35 Burst results for "RNC"
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Montage: Prominent Dems Question Elections Following Trump's 2016 Win
"This is a clip we've played that was a Montage. I forget who put it together. And they think it was RNC, maybe, or maybe news busters. Somebody put this clip together of the way some of the most prominent Democrats in America responded to Trump being elected in 2016. This is what they said. You remember this, the next time somebody calls you an election denier. Trump didn't actually win the election in 2016. He lost the election, and he was put in the office because the Russians interfered. Trump knows he's an illegitimate president. The president will elect the legally elected is not legitimately. I don't see the president elect as a legitimate president. You said you believe that Russia's interference altered the outcome of the election. I do. We have a president who is in fact it is proven. Has been assisted by the Russians and may in fact not be a legitimate president. The one thing that Trump is fearful of when it comes to is being president is that finally we will see how illegitimate his victory actually was. I have an objection. I object to the 15 votes from the state of North Carolina. I object because people are horrified. He's an illegitimate president. Do you believe Trump is a legitimate president? But I believe is that there's no question that the outcome of this election was affected by the Russian interference. But there are absolutely is a cloud of illegitimacy. So let legitimacy is the question, yes. So that was a very tainted election. And in that sense, it's illegitimate. Now, do you remember that? And incidentally, if you want that clip, you can get it. We'll send it to you. Just text the keyword fraud to the MyPillow text line at 806 5 5 mic
The Dan Bongino Show
Bad Administration Personnel Is Not Unique Issue to Donald Trump
"You had a Democrat versus Donald Trump It was a debate and Caitlyn Collins and CNN just got destroyed last night Absolutely wrecked Just wrecked But what are the lines of attack I saw a pop out this morning And again this is primary stuff People are I don't get into that I'm a Trump guy Again I've said it over and over We get that desantis is a fantastic governor but there's a lot of back and forth One of the hits on Donald Trump during the primary I discussed before as well He picked some bad people personnel wise Folks every single administration has done that It doesn't excuse it We should make better personnel decisions Period Complete full stop But that's not unique to Donald Trump Acting like that somehow disqualifying because Donald Trump made some bad personnel decisions is obscenely stupid George W. Bush wanted Harriet Myers on Supreme Court Harry admires remember that debacle I mean really You know we kept bringing Colin Powell back The guys no he's a Republican He's hasn't voted for a Republican in 50 years We've had our own we had Michael Steele once heading the RNC Michael Steele the guy yes you mean a guy on MSNBC raving like a lunatic about the conservatives that yes that guy So please spare me the my gosh Trump made bed but I get it Well we'll fix that I understand that People politicians make bad personnel decisions all the time
The Charlie Kirk Show
The RNC Titanic Approaches an Iceberg With Tyler Bowyer
"So Tyler, tell us an update from the RNC spring meeting. So we just got back from Oklahoma City, the RNC met for our spring meeting on the National Committee man for Arizona as most of our listeners are aware. But, you know, it was a very interesting circumstance that we had in Oklahoma City. They call this the training meeting, but a lot of individuals that were there, it was like walking on eggshells, I could tell a significant shift in the people who normally, I guess would suck up to the machine. In the RNC, completely shifted away from that. But what was most concerning about the meeting that most people need to be aware of is I was really let down. I actually put out a tweet last night that said, I'm really let down at the direction of what we're doing here because in every meeting that we had, there was not significant conversation around how we're going to win, what we're going to do to win. What were the pieces that were missing? You know, it's been now we're going on 5 months, almost 6 months since the election. And there's not a lot of answers that we can go back and tell our people. And you brought up the most important point here, which is the left is focused on building the infrastructure and the machine to win the office. And that doesn't take away from the defense. And that's kind of how I explain it to people out there. Look, you have a defensive side of the ball and you have an offensive side of the ball. The defensive side is election integrity. The RNC should be dominating at the election integrity front should be investing millions of dollars into protecting. But the RNC can't do just straight up can not do all the work that's necessary in order to put the offense on the field.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Is Michelle Obama Running in 2024? Here's Why It Doesn't Even Matter
"Question for you is, what are your thoughts about Michelle? About Michelle? Michelle. Michelle Obama? Yes. I mean, so she may or may not run. I have a different opinion than most people. And those of you that listen to the podcast know this. I don't think the candidates matter anymore. They've elected that they can get John fetterman to be a U.S. senator. Joe Biden is going to be tough to beat in 2024. He will. He is the favorite. We will probably lose. Because the RNC is completely incompetent and they are not doing their job. Because they have built a sophisticated election machine where they just chase ballots, they relax signature verification. And so if it's Michelle, if it's Gavin Newsom, if it's Joe Biden, they have a multi-billion dollar machine that they have built. So my advice to you, grassroots folks. I say this is a Trump guy. I want Trump to be the nominee, obviously. Let's focus more on our machinery we have in Arizona, Georgia and Wisconsin. The RNC is doing next to nothing on this. Nothing. And if it's Michelle, okay, if it's Gavin Newsom, we need to stop acting like these are elections the way they used to work in the 1990s. I'll give you one piece of example for this. In 2018, Georgia had 248,000 people vote by mail. This last midterm election, Georgia had 2.4 million people vote by mail. It's a different type of an election. And I don't like mail in ballots. I want to get rid of mail in ballots. We are going to keep on losing elections. We are going to be displaced from power if we do not make some serious changes. So
The Charlie Kirk Show
Matt Walsh Challenges the Trans Notion of Womanhood
"Charlie. What is a woman? What do you think about Matt Walsh's online film where he goes around asking this question? What is a woman? Just look at the chromosomes. So XX chromosomes is what a woman is. And a woman is someone that not that hard. I've praised Matt Walsh repeatedly. I think the world of him. And I think that Matt Walsh has done one of the most effective and quite honestly one of the great services to challenging the trans nonsense that is dominating our country right now. And with the alphabet mafia has done to our country is they're able to terrorize us under this false, this false paradigm of tolerance and I want to emphasize something I've said earlier and for those of you that follow my commentary, I'm very forceful on the trans thing, not because I want to be. I mean, if somebody has their own imaginations of their own existence, I'm not going to police people's imaginations. That's not what the trans thing is about. The trans thing is about them forcing us to agree with their own war on reality. And that is not acceptable at all. Is that you can have your own imagination, okay? You can sit in a room and think that you're something you're not. You can think you're a unicorn. You can think you're rich, you can think you're skinny. You could think you're fast. You could think you're an Olympic athlete. Nobody here is going to police daydreams, right? That's the other side. What we will draw a line on is when you then make us conform or intimidate us or slander us the moment that we think you're daydream is insane.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Florida's Anti-Semitism Bill: Threat to Free Speech?
"Go to the first question. Hi, Charlie. Huge fan. Thank you. So you are talking earlier about desantis world tour. He's going to Israel, Japan. Yes. All these places. And you mentioned the election integrity Bill. That's going to be waiting on this desk. We never really touched on the anti semitism Bill. That desantis signed one he was in Israel. What kind of implications would that have on floridians on their First Amendment rights? Yeah, you know, that's a good question. I don't know the language of the bill and I'm obviously no fan of antisemitism, very pro Israel, but I'm not big into giving government extra powers that could police speech. And I go to my friend Dennis prager who is a free speech warrior who's also one of the most, I think prolific writers of Judaism, he doesn't like censorship laws, and I certainly don't either. So I think the law is probably well intentioned. I think Joe hatred is disgusting and evil and vile. With that being said, who gets to define hate, the anti defamation league, so the ADL can come after me and say that. So look, I think Zhou hatred is from the pit of hell. But I also don't trust the government to have these overreaching powers. And so again, I need to read the bill and study it, but my solution is generally right now to be an absolutist with speech. And not to say that the government should be able to do it. And so two things can simultaneously be true, that anti semitic language is on the rise and it's wrong and evil and Jew hatred shouldn't be tolerated, but also do we want to give the government police power if you have a blog post or a Twitter post. I mean, the anti defamation league, the ADL comes after me and calls me an anti semite. It's laughable.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Who Will They Silence Next?
"They're not interested in convincing you or having dialog with you. They must have a culture of censorship. It's now been two days since the bombshell news. Tucker Carlson was abruptly fired by Fox News, but apparently reporting is showing that he's still under contract, they might lock him up for the next couple of years. It's very complicated and more news will come out. It seems as if there's an editorial shift occurring at Fox. This is not about personality disputes or lawsuits. You lose Bond Geno, you lose Tucker. Is there an editorial change happening? Do they want to become RNC TV? That is a serious question. But let's take a step back and start to identify the actors, the organizations that are now celebrating the departure of Tucker Carlson. And we predicted this on Monday. We said the great cheerleaders for neoliberalism are going to be enthusiastically happy. In fact, we said on Monday that they were popping champagne at the war machine, Raytheon, Department of Defense, they will be thrilled that Tucker Carlson is no longer on television. People are saying that it was over maybe January 6th, possibly or the dominion lawsuit possibly, but it seems as if this is actually more ideologically driven than any of these other issues. Tucker Carlson was doing big ratings. Tucker Carlson was driving people to the network. You have to wonder that this became awfully personal for those in charge that they didn't see the world the way Tucker Carlson saw the world. As we said on Monday and it's worthy of repeating a Tucker Carlson was by far the most effective critic of neoliberalism on television in the last 50 years. I mean, TV didn't exist before that.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump Pitches Mail-In Voting and Ballot Harvesting for Every State
"At the president's or president Trump's, I should say, speech at the RNC summit, but we do have the leaked bit to Politico. I haven't I have a few texts out. I haven't gotten a full transcript of the year, but I should be getting the full at least prepared remarks. But Politico did report that he specifically gave a full throated pitch for ballot harvesting AB chase, mail in vote operations and every single state that it's legal. And I think that's absolutely the way to get there. But to your point, Charlie, those are not cheap. They don't come for free. Obviously, the RNC is completely incapable to do that. And it's just, by definition, an organization headquartered in Washington, D.C. that spent $700,000 on flowers and 17 well, this is what the DNC and donor mementos go ahead. Well, I was going to say, this is what they did on the left. In essentially sort of during 2016 and then predominantly after, was that they basically decided to start bypassing the DNC. So if you look on the left, they downsized it. There's 5 or 6 5 or 6 billionaires that control everything and they're not dumping money into the DNC and their projects. Yeah, so just sorry to interrupt, but DNC is a thing. Go ahead. DNC's 40 million. A cycle, RNC is 440 million. Right. And so it doesn't mean they're not spending money. My point is they decided that the structure doesn't work for them anymore. So it's there as a figurehead. Sure, and they put the logo up with the debates and at the convention, which are having in Chicago, which is just absolutely hilarious. They live in a fake reality. And they have these outside groups and super PACS and dark money groups. The very same thing that they used to rail against. This was like Elizabeth Warren's whole career was based on attacking these things, but actually know that's what the national Democrats have realized is that they want to be pouring money. It's like when you look up the Soros prosecutors and you're trying to find, okay, who did George Soros give money to? And it's actually very complicated how the money goes through because there's this group and then they have a 5 27 that they move the money to and there's a statewide group and the names like one word off from the other name. So you're not sure if it's the right group until you pull the 9 90. It's this massive shell game that they've created.
