is now. The time for choosing is now. You've got to choose to work, to activate, to make a plan to vote, and get 10 of your friends to do the same. We cannot give the control of this country back to these lunatics. Not one step back, as I like to say. Not one step back. Absolutely.

Oh, did you say, I'm sorry if I missed something. I said exactly. You got to go after every voter if we're going to win this time. Yeah. Our real problem right now is that a lot of these people are cynical. They want to get blackpilled very easily.

And you have to reject that. You have to see the huge number of wins that have happened. You have to recognize the huge number of problems that are coming back. If we allow the left to run, run free again. If you want to see what happens, when the left gets exactly what it wants. You can go look at the UK. What's happening there now? You can go look at France.

What's happening there, Yoko? You can look at Canada. We are an incredibly blessed country in so many ways. and to say I am going to throw all of that out and throw in with all these other failing countries because of one or two issues where I'm very angry

or something that's going to be ultimately fixable like gas prices or beef prices those are real problems we are the problem solving party you are not going to fix those things by electing the problem causing party well and you don't even have to look there

you just have to look at four years under Biden they went after all the January 6 people they went after Trump tried to throw him in jail forever. They shot him. They opened up our border to the entire planet. We had malaise, inflation, rampant inflation, massive spending.

Look at 151. This was a conversation we had with some Canadian documentary filmmakers. We put this graph up here and you will see the tale of two parties. Canada went the way of Trudeau and they stagnated. Their GDP per capita stagnated.

And we had now well into our second Trump term and look at us. Look at our GDP per capita growth since 1991. We're closing down an 80% GDP per capita growth. Canada, sideways. That is what we're up against. You can pick your future here, America. Do you want Canada? You want that red line? Or do you want to see actual growth and opportunity in the American way? Like, it's just, I get why people can be frustrated about specific things, but we just have to harp on this point. It used to be there were successful red states and successful blue states and some failing ones. on each side. But now it's just everyone's voting with their feet. Everyone is getting out of blue states.

People flood out of New York. They flood out of Illinois. They flood out of California. They flood into the states that have had successful red state governance for the longest time. So people love to move to South Carolina, to Florida, to Texas, even the Dakotas. Trust me.

No one's moving to the Dakotas because they love the mountain landscape there. There's not enough of them. Not very many mountains. They're only moving there because those states work. They're moving there because those states have real economies that you can raise a family in where you can afford to do it. That's what we're trying to entrench for our country here. Absolutely right. We actually have this Kylie, let me know if you have it. The graph. This graph of counties in the United States that are Democratic or Republican. And basically all of the Republican county's population growth is from

domestic migration of people basically fleeing blue states to red states. And Democrat counties, they only grow because they have to keep bringing in foreigners. Yep. So, yeah, as you can see on the left, the international migration is the only way that Democrat counties grow. And then you can see how all of the domestic migration is in the negative for Democrats on the left. And then for Republicans, it's in the positive. Yeah, the sad part is that natural change is so low. So that's, that's not, that's also just young people move to cities and then they have their kids and then move out. Yeah, fair enough. everybody get off your couch go chase some ballots tpaction dot com slash 100 tp action dot com slash 100 be a part of

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All right. Who's our next, uh, our next time call it? Tim, welcome to the show. Please unmute yourself. Hey, guys. So I don't have so much a question is just some information that I'd like to pass along. Yes, please. We get a lot of requests. I think, you know, those of us that are involved get requests. Hey, would you be a poll watcher?

Well, I've been a poll watcher. I've been an election clerk and I've been an alternate election judge. And so I've learned a lot by doing that. A lot of the listeners may not know. Clarks are really, sorry, poll watchers are really restricted on what they can do. You can only talk to the election judge. You can observe, but you're kind of limit. And I was a poll watcher one time. I found out later the Republican Party was trying to call, but you can't use your phones in a polling place. But they're saying, hey, Tim, we don't have any Republicans in the polling place you're in. They're all Democrats. And by law, at least in Texas, and I'm sure this is everywhere, you're required to have representatives of both party working each election. But the problem is, a lot of times they don't have enough volunteers to staff all of the polling sites. And so I'm in a very heavily Democrat area.

And so I serve as an alternate election judge. And what that means is because in Texas, who runs that polling place is determined by how that precinct voted for the governor for the state of Texas. So if Greg Abbott got the most votes, Republicans control it. If his opponent got it, the Democrats run it. And so we have a polling places. Sometimes if we don't have enough Republicans, where every worker is a Democrat. And when I was a poll watcher, there were times we were the only. people in the polling place. There were no voters coming in. And so the poll watch I was with

who had done it before leaned over to me and said, this is where shenanigans can happen because this is when you can stuff a ballot. You're really hitting something important that in general, the left has a lot more parts of the country that are one like 95 plus percent Democrat where you can just have big precincts in these big cities where it's exactly as you say. It's so Democrat. It's very difficult to get Republicans to fill important posts. And yeah, that's exactly where shenanigans happen, especially when you have the extended counting that they like to have. Holding back ballots.

