Ask Charlie Anything 224: Chinese All-Cash Buyers? Biggs for Arizona? Conquering California?

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It is a beautiful Friday here. We have the members call. That is members.charlicirk.com, members.charlicirk.com. If you want to join the show, you can become a member. Ask whatever you'd like. Our first member question is from Donna. Donna, thank you for being a member.

Happy Friday. What is on your mind? I'm just curious, when you go to the colleges and universities, how many of those students come to faith when you're there? Great question.

You have a little bit of a reverb, Donna, so we're going to mute you while I answer that question. So the answer is quite a few. Now we don't tabulate it, but I would make an argument that, because we get hundreds of emails, thousands of testimonials, people that are constantly saying, Charlie, I'm going back to church because of it, because of you, because of your videos, because of your campus attendance. I would say at least thousands, and we had well over 38,000 people that attended in person my campus event this semester. In fact, our team, yesterday we had a really great C-level meeting at Turning Point USA. They had a great report. A hundred thousand students attended our events in person this semester.

I want you to think about that. A hundred thousand students attended our events in person this semester on campuses across the country, and that doesn't include high school. That is a remarkable accomplishment, everybody.

Remarkable. When you have a hundred thousand students that attend your events in person, no one comes close. I'm not here to criticize the other Christian campus groups, but I will say this. I never see them on campus usually. I don't think they're really moving the dial. I don't think that they're really preaching the gospel in the way that is biblical and scriptural, and I would make an argument that what we are doing, even though we are not a quote-unquote ministry the way that like Young Life is, I think that what we are doing is actually bringing more people to faith, more people to a belief in God, than even some of these very well-funded Christian ministries on campuses are. Not trying to criticize Campus Crusade and all that, but I don't see them on campus.

I don't feel their vibe. There really is no aura where we're able to draw thousands of people and talk about the Lord, talk about Jesus, and of course talk about America, conservative principles, to bring back purpose. It goes back into one of my favorite books. I encourage everybody in this audience to read this book.

If there are like five books you should read in life, this is one of them. It is Man's Search for Meaning. Viktor Frankl makes an explicitly biblical argument and spiritual argument in the book, which is outside of food and outside of water, man's greatest need is meaning. It is not sex, it is not notoriety, it is not popularity, it is purpose and it is meaning. In fact, he proves in the will to meaning in this book, Man's Search for Meaning, he proves that in the concentration death camps of which he was subject to it, the people that happen to live at a much higher correlation and survive terrible sicknesses and diseases were ones that had the meaning. And there's a lot of scientific data to show this, that you can literally die of a broken heart, that people that give up hope, they're more likely to die, more likely to have their body just give up, that your immune system is actually tied to your purpose and your teleological aim.

So the answer is quite a few. Give their life to the Lord and we hope that to have that increase, and I only wish that there were evangelists willing to go so into the harvest right now, but I'm not seeing it. I'm not seeing enough pastors, I'm not seeing enough people on campus that are willing to lean into this moment.

Instead, I see far too much wokeism and the weak fake gospel being taught on many of these campuses. Jeff, thank you for being a member at members.charliekirk.com. What is on your mind?

Hello Charlie, thanks for all you do. In my humble opinion, Carrie Lake should be this current sitting governor of Arizona, but that didn't happen because of voter fraud. And I am all for Andy Biggs, but in your opinion, has enough been done to clean up voter fraud in Arizona so that Andy Biggs and other mega candidates can actually be elected and put into office? Great question.

So the first answer is we don't know, but probably yes. And the reason being, of course, President Trump won the state by nearly 200,000 votes. And it's because we embraced early voting and we did ballot chasing, which increases our ability to not have a bunch of machines fail on Election Day. So I think we proved in 2024 that we can win statewide. Also, just so we are clear, we just had a major legal decision where we just removed a bunch of non-citizens and questionable people from our voter rolls here in Arizona. A huge decision that was not covered, but look, no election is going to be perfect.

Nothing is going to be, you know, 100 percent precise. But this is a fact and this is why I believe Andy Biggs can be governor of Arizona. Of course, obviously, and that's why we endorsed him, is that Donald Trump won the state in Arizona more than any other battleground state. It's the best performing battleground state. That's remarkable. And we won House seats and we won legislative seats.

And it was large in part thanks to our turning point action ballot chasing operation. So Andy Biggs is a disciplined guy. He's a conservative guy. He's a family guy.