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
FLWR Shop Declines Jobs From Republicans Until More Gun Laws Pass
"All the Republicans are coming into town this weekend. You've got president Trump is going to be in Tennessee, former vice president Mike Pence, a massive RNC fundraising event. And so they're having it in Nashville and clearly the RNC, they've got some pretty deep pockets. And so they're reaching out to locally owned small businesses and saying, hey, you know, can you provide this service or that service? They reached out to a flower shop. And it's actually called the flower shop. That's the name of the shop. The flower shop, would you write that down? Shop. So anyway, the flower shop, they reached out to the Nashville based florist, and they said, hey, we'd like to hire you to provide floral arrangements for our big meaning. And so the owners of the flower shop actually wrote back to the RNC, and they basically told them up yours. The flower shop wrote a letter, and I want to read this to you. They said we immediately declined this opportunity, and we want to take a moment to publicly clarify our stance as small business owners in Nashville. We would like to challenge others and the Nashville event industry to say no to taking money or jobs from the Republican Party until they begin to make the changes to gun laws that most Americans are calling for. Okay, well, first of all, who is calling for more gun laws? We've got plenty of gun laws already on the books. Why don't you try enforcing those? But anyway, the flower shop got their pansies in a twist because all these Republicans are coming to town, and it wasn't good enough for them to say, we're not doing business with you. Now they're telling all these other businesses, you can't do business, you should not do business with the Republicans.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Robby Starbuck Describes the Failures of the Republican Party
"Welcome back to the program. Your thoughts, RNC, the failure of the Republican Party, I see so much good happening in the conservative movement. Robbie, I see your voice being amplified. I see great people like Matt Walsh and Candace Owens, Dan bongino, big podcasts that are growing and that are strengthening I see rumble. I see the media space actually healthier, almost than any other time. I've been doing this in ten years. But I see the party sicker and weaker than ever before your thoughts. You're absolutely right, Charlie. And it's really this gulf between the reality of the base of our party versus the people in control of our party. It honestly seems kind of like the people in charge, professionally want to lose. I don't know another way to describe it because some of the things going on are just entirely nonsensical. When you look at the results of recent history, you know, just look at Wisconsin this week. We're not even close to winning that Supreme Court race, okay? We got obliterated there. And it's a byproduct of really just having no activation on the ground. When you have a Twitter account, beating you, it ground game, literally. I saw Scott pressler one guy on a Twitter account doing more to flip that race than I saw the national GOP app. And just so we're clear, Ronald Romney and the RNC. They wouldn't even call Scott back. That's a fact, Scott said, I call them. I try to do stuff. They want nothing to do with them. How's that possible, Robbie? It's ludicrous. And it look backwards, okay? Who was registering voters for 2020? Who went out there gas stations and got people out all over the country to go to their own gas stations to activating these people at the grassroots to go and register voters to vote Republican. It was Scott. I wasn't the GOP. The GOP did a tiny version of this later on after Scott already proved it successful,
The Charlie Kirk Show
Tuesday Was a Bad Day for Conservatives: Tyler Bowyer Breaks It Down
"Joining us now is Tyler Boyer turning point action. People listen to Tyler, the country would be freer, Tyler, welcome back. Hey, Charlie. Yesterday was an awful day. Chicago aside, I'm going to cover that later. The arraignment we did a whole hour on that. But Wisconsin, I mean, we tried to warn people we were on the ground at turning point action. What did the RNC do in Wisconsin? Well, look, I want to make this abundantly clear. Our regional manager that's in Wisconsin is the first vice chair of the Milwaukee GOP, the Milwaukee GOP now has more conservative leadership than it's ever had. And our other representatives, the dean county GOP chair. Just barely elected. I mean, these guys got elected just like weeks ago. And so they have eyes on the ground. They have knowledge, they're in the middle of everything that's two largest counties. And the word on the ground is not enough is being done, and we saw, and we heard the Democrats have spent tens of millions of dollars, and Wisconsin. Well, the question is, well, what are they spending the money on? There's two buckets. Bucket number one is the Democrats are spending money on making sure that they get the TV. The TV buys? And then bucket number two is they're getting the geo TV operation. Aka the ballot chasing operation to make sure that they're lower propensity voters are getting turned in. So what did the RNC do? Look, I'm not here to speak on behalf of the RNC. But I can just tell you, obviously, with the results that we saw, not enough. And this is the problem that we have right now in the movement that we've been saying over and over and over that we've been warning about. Which is this conversation, which is you can't tell everyone you're going to do the entire job. And then not do the job.
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Monica Crowley: RNC Offices Don't Put in the Work, Money
"State Republican organizations are by and large useless, the national Republican organization, the RNC is by and large useless. So they can whine all day long about messaging or this particular issue or that. But they simply don't put in the work and they don't put in the money. And we are being outfoxed in every direction. And look, it's one thing to say, okay, well, we lost a big election, let's say, in 2020, we lost a big election there. So now let's figure out what went wrong. What we did do right what we didn't do wrong and what we didn't do period and figure that out. So by 2022, we're in a better position. They do none of that. I mean, I vote Republican, but honestly, I can't stand my own party because the powers that be in the party are by and large uni party members, Todd, that work with the Democrats for the destruction of the country, but for their own empowerment and enrichment. They get rich. And they gain more power while the rest of us are left holding the bag and our country is going down the tubes. So I find the entire GOP establishment and the infrastructure completely useless, maybe worse than useless. So, you know, she can go around and blame whatever she wants, but she is at full as a state GOP and Wisconsin. It's really appalling. So we've had that development, Todd, and then of course we see what happened in Chicago, which is a deep blue place. They bounce blurry lights up because the spiking crime and the fact that people are fling in droves and we thought for a minute, wow, even the big democratic voters in Chicago have had enough. Well, they had a chance yesterday to put in a more moderate Democrat who was going to be Law & Order and they chose instead the raving Marxist.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The GOP Is Keeping Silent on the Wisconsin Supreme Court Election
"Today is the runoff or not the runoff. It is the actual end election date for the Wisconsin Supreme Court. The RNC is not talking about this nearly at all. I don't know what they're doing. D.C. Republican groups are not talking about any of this. The future of Wisconsin and potentially the future of our republic goes right through Wisconsin. We're going to talk about this throughout the hour, but if you are in Wisconsin, you have a moral obligation to go vote today. If you know somebody in Wisconsin, text them, call them. If we lose the Supreme Court in Wisconsin, it's going to be very difficult to win Wisconsin in 2024. The D.C. Republican groups aren't mentioning it at all because I don't know what they're doing. They're bought and paid for week as ever. Gutless wonders, waste of rations.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Vivek Ramaswamy: A Cultural Campaign to Restore Our National Identity
"And that's what this campaign is all about. It is not even a political campaign. It is a cultural campaign to restore a missing national identity. And I think that's the secret to actually addressing our real challenges, unleashing the American economy, unleashing the power of American productivity, taking on China on the global stage, we can do these things but only if we believe in ourselves here at home and right now what happens is we have this black hole of a vacuum in American life where woke ism climate is gender ideology. They will fill the void when you have this black hole of meaning and purpose at the heart of the American soul. What I'm doing is we need to fill that void of purpose with something more meaningful. A rich vision of national identity and if we do that and only if we do that, then can we take on the economic and foreign policy challenges that we face? And I'm running for president because I think it's going to take a real outsider to actually be able to do this job. Donald Trump was a real outsider back in 2015 and 2016. I give him credit for what he did. You get to be an outsider once. At the end of the day, now we need a fresh perspective of somebody who can really call out and I've been doing this even this relates to the Silicon Valley bank situation relates to a lot of the corruption in the RNC. I am going to be the number one fighter in this country against corruption at every level. Corruption in the federal government, corruption in the woke industrial complex in the ESG movement, even corruption within the Republican National Committee and the Republican Party itself. I will not take any, I will not hold back any punches. And the reason why is I'm not beholden to some donor class. You know, I've lived the full arc of the American Dream. I didn't ring a tin can asking for Republican donors for permission to run. I'm going to do this by speaking truth. I think that's a formula to win, but you know what? If it's a formula to lose, so be it, I'd rather not win and actually be captured by a system. I'm going to be speaking truth at every step of the way.