It produces more room for bad stuff to happen. And it doesn't even need to be centrally planned. When you add that amount of friction, it's easier for a rogue actor to do things. And I think the left is very aware of that. You don't need to plan for any fraudulent behavior. If you can just make it easier for your rank and file to nudge it here, nudge it there.

That's why they love ballot harvesting. So, Tim, how do people get involved if they find themselves in a Democrat heavy district? What do they need to do? What's the action plan? Yeah, contact your county, Republican Party. That's normally who's coordinating. Or you can go, in this case, I'm in Dallas County. You can go to the Dallas County Elections Department.

They're always looking for, you know, clerks and alternate election judges and just say, I'm willing to work. And I would recommend the first time you do it, just be an election clerk because there's more involved with, more responsibility with being a judge. As an alternate judge, I'm really just kind of a glorified clerk. But I did have one year, my Democrat judge came down sick and said, Tim, I need, you're going to be the election judge for that big. But what are your job as an election judge, Tim? So as an election judge, you're responsible for opening up the poll. I mean, assigning duties. And so signing out, how you guys are going to check in the voters. You guys are going to watch the ballot box. You guys are going to.

put out the signs and set up the polling place. You guys are going to welcome the voters in, tell them to turn off their phones, things like that. At the end of the day, then it's the process of closing down the polling place, which is much more involved than I would have thought. There are a lot of controls in place, but it usually takes us an hour and a half to two hours to shut down, kind of put every, package everything up, take it back to the drop off site. The other thing is, the election judge has to handle provisional ballots. And those are a pain in the neck, but because it's just there's more process involved in that.

But yeah, so that's that you're just kind of overseeing it. I mean, you are like, you're like an official judge. And I mean, you can call the police to have them. Every once in a while you get a somebody that just will not comply with,

you know, they come in with a shirt on that's got one of the candidates' names on it. And it's like, hey, you can't wear that in here. They'll put things like that. So you're kind of the official. overseeing it. God bless you, Tim, for doing that. I hope you've inspired our listeners to get

involved and help run these elections. We need conservatives at every single place within the apparatus of running our elections. We just do because, as you said, shenanigans happen. It is one of those vulnerabilities in the system. Be the solution. Plug the vulnerability up. Have eyes and ears on everything. Thank you, Tim. And you don't, yeah, and you don't do it for the money. You do, but you do get paid. Do it because it's the right thing and helps the country. That's All right, we have one more question to get to, I believe. So Anthony, two minutes. Let's go.

Hey, guys. By the way, Andrew, congratulations. I knew it. I knew he was going to talk about the Braves. No, no, no, I'm giving you congratulations. And I'm even standing up for the 31-year-old fan who got the foul ball who won't give it to the little kid. Did you see that? That was bad.

I did. Yeah. So I will, I agree. No, I don't like that when people tell their little kids that go get a foul ball from someone else. So you kind of answered my question with. another caller, but I'm going to probably give a suggestion. It's regarding the TPUSA community stuff. I heard it this morning on Fox and Friends when I was working out. You have the four sections, but a fifth section might be helpful to fix cultures within companies is to put like a professional

section where people, conservatives can network to look for jobs and maybe to help fix companies because I see it in my industry. For example, front offices of teams are very liberal. Walker rooms where players are are very conservative. Yeah. Yeah, well, we have the young professionals group. I don't know what the age limit is on that. But I think you should just do it for all people because I'm in my 40s,

and it would be nice to work with more like-minded people and not have to worry about, oh, I can't talk about a certain thing in the office if I'm a different company. Yeah, no, I mean, that's a great. great suggestion. I'll bring it up with Pierre, who's running it. But yeah, you mentioned that you saw it on Fox and Friends. Griff Jenkins actually came to HQ, I guess like a two weeks ago, 10 days ago, and interviewed all our program leads. So field team, it would be Andrew Seifer, Tyler Boyer. They're doing a part two on it actually on Saturday or Sunday. And it's going to be

all about like our election side of our work with turning point action. Tyler Boyer is going to have his big moment there. But I thought they did a great job on it. They walked. around the campus with Erica, saw the memorials and the statues, and it was a beautiful piece. I think you can check it out on socials. They have it all published there. But Anthony, God bless you, my friend. Good to hear from you again. That wraps it up for us. Until Monday, we'll see you then. For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to charliekirk.com.