And I will also notice this. Some people say, well, Andy Biggs can't win a general election. Well, first of all, Andy Biggs is the only person running who's actually ever been elected to something.

So that's a weird contention. Number two, be careful thinking that a more moderate candidate can automatically win statewide. Just say that to Senator Martha McSally. She lost twice statewide being a moderate candidate from Tucson.

Didn't work. Thirdly, do you know that one out of all three people in the Phoenix metro area live in the East Valley? It is a largely forgotten ingredient to the Arizona political formula.

The East Valley, of course, is Mesa, Chandler, Gilbert, Queen Creek. This tends to be a very Mormon population. Andy is LDS. They tend to have undervoted for Republicans in recent years. They have significantly undervoted.

The main reason being is they might not like Trump or they were too tied to Jeff Flake or whatever. Andy will run up the score in the East Valley. And that is in Mesa and Chandler and Apache Junction.

Why? He represents that area. And he is very well respected. He was a state legislative candidate there, an office holder there. So for all those reasons, and I believe that Andy Biggs could actually be a better election candidate versus a more moderate candidate. And let me make a third argument, is that if we are trying to rebuild the Trump coalition where Trump won this state by nearly 200,000 votes, yes, of course, moderates matter.

But do they matter as much as the hundreds of thousands of working men that may not vote in the midterms? I can make an argument someone more in the Trump mold in November of twenty twenty six in a statewide election is actually more likely to defeat Katie Hobbs than someone that is a more moderate kind of lookalike of Katie Hobbs. Nothing against the attempt to try to run a more moderate candidate.

I know the intent. The intent is like, look, we want to win back the governor's mansion. But I would actually say that Andy Biggs being more conservative is not a disadvantage. It is it is actually an advantage to winning the governor's race in Arizona or else the plumbers, the welders, electricians, the young men on campus that I talked to, they are going to need a reason to go vote. And a more MAGA type candidate is one in a lower turnout election like we are going to see in twenty twenty six versus twenty twenty four.

Some like Andy Biggs is, in my opinion, no brainer. So one out of three voters from the East Valley and not to mention the rules. If you run a more moderate candidate, the candidate, the counties like Cochise and Yuma, the candidate, the counties that are very, very conservative, they tend to have a underrepresentation.

They tend to undervote. And we want to see candidates that are able to communicate in Yavapai, which is a very conservative candidate, and run up the score there to answer your question. Yes, I have full faith that Andy Biggs can win. We've made some changes we need to make even more. But President Donald Trump winning by two hundred thousand votes in twenty twenty four is evidence that a Republican can win statewide here in Arizona. And I hope to win back the attorney generals, the secretary of state and the governors. And Andy Biggs being at the top of the ticket will give us a great advantage to do that and will help us tremendously to make J.D.

Vance the forty eighth president of the United States in twenty twenty eight, because this state will matter significantly in the twenty twenty eight. Matt, let's go to our next member here, Matt. Matt, thank you for being a member. How you doing? Hey, Charlie, can you hear me?

Yes, I can. Wonderful. Well, good afternoon here on the East Coast.

And thanks for everything you do. My question would be around the candidates for Georgia and North Carolina, certainly capital states. I'm obviously choked, I think, probably with pressure along with the kind of the Sununu GOP establishment type kind of crew to keep MAGA from advancing in twenty eight or twenty six. Any thoughts on Canada and Georgia and North Carolina?

So so keep going. Sorry. No, just any thoughts on do we have any candidates in the works? I know Georgia's bench is pretty light. North Carolina has got a couple of options.

Clearly, it's one of our strongest state parties with Wylie, Laura, et cetera. Yeah. You know, it's interesting.

I know that's a great question. So, yeah, thank you. Sorry. The connection was not great for me. The feedback was there.

Not your fault. So Michael Watley is the chair of the RNC. I like Michael Watley. I get along great with him and he's been very good to me. He's been a very honest broker.

I got to be honest, a big upgrade from Rana. Michael's always been a straight shooter. He's from North Carolina. I think, look, if Tom Tillis doesn't run, look, I only hesitate. Do we really need another bloody primary? Maybe we do, because maybe we just got to make an example out of Tom Tillis.

What he did to Ed Martin was so wrong and was just so inexcusable. And so I think Michael Watley would be a Trump loyalist. He'd be great. I have no idea if Michael Watley would be as conservative as I'd like.