Mark Levin
Washington Post: FBI Agents, Prosecutors Argued Over Trump Before Raid
"Story in the Washington compost not by Philip bump But by Carol D leonnig Devlin Barrett Perry Stein and RNC David no wonder the post has gone broke You need four reporters on one story Four reporters mister producer Months of disputes there was a showdown before the raid FBI agents and prosecutors argued over Trump This is what I meant to find the other day but here it is Months of disputes between Department of Justice prosecutors and FBI agents For how best to try to recover classified documents from Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club And his residence led to a tense showdown near the end of July last year According to four people familiar with the discussions Prosecutors argued that new evidence suggested Trump was knowingly concealing secret documents at his Palm Beach Florida home They urged the FBI to conduct a surprise raid at the property But two senior FBI officials who would be in charge of leading the search resisted the plan is to combative And proposed instead to seek Trump's permission to search his property According to the four people who've spoken edition of anonymity to describe a sensitive investigation What did I tell you the other day I was chief of staff to attorney general meese in the Reagan administration There is no way No way there would have been A secret search or warrant or anything else for the next president under any circumstances No way But here they did it and it was really up to Merrick Garland to put his foot on the brake here and tell these clowns these bureaucrat prosecutors no you can't do this But he didn't Prosecutors ultimately prevailed in that dispute one of several previously unreported clashes and a tense tug of war between two arms of the Justice Department
Mike Gallagher Podcast
GOP 2024 Candidates Must Sign Loyalty Pledge to Debate
"A lot of thought to something ronna mcdaniel, the RNC chair told Dana bash on CNN yesterday. And I initially had a pretty knee jerk reaction. So dumb, that's so stupid. Expecting Republicans to sign a loyalty pledge before they can participate even in the debates. That's an overreach. It's wrong. And the more I think about it, I kind of apply her expectation to me. As a radio host, I mean, I'm aware that I make my living trying to persuade people with my views, my opinions, my thoughts, my beliefs, I guess I'm in the persuasion business. And I want to persuade Americans to stop supporting the Democrat agenda in this country because it's ruining the country. It's hurting this country. We need Republicans and leadership from the local level to the state to the federal level. We need a Republican back in The White House. The four years under Donald Trump were provably better than Biden's tenure as the commander in chief. But I also have to threaten needle a little bit. I watched Ron DeSantis last night, spend an hour with Mark Levin. On life liberty and Levin, the great show that Mark hosts Sunday nights on Fox News. I saw Tim Scott. On with Shannon bream. On Fox News Sunday. Not seeing a lot of Donald Trump on Fox News.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Paul Ryan Will Not Attend RNC If Trump Gets 2024 Nomination
"Really, really, really was hoping and praying that former congressman Paul Ryan, who's now on the board over there at the Fox corporation that runs Fox News, I was really wondering if he was going to go. And if he does not want to go, I'm not sure how, I mean, I hate to say it. I don't know how I can go on. And he sat down with W ISN reporter Jason calvi over the weekend, and he said something that has absolutely wrecked me. Do you hear my voice? Are you watching the show today on Salem news channel? Do you see it on my face? Do I look a little haggard? I haven't been sleeping very well. Because this is simply devastating. Come 20 24, the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, where will you be? It depends on who the nominee is. I'll be here if it's somebody not named Trump. You won't show up if it's not. Yeah, I'm not interested in participating in that now. Even in Wisconsin. Even Wisconsin.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
How Do Other Nations See Us? Jim Carafano Explains
"With our good friend our Friday Nash security buddy. He is the vice president of the heritage foundation. I hope you remember, go right now, heritage. Jim, you're a 5 O one three year foundation. You do not do politics, but your identity is conservative. We've talked about how other nations look at us in response to the balloon, whatever story. Got to ask you, how do other nations look at us when somebody who says they're conservative was a former chairman of the RNC, says something like this and uses the word fascism in the current context, play cut. But you know what is increasingly becoming a thing? Fascism, from Republican lawmakers appearing alongside Nazi apologists to coup defenders getting plum committee assignments to public expressions of belligerent nationalism and racism. We're getting a pretty clear picture of what fascism can look like in America. The stagnant ineffectual party isn't just about dysfunction. It isn't about it's just isn't about failure to move an agenda. It's about settling partisan score. That's what dictators do. That's the former chairman of the RNC, Michael Steele. From a foreign policy's perspective, what ramifications are there, where the former head of a party says, my party is dictatorial and fascist. Well, you know, it's funny that you ask that question because I was just in two different countries. And in the last two days, I hosted heritage. We hosted a 160 different international visitors in two days. So I've had a lot of conversations. I think that you were a bunch of fascists. Well, this is the thing is there are two minds. One is when they hear that they're saying that's just crass, partisan, ugly, politics. They see through it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"rnc" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"We are live with John Frederick's the host of the outside the beltway. He is there in Orange County, Dana point, John tell us what's going on in the room. Well, right now here we're live Jack. Thanks for having me on the Charlie Kirk show. Charlie's, as you know, as well. We've been here since Monday, the voting is going on right now. I think they just went over on Nevada. So probably you bought up 20 minutes, half hour, the voting will be done. And then they'll count the votes. Hope it's going to be a little bit faster than Arizona, no machines of involved. These are paper ballots. The biggest opportunity here, Jack for her meet Dylan, is this is a secret ballot. Exactly. There's no lines that they called state by state. There's only three votes each for state or territory. So Daniel's going to have 86 votes on the first battle. Alphabetical. Yeah. So they're in their voting now, but you think that any of the candidates will have 86 on the first ballot, just based on your reading. Yes. Yes, you do. Yes, I would be very, I would be shocked if this went to a second ballot. I mean, Mike lindell has a handful of votes really, but those on a second ballot, if it goes to a second ballot, harmeet Dylan is going to be the going to be the chair. There's no way mcdaniel survives a second ballot because of 5 or 6 or 7 people vote for lindell. There's no way they're voting for mcdaniel. They'd vote for her meat on the second ballot who is clearly in second place. As I said a little bit earlier, the wild card here Jack is the secret ballot. I mean, mcdaniel went into this thing today about 1516 votes ahead, 8 or 9 people, 7 and 9 people have to flip on a secret ballot, whether or not that happens time will tell, but I got to tell you, Jack, the tone deafness of the people in charge of the Republican National Committee right now. They are tone deaf, the complete disconnection with the grassroots is stunning. I don't know how you have a party when you don't talk to your own people. That were supporting you. Working people in the United States. I mean, they have no clue as to what is going on outside of the bubble here. And if ronna mcdaniel is successful on this first ballot, I mean, the party is going to collapse because nobody is going to give them any money. Nobody is going to knock on any doors. Nobody's going to do anything. I mean, they just don't get it, Jack. Charlie was just saying that there were people in the room that didn't even want to talk to him. I mean, we did talk to Charlie Kirk. You know, I mean, you could at least say hi. Just chairman of turning point. He runs one of the most successful shows. He at least say hi. He said they wouldn't even give him the time of day there. That's how bad it is. Well, Jack, what is happening here is I've been here since Monday, my wife and Frederick, who's the chief operating officer of our company. We've been here since Monday. This is a total media lockdown. Basically, we couldn't even get media credentials until today at 8 30 a.m. and the RNC put out numerous memos instructing their members, not to talk to anybody in the media lest they be reported. We tried to have a gaggle in the lobby two nights ago with Carrie Lake, a press gaggle with hermitian carry Lake and the RNC RNC had security come and throw us out. I mean, the media lockdown, we've got about 90 seconds left in the show. Tell us, regardless of what happens, what should the folks at home be ready for this weekend? What should they do? They should be ready to tell the RNC if mcdaniel wins, we're done. They're not going to get any money, right? They're not going to get any volunteers and they take this party over. What we now understand what the transparency Jack that we brought is that the 168 people that are here in two years, half of them are going to get they're going to be gone because Jack, we're going to vote them out. So we can get a chairman that cares about us. I love this. John Frederick, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you so much for giving us that update from the ground there. We're going to make sure to be able to cover all of this as we continue this show here is ending, but I'll encourage everybody. I'm sure you'll be on tomorrow, right? Yes. Yeah, you'll be on tomorrow from there. Well, from Phoenix. And then we'll have all the updates continue to and war room. I'm sure we'll have the updates as we go. But folks, we need to understand. And Charlie said this as well, that the RNC is not the RNC of your grandparents, of your parents, the RNC, is ripe for a hostile takeover. And if not so, at least on this ballot, then perhaps running for office, getting into those positions of the RNC National Committee chairs and telling these people that they can shove it because we're taking the party back. And there's nothing you can do about it. Thanks for listening. 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The Charlie Kirk Show
"rnc" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"Before beginning the role of a state, I'd like to go over some brief voting instructions so we can proceed and orderly manner. When the state is called, the delegation will proceed to the voting booths located in front of the council's table to my right. You each have a pin at your desk. Please bring it with you when you walk to the voting booths, blank ballots will be placed in each voting booth upon each delegation's visit to the voting table. Members are serving members who are serving as proxy will be provided a corresponding number of ballots. RNC staff will assist with directing members to their respective voting booths. All right, so we got a little break going on right there. You heard the nominations going down. Look, here's how it works. One 60 8, but you need 85 votes to win. If no one wins on the first ballot with that 85 majority, it goes to further ends. This is similar to what we saw in the speaker McCarthy race. Of course, you remember the 15 rounds of voting. And there's no auto runoff we're going through the rules here for this. You need a majority to win. There is no automatic runoff. So it can be as many ballots as it takes. We remember, of course, the night after night after night, the high drama that was going on with the speakers race. Here in Washington, D.C. where I said, now I don't think anyone's expecting the ballots to go that long. Here for the RNC chair race, but what's interesting is that we do have, of course, a three candidates have been nominated formally. Ron Ron mcdaniel, harmi Dillon, and Mike lindell. And the interesting thing is that even as the delegates put their votes in, it is a secret ballot. So this is not going to be, in a sense, the way that the RNC or excuse me, the speaker race was that you would know exactly who it was that had voted against or somebody to go to present, and then you can go over, wrangle the votes, et cetera, et cetera. We have all those great videos that came out of that. That was fire content. I love being able to post those videos. But what we're going to have here is a secret ballot. So even if it's close, we don't know who specifically it is. And I'm going to see, though, I'm going to see if there are ways for us to be able to tell maybe which delegation votes, which way things like that. We're getting some reports from in the room that there's tons of deals being cut, the vibe is weird in the room. Someone just said, believe it or not, someone just said that the loudest applause was for harmit. In the room, the loudest applause in the room was for her meet. Interesting, interesting. I'm not there. Just reading what I'm seeing. I'm just reading what I'm seeing. But in theory, if there is a deadlock between the three, in theory, unlikely, but is it possible that a new candidate could emerge? If there is a deadlock and nobody can get past those three, could a compromise candidate to come forward. Could you have a situation where the lindell supporters and the army Dillon supporters come together and go for another candidate? Maybe there's another reason that Charlie Kirk is there. I'm just saying folks. I'm just saying, Charlie Kirk is in the room. And so it is possible. That if we get to a deadlock that they turn to Charlie and say, sir, if you are nominated, will you serve? If elected, will you be the RNC chairman, mister Charlie card? I'm just saying, trust me. I don't know if he's listening right now, but y'all he's going to love that one. Charlie, I'm putting you. I'm throwing your hat in the ring. Sorry about that, buddy..
The Charlie Kirk Show
"rnc" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"Thank you, Glenn. Before we move to the officer elections, I want to personally thank our officers and committee chairs. You've done amazing work and I greatly appreciate all your support and guidance to our committee chairs. You have been incredible leaders for each of your committees. Can we please thank them? And now we will proceed with the election of RNC officers without objection, I would now like to hand the gavel to Jeff Kent, National Committee man for Washington and rules committee chairman for the purpose of presiding over the officer elections. Hearing no objection, Jeff Kent will now preside. Thank you, madam chair. Okay, folks, strap yourself in. Here we go. I will begin by providing a brief overview of the election process. RNC officer elections are governed by rule number 5 D, which reads the chairman co chairman and all other officers shall be elected in January of each odd number year, all officers accept the vice chairman shall be nominated from the floor and she'll have at least the majority vote of the Republican National Committee members in each of three states in order to have their name placed in nomination. Evidenced by written documentation submitted to the council's office, three candidates received the necessary support for each of the three states for the election of chairman. Three candidates received the necessary support for the election of co chairman. Two candidates received the necessary support for the election of treasurer and two candidates received the necessary support for the election of secretary. Elections shall be held in the following order. Chairman, co chairman, treasure, and then secretary. The floor will not be open for nominations to an office other than for the election of chairman, which shall occur first until the presiding election has been completed. Each candidate will be allotted 5 minutes total for nominating and seconding speeches and the parliamentarians will keep time. The parliamentarian will hold up a green card when one minute is remaining a yellow card when 30 seconds are remaining and the red card one time has expired. The presiding officer will allow the speaker to finish the sentence that began before the allotted time expired, but no more. Time limits will be strictly enforced. Nominating speeches and seconding speeches may be made from the podium or from the microphones on the floor. Only RNC members or valid proxy holders nominating and seconding the candidates will be allowed to speak. When all nominations have been made for an office, the presiding officer will declare the nominations closed. If the 5 minute limit has expired and additional members wish to second the nomination, those members will be able to approach the council's office table and add their names. When the nomination for an office has ended, the chair rule repeat the names in nomination. Pursuant to RNC rule 7 D and precedent established by previous RNC officer elections, elections will which have multiple candidates are nominated. The election will be held by secret ballot. The election is won by attaining a majority of the eligible votes cast. As soon as the nominee receives a majority of the votes cast, he or she will be declared elected. Blank ballots inept and abstentions will not count as votes. A ballot cast with the name of a candidate not properly nominated or ineligible to serve in the position, will count towards determining the majority needed to win the election. If no candidate receives a majority vote, we will stand at ease for 5 minutes and then vote again. Until a candidate ends up with a majority. After each election, the elected officer will have the opportunity to briefly address the body. These are the procedures, procedures we have used in the past and without objection, these are the procedures that we will follow today. Hearing no objection, we will begin with the election of chairman of the Republican National Committee. But you see, for me, this vote is not about polls or who loves American war or who's going to fight more. It comes down to two questions when it comes to what matters to me. Can I trust you? Can I rely on you? And the answer to those two questions regarding ronna mcdaniel are yes. And yes. You see great leaders, they're trustworthy. They're humble. They're not afraid to say I'm sorry when they've made a mistake. They can be fierce when necessary, and they have the wisdom to navigate challenging waters, and they have the ability to unify all stakeholders for a common goal. Because they are relational. Not transactional. It's for those reasons and many more. That this more seasoned mom is enthusiastically nominating. Ronna mcdaniel for the chairman of the Republican National Committee. John recognizes David bossie, the National Committee man from Maryland..
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"Check it out right now. COVID tax relief dot org. I would now like to recognize one Nepal budget committee chairman and National Committee man from South Carolina for the purpose of giving the budget committee report Glenn. Thank you, madam chair. I want to begin by thanking the members of the budget committee for all their hard work and dedicated efforts throughout the entire budget review process. And if we could just give them a round of applause. The budget that was sent to every member of the RNC ten days ago has not been modified, amended since and is the same budget that will consider today. Doing meetings on Wednesday, the same proposed 2023 budget, R and C budget was adopted as a placeholder by the budget committee and approved by the executive committee without amendments. With the understanding that the budget committee will make changes to the budget, if needed at feature meetings, so now madam chair on behalf of the budget committee and to comply with RNC rule number ten a three direct directive that the annual budget be passed at the first meeting of the RNC held each year. I moved adoption of the 2023 RNC budget. Glenn McCall has moved adoption of the 2023 R&D budget. Do I hear a second? It is moved and seconded that we adopt the 2023 RNC budget. Is there any discussion? Hearing no further discussion, we will proceed with the vote. All those in favor of adopting the 2023 RNC budget please signify by saying I, all those opposed signify by saying no, the eyes have it and the 2023 budget is adopted..
POLITICO Playbook Audio Briefing
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"But she very much approached them, apologized, and it looks like that may have helped. She also has been telling people who are concerned about who she surrounded herself with. A lot of these Trump maga hardliners that she is not an election denier and that she is not one of those types. And so I think she's definitely trying to work and win over people who are skeptical of Trump and she's had a lot of success with that this week. And then obviously Ron DeSantis yesterday sort of shocked everyone when he came out and said he supported her over Rana. And I don't know how much of an impact that had on moving votes, but last night I was staking out her reception at about 10 o'clock Pacific time and she was she came out. She was working the phones. I asked her about this and she said she had flipped more than ten votes just that day and was thinking she was going to get even more. She thought she was with it and striking distance. And she told me the story that a lot of people are talking about right now here at the RNC basically there was this big dinner last night and she was seated in the very back of the dinner with her back facing the front of the stage in that she was facing the back and a lot of people got upset because they thought ronna mcdaniel had something to do with it and that it was sort of a petty slight. And so some people came up to Harvey Dylan and were telling her they might vote for her because they were upset on her behalf. And then other people have told me that actually she was supposed to sit in the front and then she canceled on the dinner, but she said she couldn't come so they gave her seat to someone else. Anyway, point being, there is a lot of drama happening and remember this is a secret ballot. So we have no idea if somebody's lying, like is she really within striking distance? We won't know for a little bit a couple of hours here, but there's a lot happening in short. I guess if you want to prove your independence from Donald Trump, there's nothing better than a Ron DeSantis, a non endorsement endorsement. What does all this mean for Trump, you know? I feel like maga America first is still a big position in the party, but then independence from Trump is still, you know, an important thing to have in an RNC chair. It just kind of interesting seeing all these different forces coalesce. Yeah. I mean, a lot of people are sort of watching this. I think from the outside and trying to figure out what does this mean for the future of the party, specifically, what does this race tell us about Trump? And it's not really clear cut in that both of these women obviously have strong ties to Trump. They're both supporters of him. And there's nobody who's running right now on a platform like an anti Trump platform saying that he definitely shouldn't be the nominee and we need to look elsewhere. So that's sort of one thing, I guess, moving in his favor.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"rnc" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"Dome. What are your thoughts on this? Well, we've had three substandard election cycles in a row. 1820 and 22. And I would say of all three of those 22 was probably the worst given the political environment of a very unpopular president and Biden. Huge majorities of the people think the country is going in the wrong direction. That is an environment that's tailor made to make big gains in the House and the Senate and state House state houses all across the country. And yet that didn't happen. And in fact, we even lost ground in the U.S. Senate. And so I think we need a change. I think we need to get some new blood in the RNC. I like what harmit Dylan has said about getting the RNC out of D.C.. Why would you want to have your headquarters in the most Democrat city in America? It's more Democrat than San Francisco is. So I think you get it in real parts of the country. You attract people who want to live in those parts of the country, not D.C. insiders. But I do think we need some fresh thinking. And I here's the thing, just practically speaking, you need grassroots, Republicans to power this organization with volunteering and donations. I think it's going to be very difficult to energize people to want to give money to want to volunteer their time with the RNC if they don't see a change in direction. Do you have any personal experience with the RNC? I mean, because they'll say that Florida was one of their great successes this last cycle. So we actually ran our election, assuming we weren't going to be involved with the RNC at all, because they weren't raising the type of money that they needed to be raising. And so our get out the vote, our ground operation, we funded that. We focused a lot on actually low propensity voters and we turned out a lot of low props, which is very, very good. So it was very successful. But that was really being driven by our agenda, our accomplishments, and us putting a lot of dollars behind this important ground game. Yeah, and there's I'm talking to a lot of members and we're going to see how it ends up and people are kind of looking for direction and for answers. But here's what we do know, 92 to 98% of voters say this is insane what's happening here. This continued lackluster results. Why are we why are we going to put our foot on the gas and accelerate in a direction that is really against us? And I would just say, hey, look at Florida, maybe Florida's a path forward that actually could show us how we could do things. And so just kind of closing thought on that, the members are meeting and you've said, it's time for a change. What other ideas do you think the RNC could embrace? Regardless of who wins to actually have a path forward that can achieve victory. It needs to be less consultant driven. This money that's going in needs to go to ultimately winning elections. And not to be lining the pocket of so many consultants. So we need huge transparency on that. When we ran our election, we had our digital in-house. We've got a great fundraising team. We have all this. But we're not giving commissions to we pay them a salary. We do a good job. I want to pay you. I want you to do well, but you can't have incentives to where the campaigns and the operations are run with an eye to putting more money in the pocket of the consultant class. And obviously they're very powerful in D.C.. So I think if we can get away from that, have more transparency. And then really be in touch with our voter base. I mean, one of the reasons why we did well is because our base voters knew governor's going to do the right thing. I trust him. He's got our back. There's not a lot of trust between the grassroots and the RNC up in D.C.. In fact, when I would do fundraising, I'd raise money for the Republican Party of Florida. We would do good, but if I did a fundraising for me instead of for the party, we'd raise much more money because they trust the people that they see do in the job..
The Charlie Kirk Show
"rnc" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"So we're heading to the RNC meeting. There's a 168 members. Right now, the current chairperson of the RNC is Ronald Romney. And again, she's a very sweet and pleasant person. I haven't heard anybody say anything different. She's always been very warm and very kind to me, but she's also a loser. And we should not reward losers. And when you run the RNC for the years that she has, which is now 6 years, and every is it 6 years, let me think. Yeah, that's right. 2017 is when she became RNC chair. And every single cycle you have an excuse in 2018, it was Mueller in 2020. It was COVID in 2022. It was abortion. You're probably more focused on staying chairperson than actually achieving results. And that's okay. I'm sure that there's a place for ambition and all this. In the broader calculus, but why on earth are we going to keep on rewarding somebody that does not deliver the desired objective, especially one that spends $17 million on donor gifts? Especially one that spent $700,000 on flowers. It's ridiculous. And the current RNC regime in so many different ways is demanding more time more of your money more of your resources, why? Because I think they want to keep the consultant industrial complex going. They want to continue to stay in power, regardless of how people criticize them. And how many people want them removed 98% of people want them removed. 90 8%. Want aren't the RNC to be changed. There's some very big money involved here. If we do not win back The White House in 2024, the republic is going to be harder and harder for us to reclaim. I don't think the country will be over, but it will be hard for us to reclaim it. And it's so winnable. These people are doing such damage to our country. The RNC needs to be run by innovative thinkers, people that employ entrepreneurialism, why is it? That the RNC considers himself to be untouchable. I want your thoughts on the RNC race. As we head there and as I try to be your voice, coming up tomorrow, the lobby these members, email us freedom at Charlie Kirk dot com. Noble gold investments is pleased to let you know that gold was the best investment class for 2022 through all our record breaking inflation, crashing stock market, the crypto scams, there is one asset that is held its own. Gold. According to long-term trends dot net gold is actually outperformed the S&P 500, Dow and Bitcoin for 2022. Had you invested in the S&P 500 a year ago, you would be down more than 20%. If you invested in Bitcoin a year ago, you'd be down more than 65%. If you invest in the Dow a year ago, you'd be down almost 10%. Yes, gold has outperformed them all in 2022 and silver is not far behind. Yes, while the world was busy, hailing other assets is the real hedge, gold and silver are the only assets that would have protected your wealth. So join the thousands of others by opening a gold IRA or silver IRA with noble gold investments, get in right now and you'll bag a free one fourth of an ounce American gold eagle coin with every qualified IRA of $50,000 or more. You can't go wrong a noble gold investments and their thousands of 5 star reviews. This is a little, this just happened. This minutes ago, governor Ron DeSantis take on the upcoming R and C race. And just for the record, Donald Trump is remaining neutral on the race, but you're about to hear governor desantis is not remaining neutral. He's listening to you, and he says it's time for a change. Play cut 99. Right now the RNC is meeting in Dana point, California. And there are some questions of who should lead the RNC. And whether it should be Rana for a fourth term or go a different directional hard meat.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"rnc" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"Would you like it, or here's some donors? Would you like to share some of these donors? Would you like to do a joint fundraiser? Would you like to do a joint rally? Can't do that. Now you can have candidates come speak at your events, but you can not coordinate with those candidates. It's a very fine line. Now, 5 27s are regulated the same way, 5 27s are super PACS. You hear about that a lot, but the RNC is different. The RNC because of federal election law allows the party itself that the person is running in, so let's say that Joe Smith is running as a Republican in Wyoming, Joe Smith is able to talk to the RNC. Joe Smith is able to do meetings with the RNC. Joe Smith is able to receive data from the RNC. Joe Smith, or let's use more applicable examples. Let's say Blake masters was able to rehearsal walker was able to or Adam lacks solar. JD Vance, they're able to pick up the phone and say, RNC lets meet. What is your polling showing? What is your data showing? What messaging is going to work or not going to work. So the RNC at its best should operate as a central hub, a clearing house, to be able to get data, volunteer strategy, grassroots, fundraising, small dollar donors, the RNC is necessary. We will not win in 2024. We first don't clean up our elections, and that's why we need an actual functioning RNC. To make sure that we do not continue to have the sabotage and the ambush campaigns that plague our great candidates like Kerry Lake and many others, but secondly, if we do not have an RNC that is deploying resources prudently and properly, that is understanding the need to energize voters with proper messaging, done correctly and properly, a functioning RNC can work in harmony with some of our best candidates, including if Donald Trump is the nominee in 2024. Whoever the nominee is in 2024, we need to have in our NC that is able to work in tandem with whomever that candidate is. I do not have faith. That the current RNC regime will be able to get our movement, the America first movement, back into The White House in 2024. And I know a lot of you feel the same way. But that's just one example of several of why this matters so much. There is a technical reason, and the technical reason I just laid out for you. But in harmeet Dylan has made some promises, Mike lindell has made several promise a similar promises. We want to decentralize the RNC. We want to bring it to Jacksonville, Florida, or we want to bring it to Atlanta, Georgia. We want to bring it to Wisconsin. We want to bring it to Phoenix, Arizona, shut down the Washington D.C. office. I have not heard a good argument as to why the RNC has an office in Washington, D.C.. The RNC is not there as a lobbying organization, it shouldn't be there as a social club. It shouldn't be there as a consultant clearing house. The RNC should not have a stapler in Washington, D.C.. The RNC should not have a keurig machine in Washington, D.C.. It should be a fire sale, shut it down, bar the door. Get as much money as you can for it. And then open up four other headquarters. Say the RNC now has four headquarters, or four headquarters, are in Fulton county, Georgia, we are now in Waukesha, Wisconsin, we are in Maricopa, and we are in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania. That's we are going to live where we need a wind votes. We are going to operate in the actual places that are going to be necessary to save the republic. This alone, the current RNC regime finds this idea to be preposterous. Ah, come on, you need a D.C. office. Why? What is the answer? We need to live where we need to win. Hire the staff there. Immerse yourself in the culture, understand the demography, understand the trends, the things that candidates are talking about. Now the RNC will say, well, we open field offices. I am not talking about a field office. I'm talking about the actual nuts and bolts of where you call the headquarters. And by the way, it would be nice to actually spend money in the states where you need to actually be able to win people over. So this is all happening right now in Dana point, California, of course, Dana point, California, at $900 a night resort, the RNC is at the Waldorf Astoria in Dana point. Is that right, the Waldorf Astoria? There is a more opulent option, and that's what they'll probably say. The Ritz is which one's higher? Check which one's higher on Expedia. I don't know if Expedia is the best. What do you use? Hotels dot com, hotels dot com. Which is a priceline. That's William Shatner. I'm wondering which one Ritz is cheaper. Than the Waldorf. All right, so they took the more opulent option. And just for the record, I think the Ritz is actually a nicer hotel. I actually do. That Ritz is a beautiful property. Had an opportunity to go to a couple of events there, right? Am I right? The Waldorf, I don't think it's just overpriced. I'm actually not really a Waldorf fan, as it is. Yeah, so but anyway, that's where they're doing, is it really true it's owned by the Chinese? Is that right? I don't know if that's right or not. Maybe or not. By the way, if I was running the RNC, okay, you don't have to go to days in. I think that's an you don't have to go to, you know, motel 8 or whatever. That's too much, okay? But maybe a Hilton, you're just like a main line nice brand. Maybe a Marriott? Maybe a Weston, right? I mean, something that's good for business travelers. And maybe do it in a state that you need to win? Don't do it the Hyatt because that's JB pritzker. You help fund the Democrats. Marriott, they've been Republican donors in years past. Why you have it at the Waldorf Astoria? I don't know..
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"They have made me a believer. Just go research NAD. I have done a lot of study on what NAD is and I can tell you a special 20% discount for Kirk show fans will apply whether you want to test it out for one week or four weeks, but I highly encourage you to try it for all four. So go now and visit strong cell dot com slash Charlie and enter promo code Charlie for 20% discount. We get so many people that want to partner with us and have their product advertised on our show. I say no to most of them. When I found out there was someone that was doing liquid NAD, I said, I want to learn about it. I took it for a month. And it's made a big difference. You've got to check it out. Strong cell dot com slash Charlie, enter promo code Charlie for that 20% discount. If Tyler Boyer here, who's going to be one of the voters on Friday, he is not a swing voter. Tyler, what is the latest in the RNC race? Man, that was quite the letter that you read. From Mike ryden. And we've been hearing that from all over the place, not just from donors, but from the grassroots more importantly. And nothing has really changed since the beginning of this thing. Since the beginning we saw the grassroots has been solidly in the camp for change. And really the only people that I think are standing in the way or supportive of that is the one 68. So as we brought up just as a refresh for everybody, this three votes from every state and territory is a National Committee man, a National Committee woman and a state party chair. Those are the three votes that determine who becomes the RNC chair. And the race is down to this Friday. It's down to Rana versus harmeet, Dylan versus Mike lindell. It looks like right now, Mike lindell. Probably has probably about a handful of votes, I think, on the RNC right now, from everything that we've seen. We've had a few people come out and vocal support, not many. Harm me, I think, is doing a little bit better than that. I think she is going to sail through what would become the first vote because you have to win a 50% plus majority. What's that number then? So when it's 85 votes. So that's the magic number. That's the magic number. You have to get 85 votes in order to become RNC chair. If everybody is present. So if people aren't present, then that number shrinks. But you need a majority of the voting. But you can do proxy, can't you? There's proxies, yeah. So most everybody shows up, yeah. Yeah, okay, so you're going to get a 163 votes, right? 168. You're going to get to one 68. Probably, I mean, there's probably inevitably sometimes there's disqualified votes because they don't send the right proxy, sometimes people just don't show up. Sometimes people leave, you know, and don't vote. So this is right on. So buy it on the margin. You could be at a 160 162 votes. So you might not need 80,000. That will lower the threshold. You need 81 82, maybe. So it looks like right now that I think Ron is hovering right around. The magic number. And harmeet has been just cruising up. And I think that all of the Mike lindell votes, if it goes the second round, are probably going to vote for har meat in the second round, right? So I think that's probably fair. So harm me, I think is going to be outwardly and behind closed doors above 70 and the 70s. There's a lot of people on the RNC. I mean, this is like a really wild situation because you can have Trump stay now for the most part right now. But he just endorsed for the co chair, who's the state party chair from North Carolina, Michael watley. He's been like a huge run of advocate. So a lot of people are signaling and saying, well, that's Trump saying they supporting Rana, which I actually don't think helps Rana. I actually think there's a lot of people that are on the RNC. All the Trump fans that I know are all supporting our meat. So yeah, it's kind of a screwed up scenario that we have here where like Kellyanne Conway, who has received some money from the RNC and a lot of people, it seems like the only people that are out at advocating for no change are the people who have been paid by the RNC, which I think is totally a conflict of interest. Yeah, I mean, it's an imbalance, right? So 90 to 98% of the grassroots. And I think a 100% of our audience right now want to see a change at the RNC. They believe that losing is not acceptable. They believe that the current RNC is not getting the job done..
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"rnc" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"That. We must compete. And that requires a year round investment and effort at the RNC, Charlie. I encourage every single one of you. We need you right now to just communicate your sentiment to your RNC chairman or commitment. They are making their decisions in real time. And if you have not yet sent an email, you guys can get all the information, there's a website that is up and running. It's higher harming dot com H IRE harmeet dot com, hire like you're hiring somebody for a job, hire meat dot com and you'll go through it and we have a lot of patriots watching right now from Oklahoma. We have people from Nebraska. We have people from Ohio. Just go and contact them. That is all organized by Scott pressler, by the way. And this is really bothering the ruling class of the RNC. In fact, they are putting out press releases that their troubled that the people are now involved in this clubby process. Walk us through. Right, I mean, look, I want to be fair here. Many members of the RNC do come from the grassroots and even if they don't, they realize they're representatives of the people and they care. So emails to them, polite emails, best if you're from their state, are persuasive. Many other members of the RNC have been very angry with me. That supporters of mine like Scott pressler have put out email addresses. And there have also been some unfortunate phone calls from no effort of our side to people supporting Mike lindell. I'm sure he also doesn't support that kind of effort. But at the end of the day, I'm a representative, but why did I step into this? I represent the voters in California, millions of them, Republican voters who want the RNC to win elections, and they sent me there for that purpose. And I sit on a board, I sit on the board of the Republican Party, the Republican Party is not fulfilling its duty, and that's why I'm stepping forward. And so, you know, I'm used to hearing from voters all over the country and I think it's my job to listen to them. So be aware that many members, in fact, I got a threat from the chair of a party in the Midwest saying, if you don't make this stop, not only not vote for you, I'll actively campaign against you and make sure you lose. This is the attitude of chairs of Republican parties in the United States. If you're talking and that person needs to go. Yeah, you keep on communicating with me. I'm going to destroy you. I mean, they can't. They are so insulated from the people that they supposedly represent. Right. I mean, look, at this point, the persuasion level has to be member to member, we're going into this meeting. I think everyone is look, everyone in the Republican Party has heard what the numbers are. The numbers are 85, 90, 95% for a change at the RNC. 99% in some polls. And so that said, you know, what we're going to be doing over the next several days in Dana point, California and the nice resort there, which is the location shows and by the chair, we will be meeting with members and trying to persuade them. There's a lot of horse trading, you know, deal making, some people have called this akin to like a popularity contest in high school. It's unfortunate that our party has run this way, but I genuinely believe that almost all the members of the RNC have the right goals in mind, which is to do the right thing for the party. But, you know, when you have a lot of swamp folks and a lot of invested political consultants lobbying very hard. And frankly, you know, using all the resources of the RNC against my campaign, you know, those are the odds. It's a challenge, but we are very honored to have the support of many of the major donors of the party, millions and millions of voters in the party. A lot of members of Congress as well have come forward to support us and virtually every conservative media commentator as well. So if the party doesn't listen to that and isn't persuaded by that and wants to stay the course quote unquote. I mean, some of the, some of the things that members have said to me is, oh, Harvey, you know, we can't change horses now. We have to stay the course. Well, where's that course leading you? Where is that course been over the last 6 years? That course is not leading you in the right direction. And if you stay on that course, you may, you know, go off a cliff. If we do not win in 2024, I'm afraid that we're going to be in a permanent minority status for a couple of decades in this country. I'm not trying to scaremonger here, but that's really what's at stake. And two major donors have already pulled their support Bernie Marcus and dick you line the two biggest donors in the Republican Party saying that we are not going to continue to support the RNC. If it continues in the direction Iran Romney. And I'm going to read an email. I got from a 7 figure donor who gives a lot of money across the board and could give a lot more to the RNC about why he supports your candidacy harmeet and thinks Rana is way off the reservation email sent by Mike ryden, who is a serious donor to the Republican ecosystem, 7 plus figures. A year, RNC members, the Republican National Committee is becoming less and less effective against a Democrat party that is trying to destroy this country. Why can you not see that? You are like the frog that sits in water waiting to be boiled. Our country is never going back to the good old days where you could do nothing of substance, run stupid and often insulting TV ads and still win. The Democrat party machine has outsmarted you every step of the way and the same RNC chair who can not figure out how to win against the worst possible candidates imaginable is not going to save this country. Perhaps you can be excused for losing the 2020 election because you were taken by surprise. There is no excuse to have done so poorly in the midterm election. The party needs new leadership, a good leader doesn't continually make excuses that is figure out how to get the job done. We need a leader with the legal experience and expertise to beat the Democrats at their own game, and I think our meet Dylan is that leader. And perhaps you think it doesn't matter whether we win or not, because regardless of which parties in power, life will continue to get better and better here in the U.S. for you and your children, perhaps you think that massive illegal immigration with no checks on who comes into the country is an important, perhaps you think that begging dictators for energy doesn't matter or that an educational system that pushes propaganda and silence is any opposing thought instead of teaching critical thinking and useful subjects doesn't matter. What about encouraging kids to attempt to change their gender at an early age or systemically trying to get white people and people of color to hate each other with CRT. The list goes on. The people who are trying to destroy this country know what they are doing and to many in our party are clueless. We need a leader who understands this and why it's happening, how to fight and who wants to fight it. That leader is hard meet Dylan. I'm now telling other large donors to quit giving any money to the RNC and instead give to organizations that actually make a difference. It would be a really nice to see if we can make a change that the Republicans across the nation could get confidence to invest in the RNC again currently. The RNC is a poor investment for most of America sincerely Mike ryden, who is one of the largest Republican donors in the.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"rnc" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"You won't regret it. We at turning point USA hosted America fest. And turning point action are 5 O one C four political arm. Conducted a poll. And the poll results showed that 98% of our attendees 98% were in support of regime change at the RNC. They said we don't like what's happening there. We want somebody different. We might Mike lindell, harmeet Dylan, or somebody else. We want to change it. We want to, we want to mix it up. Okay. So we publicize that poll. And we said this is what our members want. This is what the grassroots are saying. They're angry. I happen to agree with them, but if 98% of our membership said they're really happy with the RNC, I would have took a pause like, wow, maybe I'm out of touch with it actually turns out that I'm in touch with the audience, one of the reasons why I ask for your emails, one of the reasons why I ask you guys to communicate is so I can learn, what is the combined wisdom of our audience feeling? It's how I build a connection to you. It's how I listen. It's how I learn. Sometimes I am in connection with you. Sometimes I'm in disagreement and I feel as if I'm right, but that's the way that a functioning dialog with the masses is supposed to work. Okay. So we did a poll and 98% of you said, yeah, we don't want. We don't want rono. Okay. So we publicized the poll. So then Rana, who I have no personal issue with, she's always been very sweet and kind to me. I need to keep on reemphasizing that. Because it's true. Goes on Brian kilmeade show who I love Brian kilmeade, he's terrific. He has some good questions. And she said that basically attack turning point and said, how many younger voters did we get out? How many people did you register and the answer is quite a lot, actually. And so we responded in rather, you know, public terms we said Rana, thanks for asking, 'cause she was attacking turning point, which is a very puzzling strategy. I want to be in charge of the RNC, so I'm going to attack the only youth organization that just held the largest multi day event of people across the country with Tucker Carlson Laura Ingraham, Tim pool, Steve Bannon, not exactly politically smart. Okay. And so she said, well, they're attacking me. We're actually not. We're listening to our members. We're just saying that you should no longer be in charge of the RNC. Are we at a place now where you're so fragile that you have entitled to run the RNC for a term that you promised us you would not run for? So here's how we responded turning point action logged more than 500,000 volunteer hours this cycle. Turning point action directly contacted and engaged 5 million voters. At turning point action, we hosted over 100 major door knocking rallies in target states and districts. At turning point action, we recruited over 2000 new precinct leaders with a goal to be at 10,000 by the end of 2023. At turning point action, we registered tens of thousands of new voters. We hosted governor desantis in 7 states supporting more than a dozen governor Senate and congressional candidates, including events with president Donald Trump. We reached tens of millions of listeners and grassroots folks in our podcast that you guys watch also on real America's voice. We messaged to Hispanic voters in South Florida, Phoenix and Tucson. We successfully supported JD Vance on a paulina Mike Lee and Andy Biggs against and Mike Lee and Andy beggs in particular against Romney backed independent plants. By the way, all of this by just spending half a $1 million via turning point pack and a few $1 million via our 5 O one. I then asked the question, how many hundreds of millions did the RNC spend? I continued by saying instead of attacking the only youth organization in the country actually doing something, maybe you should be thankful actually doing the work. This is why you should no longer be chair of the RNC. This is why 98% of our members on our attendees want you fired. And then I continue to send instead of attacking us, you should be sending us $700,000 in flowers. Thanking us..
The Charlie Kirk Show
"rnc" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"All right, Jennifer, let's continue here. Is it accurate to say? That 40% of all RNC expenditures are on fundraising expenses. That's actually going to be in part two of my story. So I don't want to stake out any exact numbers right now. I am speaking to people about the fundraising expenses and the fundraising contracts and some other insider contracts. So are we in the ballpark? Okay, so I don't want to obviously ruin your story here, but are we in the ballpark of an extraordinary figure for fundraising expenses? Yes, we are. Okay, got it. So here's part of the RNC's statement, they say this, a client of hard meat Dylan decided to publish a hit piece in the middle of the night without making a serious attempt to engage with the RNC committee woman Daniel's team, this blog post is as blatantly false as the lie she's been spreading about the RNC members are being bribed for their votes if critics want to misrepresent and push false narratives of the RNC spending this past cycle they should do the math and realize it only adds up to 8.8% of the total amount the chairwoman raised. Like, hold on a second. So raised versus spent are two different figures because they spent, for example, at turning point USA, 6% of our money is on fundraising expenses. 6%. If I told my team to spend 25%, I could raise three times as much money. Now, but the margin wouldn't make any sense and it would also not be in our best interest because we want to spend our money on programming at turning point USA. I'd rather spend our money on starting chapters, hosting events, training pastors, turning point academy, curriculum, all the sort of stuff, not just being a fundraising operation, right? So what do you have to say to the RNC's statement here? Well, I mean, first, they're also a client of heartbeat Dylan. And I had noted that in the piece from the start that Harvey Dylan is represented me when Katie hill sued me. And that I have endorsed her meat within that race. That doesn't change the numbers. I can't change the numbers by my support. Well, that's exactly right. This is such a, I'd have to defend you, Jennifer. I think it's such a silly slanderous sloppy smear attack. Like, oh, she's Friends with Harvey. Okay, the numbers are the numbers, okay? Are these reports legit? Like, did you spend $700,000 on flowers? Like, that's a very simple question. Right. Which they obviously don't want to answer. She said, well, first, it's so insulting and so many ways. This blog post, all right. Hold on. Hold on. You mean the person Jennifer who took down Katie hill? One of the more effective journalists on the planet and you get smeared by the RNC. This is so typical, honestly, this is uni party garbage is what this is. Like just own it. Tell us why you spent $700,000 on flowers. Right. Tell us why you took all of your senior staff and their plus ones, first class to Vegas and back and rented a private box at an NFL game for $30,000, paid for all their lodging, food, alcohol, the alcohol sticks out to me because, I mean, we all know that people drink when you especially if you go on a business trip, but Salem doesn't pay for our alcohol ever. Ever. Yeah, I mean, I'm pretty hawkish about that around here. At turning point, but I mean, it's the RNC, so I mean, they have a reputation uphold as far as the drink. So I mean, look, but let's just say, I'm going to just, I really want to just focus on some of the top line figures here. Because some of the stuff, you know, you have a whistleblower on some of this. They say that the Vegas trip was wasteful and all that stuff. But I mean, I do not understand where the spin could come from of $381,000 for furniture expenses. I mean, this money. Great. And this is so important. It's one thing if you are an institution. Let's just say if we were to go through the financials of an organization that I appreciate or I enjoy, that's like a college, like hillsdale college. Okay, but they're an institution. They're not the RNC, right? Meaning that the RNC has to act with urgency and with precision and they are the only organization that has allowed to share data that's allowed to represent the party that could coordinate with campaigns. With this $6 million of wasteful spending that I identified just in this piece, we probably could have won the Nevada Senate seat and how massive would that have been? So I just extremely disappointed in how this our money is being handled by the RNC. Look, we run a big organization. I understand at times you got to do retreats. You got to do staff training. There is no explanation to spend nearly a $1 million on flowers and $17 million on donor gifts that could have been spent to win us the Senate..
The Charlie Kirk Show
"rnc" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"Okay, so we got actually our numbers. I asked our team, I said, what do we spend at turning point? And look, we've been very blessed. Over a 130,000 donors, 145,000 donors. So last year we reported at turning point USA, we raised $55.2 million in total revenue. And we spent $3.1 million in fundraising expenses. So that's nonprofit that's mailings, that's text messages that's emails, that's donor events. So at turning point USA, that's a 6%. So we spent 6% on fundraising expenses. And the RNC spent 40% on fundraising expenses. By the way, if you want to contact your RNC member and ask them why they are wasting your money with $17 million on donor mementos and $700,000 on flowers, you guys can contact your RNC member at higher harm meat dot com. That's higher like you are hiring somebody, HARM, T dot com. Joining us now is Stephen Miller, a great patriot. There's a new story out in The Washington Post how a Trump allied group fighting anti white bigotry beat Biden in court, Steven, welcome back to the program. Great to be here. Thank you so much. So Steven, tell us, how did you and you're the founder of America first legal? How did you beat Biden in the court with his blatant and naked anti white beliefs and views? Well, it's quite simple, really. Federal civil rights law is as unambiguous as it gets. Racial discrimination is illegal. Particularly of course, when carried out by the federal government and that's true in any context and no matter who you're discriminating against, and for years, and that is something we've talked about before. Under the guise of equity, the left has been pushing formalized racial discrimination against both white people as well as a few other ethnic groups Indians Asians, Jews, et cetera and all of that is of course completely illegal. Whether you're talking about admissions to universities, whether you're talking about eligibility for grant money, whether you're talking about eligibility for federal benefits, all of that at any context is illegal. And so we sued the Biden administration for some of these very bigoted policies. Yes. And we also have ongoing lawsuits and other contexts over the exact same thing. So we have sued Amazon over racial discrimination in which if you are a Caucasian Amazon driver, you're not eligible for the same benefits as drivers who have other skin color. We've also sued Texas a and M university for racial discrimination in the hiring of professors. So this is an area where we are very active and very engaged in order to preserve equal justice for all in America. And I would just say to all of your viewers and all of your listeners that if you see something, say something, contact us at AF legal dot org slash equality, AF legal ORG slash equality. That's our portal for any complaints about racial discrimination. And if you have a valid case, if there's something that is legally actionable, then we will be in a position to evaluate that and possibly provide pro Bono legal representation..
The Charlie Kirk Show
"rnc" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"Looks so turning point USA is nowhere near the size of the RNC. We are a fraction. We do raise a serious amount if you count turning point USA turning point action, we have over a 165,000 grassroots donors, very blessed. So I know a little bit about this space about what it's like to allocate expenditures. 40% of all the money spent by the Republican National Committee was spent on fundraising. 40%. So if you give a dollar to the RNC, if you give a dollar to the GOP, 40 cents on the dollar is going to go spend to is being spent to raise more money. And so the RNC's responses, well, the RNC has raised record amounts of money. Well, they've raised record amounts of money because they're spending all your money in raising more money. It's that they spend money on new solicitations, buying new lists, and that's part of their response. But if anyone in the audience, please email me freedom at Charlie Kirk dot com. What is the argument? For spending $700,000 on floral arrangements. Somebody said, well, Charlie, it's for donors that passed away. Okay, that's not the best spent. I'll be honest, that's not the best money spent by the RNC. At $700,000, got to be spent on data that could be spent on critical infrastructure in the states. That's not the best money spent. I'm not saying you shouldn't honor a person that passes away, but $700,000 on flowers. Okay, so you might say, well, what is what are the Democrats spend? The Democrat National Committee only spent a $1000 on flowers. So this is just the election cycle. The RNC spent $321,000 on flowers and the Democrats spent $1000 on flowers. The Democrats spent $1.5 million at the Democrat National Committee on donor gifts, $1.5 million on donor gifts, and the Republicans spent $17 million on donor gifts. I'm telling you right now, we would not put up with any of this at turning point, not even close. We hawk every single expenditure, 40% of all dollars spent on new donors and new fundraising. And then there's all these expenditures on clothes. By the way, I asked our team what our number is at turning point we spent between four to 6% on fundraising. Four to 6%, which is way below the average. A reasonable average is like 8 to 10%. You get in your 12%, you're a little bit shaky. We're near four to 6% at turning point USA and turning point action. We hawk it. Now, mind you, it's a little different. We're able to we're able to accept unlimited gifts. Meaning that we can accept donations larger than $750,000. We don't have a lot of donors like that. We have a couple that the RNC is not allowed to. But that's only a more, that's another argument for the RNC to be careful with their money. Don bold spent $4 million in his entire campaign. Imagine if one fourth of that of he had that $17 million in mementos. So instead of giving money to the RNC, I'm sorry, the RNC giving $17 million in donor gifts. And by the way, I know the donor community pretty well. They don't want these trinkets. They think it's a waste of time. Maybe a thing here or there are memorable pin we do that every so often at turning point, but not $17 million worth you should have told The White House pay for it yourself or don't give it out. There's more expenditures here. A $100,000 on clothes? I don't even know that's how that's legal. I mean, I know this. One on one, you're not allowed to expense clothes, doesn't happen. I pay for it myself. Another $100,000 in makeup and hair and makeup services and dry cleaning expenses? And so then the RNC says you're sexist. This is their response. They say your sex is for saying that you can't say that you shouldn't spend a $100,000 on hair and makeup and wardrobe, but here's the thing. Anyone who knows that if you do cable television, which I've done what and you're probably 607 hundred fox hits in the last decade, I think that's I think that's fair. Probably 6 or 700. Okay, Andrew thinks it's more. Probably 800 fox hits. 90% of the time, the station that you're going on will pay for your hair and makeup. I have never had to pay for my own hair and makeup. And they say, well, it's sexist because they're women and they need it. You know, that's what they say. That ronna needs it and you can't criticize it. I think that's an extraordinary expenditure. I think a $100,000 in hair and makeup and dry cleaning is not the best use of your money. And the private jet thing I'm going to say, let's just put that aside. If you're productive and you're doing lots of events, the private jet thing, let's just disqualify that from the conversation, okay? Now $1.3 million on limousine and chauffeur services. There's so much misallocation of money here. And guess what? The DNC, the Democrats, they're much more careful with.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"rnc" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"Hey everybody, today on the Charlie Kirk show. I go through my take on the RNC spending story and then Stephen Miller gives us an update from the border and some of his successful legal challenges email me your thoughts is always freedom at Charlie Kirk dot com. Support our program at Charlie Kirk dot com slash support. And get involved with turning point USA Today that's turning point USA at TP USA dot com. Buckle up everybody here. We go. Charlie, what you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus. I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running The White House folks. I want to thank Charlie. He's an incredible guy, his spirit, his love of this country. He's done an amazing job. Building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, turning point USA. We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries destroyed lives and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country. That's why we are here. Brought to you by the loan experts I trust, Andrew and Todd at Sierra Pacific mortgage at Andrew and Todd dot com. There was a powerful article that was published last evening by Jennifer van law. We're going to have her on the program in a little bit. Analysis of RNC spending since 2017. The only first by saying this begin by saying this. That when we analyze and we judge the Republican National Committee, the GOP, especially the committee itself, it must be held to a higher standard, it must be held to more scrutiny than almost any other organization and I'll tell you why. First of all, the Republican National Committee is a very regulated organization. The Republican National Committee can not receive unlimited donations. The top, the most that they can receive from a person or a couple, I believe, is $750,000 per year. Now you might say, well, Charlotte that's an extraordinary amount of money. It is, but super PACS, as you saw with George Soros, putting a 120 million in can raise a lot of money very quickly from small amounts of people. The Republican National Committee can also coordinate with campaigns. So the RNC can work with state committees that could work with the Arizona Republican Party. It can work with the Georgia Republican Party. The RNC can also pick up the phone and talk to the Herschel Walker campaign. Could talk to Donald Trump's campaign. They could do things called Jay V FCs. That's right. JFC is joint fundraising committees. For example, they did this with Donald Trump and it was called Trump victory. So used correctly and used properly. The Republican National Committee, the GOP, is able to go places that super PACS legally are not allowed to go. So for example, super PACS that you might see American crossroads, which was Karl rove's deal or priorities USA, which is a left wing one. They are not allowed to pick up the phone and work with campaigns. They are not allowed to pick up the phone and work with state committees. They have to be separate. They have to be walled off. They're not allowed to coordinate. The Republican National Committee and the Democrat National Committee because they are parties are the only organizations that are allowed to coordinate on messaging on strategy, on resources, on funding, and especially when it comes to the state committees themselves. Now, the Republican National Committee, because of that, is also able to get signatures for direct mail solicitations for emails and for text messages that other super PACS would not be able to get. For example, the Republican National Committee was able to have Donald Trump sign a lot of their fundraising emails. I'm sure many of you we did a lot of coverage on this would get relentless amount of emails saying ten minutes left, 5 minutes left, triple match. It was just nonstop. And so because of this, the Republican National Committee had an advantage to be able to raise a lot of money using Donald Trump's signature under the pretense that we are the Republican Party. Now, since the Republican Party, the RNC is not able to raise unlimited amounts of money from top level donors, every dollar they spend should be under harsher and greater scrutiny. That's not to say that if you're running an organization that can take unlimited donations, you should not be under scrutiny, I happen to run one of them, but when you are the party itself that can share data, volunteers, resources, walking lists, polling information with campaigns, every dollar matters. So there is a report that came out by Jennifer van laar that detailed some of the spending since 2017. Now, many of you watching this program have donated generously to the RNC in years past. Knowingly are unknowingly, by the way. The RNC is the hub. So therefore, if your hub starts misallocating money, if your hub does not spend money, wisely or prudently or correctly, it could impact all sorts of different campaigns and advocacy that you're involved in. You want to avoid even the appearance of poor spending. So last evening, there is a report that came out that showed the following. Now, some of this, I think, is being misunderstood. Some of this, I think, is not being not receiving enough criticism. So for example, some people are attacking the fact that the RNC spent $500,000 on private jets this last year. Now, if you're running a massive organization like the RNC and you have to go to events and you have to raise lots of money and you have to do multiple stops, I could see part of that. I could see that if you have tight windows and you got to go to, you know, weird locations..
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
"rnc" Discussed on ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
"I mean, what the heck? The RNC funds were also used to fly senior staffers and their plus ones get this first class to Las Vegas. And they covered hotel rooms, food, and the booze. Senior Stanford treats were held at the salamander resort and spa in Virginia. Oh, that's a highfalutin place. The FEC reports show that the RNC paid more than a quarter $1 million to the resort in 2021 and 2022. So just in case you're wondering where the money has been going because it's not going to the candidates. It's going to run a Daniel and the pottery barn, restoration hardware, crate and barrel, what does that have to do with getting Republicans elected? Under the current leadership, the RNC and reading from red state, the RNC has spent more than a $150,000 on what could be considered non-essential office expenses. $25,000 on Commonwealth Joe coffee. $25,000. How much does it cost for us to we serve free community coffee here when you come into our palatial studios, you're going to get a lovely caring cup, praline pecan as the flavor of choice this month, and what it costs what? 5 bucks? Down at the Costco? What are they paying $25,000 for? $7000 on cupcakes. $7000 on candles and diffusers. Well, you know, what does it smell at RNC headquarters? They have a nasty odor. They got a body odor problem there. Seems to me it might be cheaper to get some right card. $75,000 at the pottery barn west elm restoration hardware and create a barrel. In addition, the committee's FEC reports show expenditures totaling nearly $400,000 as furniture expense. And here comes the clothing. More than a $100,000 spent at high end clothing stores like Nordstrom. Vineyard vines. Foot joy. Is.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"rnc" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"Quantities won't last long, so please order now. This is a very basic question, but it's also an important one. We've had multiple people email us asking what does the RNC do and what should it do in its ideal sense because we get a lot of excuses, they raise $300 million, and then we're told that they don't have any money. So what do they do exactly? Well, the job of the RNC is to raise money and support state parties, support candidates. There's sharing of funds within our CC NRSC. It is to train volunteers. It is to train staffers. It is to support getting Republicans elected in every way possible. If there's more money, you do more stuff. You do more litigation. You hire more ground staff. RNC has a voter registration program, although in my opinion, the voter registration is best done at the state level at the precinct level. That's how I got started in politics here in of all places, San Francisco. I stood out in The Rain outside new citizen swearing in ceremonies and registered voters and I was able to say, hey, I live in your community. And I'm a voter here. Please join my party. And that's very effective. I'm not sure how effective other methods are, but you got people like Scott pressler out there outside the party doing like the Johnny appleseed approach of running around on his own time. And so I want to see the RNC. What I think it should be doing is inspiring our base with messaging that's not reacting to the Democrats are using the same 5 talking points. It is clear it is positive it is articulating what America can look like if we change if we elect the right leaders because that's like where we are right now. We do not have the right leaders even in our party in my opinion. And so we need to be raising prolific amounts of money inside the party, but also that needs to be part of a constellation of fundraising because you can be very effective using nonprofits to do some of these things. Some litigation can be done by nonprofits representing individuals or groups. Some activities in terms of registering voters can be done in particular areas through nonprofits. There's a lot of work that can be done efficiently with donor dollars. So are we, but you know, if your attitude is, I me, me, me, I want to raise as much money as I can. I don't care about the cost of fundraising being 40 plus percent. I don't care about the money being wasted on. 40 percent of their budget goes to fundraising? You know, some of it is more expensive than that. Some of it is less expensive than that. It's insane. There's a high cost of raising dollars. It's inefficient. And a lot of that is padding of consultant salaries. Those consultants support the current regime, okay? Those consultants supported the lab. I'll just be very honest, sorry to interrupt you. We raise a lot of money at turning point USA praise God. We have a 150,000 donors. We keep that below 6 to 7%. I mean, so somebody here is getting fabulously wealthy. Tyler, sorry to interrupt you, Harvey. Yeah. No problem. You're right. And that's a major issue. I think Harvey brought this up. Again, this is any, I'm a board member. I'm a we have a 168 board members, right? I'm a board member. I've one of a 160. It's a big board. But as a board member, as a stakeholder in the R&D, when you ask the question, are we effectively spending every dollar every dime that comes into the RNC? I can't say, I can't effectively say that the answer is yes. And that concerns me. Even for a chair that's coming into this. Ron has been here for many years. And if there's concerns there, that concerns me even more than if she was like a first year second final thoughts make the final case for the grassroots. And as I've said, we're opening this up to the grassroots. We want millions of people involved in this race. Hermit final thoughts. Okay, the final thoughts are a lot of members of the RNC on paper or majority of them have said, oh, I love what's happening at the RNC. I want to see more of that. And so they're supporting the current chair and her vision. There's not personal. But if they want change and they want us to see us have the best chance of winning in 24, they need to contact the three members of the RNC and chair, National Committee man, National Committee woman. In Arizona, they need to contact Tyler. And, you know, Lori Klein Corbyn and the chair Kelly ward. And they need to tell them, please vote for change. I demand that you do the fiduciary appropriate thing and vote for change at the RNC and tell me that you're going to do that. Give me that commitment and writing. And that's what I need to see happen. We need that pressure to go on the members to do the right thing and change. Whether it's me, Lee zeldin or Mike lindell or whoever, we have to have change at the RNC. I think I'm the best person to do it, but please let there be change. Scott pressler, who we all like is putting together a list. This will complete the point for everyone in the audience, a list of every member that you'll be able to contact. They work for you and these members a lot of them have never ever been put on the hot seat about time. We make the grassroots in charge, not the consultants. Our meat, God bless you, we'll see if you want to thanks for having me. Good luck, Harvey. Thanks so much for listening, everybody. Email me your thoughts as always freedom at Charlie Kirk dot com. Thank you so much for listening. God bless. For more, on many of these stories and news you can trust. Go to Charlie Kirk dot com..