But who knows? Honestly, he could win. Tillis is no good. And so I think I don't think Laura Trump will do it, but I think Michael Watley would would be a phenomenal potential replacement there, someone who could win a general election, someone who's got the Trump endorsement. So I think I think Watley would be someone worth considering for sure.

Thank you, man. And I'm sorry, Charlie, with Kemp, with Kemp not running. I mean, our Georgia bench is even lighter than North Carolina on a statewide level with Raffensperger and Duncan, all those guys.

And Chris Carr, you know, the whole the whole team there. I mean, I don't even know. Would Collins consider leaving the VA? I mean, is there anybody that can win a statewide out there? Yeah, man, that's such a good question. You know, who I wanted was David Perdue. But David Perdue is the U.S. ambassador to China because Perdue was former. Yeah, keep going. Yeah, sorry.

Is a Loeffler redex an option? I mean, I know we're kind of scraping the bottom here, but Ossoff is he is just a nobody. And he's a fool just like he's sort of like a theater kid, white Obama. And he does and he needs to be beat. Georgia is our state. And he's very beatable with the right candidate.

He is very, very beatable. I don't have a great answer for you. I don't know Georgia politics that well. Marjorie Taylor Greene has declined running. So she has said she's not going to run.

So it's a kind of open question. And I would love to see a good candidate kind of pop up. Honestly, I think that if we just kind of run a normal Georgian, no novelty stuff. I think we got a good chance.

I think that the state wants just kind of a normal Georgian type candidate. So thanks so much, man. Thanks for being a member. God bless you.

Happy Friday. Let's go to David. David, what is on your mind?

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David, how are you? OK, good question here. Got two questions.

We're in communist California and we want to know how we can battle the rogue judges. We have a we have a boy running in a girls event. I'm aware of it.

The AC Hernandez, AB Martinez. Yes. And what's your thoughts on that? How do we how do we. You know. How do we how do we. How do we corral it, I guess.

Well, first of all, your governor, who told me that he doesn't like men and women's sports, should do something about it. I actually texted him this morning. I'm not going to say what I texted out of.

I want to have some level of confidentiality there in case he actually does something. I'm not holding my breath. But essentially, I'll tell you the essence of it. You said you're against this.

Why don't you stand up against it? I want to actually keep you up to the break. There is a piece of tape that I sent this morning that of this this man bragging about how he's going to win the state title.

I sent it this morning. Is it OK? Let's play.

Is that even registering as you're competing? Honestly, no, I'm still child. You're an adult. And for you to act like a child is shows how you are as a person. It's nothing I can do about people's actions.

Just focus on my own. On Saturday, other competitors beat Hernandez in two of her three events. She won first place in triple jump. She is not currently ranked nationally and she has been outperformed by over two meters in her jumps by girls competing in states that have banned gender affirming care.

All I thought was I don't think you understand that this puts your idiotic claims to trash. Now you have no proof that I can't be beat. No, no, you lost to a girl.

You lost to a girl. We'll be right back. Charlie Kirk here.

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Visit Burna to learn more. That is BYRNA dot com. And just to be clear, that A.B. Hernandez is probably going to win the state championship. And just so we are clear, not every single man can biological man can beat a biological woman in every single competitive sport.

However, eight hundred and ninety medals have been stolen and this man is likely going to win that accomplishment. And so the moral, the moral insanity and the perverse nature of the left is on full display and likely going to win the state championship. And of course, Democrats are doing nothing about it and the judges are doing nothing about it because the world view of the left rejects any distinctions of male, female. They reject any male, female distinctions. They do not exist. They believe they are constructs, not biological realities. We believe that there are biological realities rooted in the natural law designed by a creator.

They believe they're just social constructs. So I don't have a good call to action other than we need to just keep on making a big stink out of it. But this man is likely going to steal and to cheat a medal away from a woman. I actually believe of all the culture war issues. I'm the most optimistic here. I think we're going to win this one in the long run. They made the full culture war push and they failed.

It was too ridiculous. And honestly, I mean, the Democrats, the fact that they are holding on to this, it's only going to continue to be a political win for us in the midterms and a political win for us in the general election. So the more they hold on to it, the worse they're going to be politically. But eventually, I think we are going to deliver a final death blow to this cult. I really believe it. I think we're going to win in the wrong run. I think it is so outrageous. It's so ridiculous.

It's such an affront to our senses that I do think we're going to win. So one more question. One question. So say she wins the state title. She's jumping. Actually, she's jumping the triple jump. She's four feet longer than the second place.

So what happens to that? She gets this, she gets this title or she gets this record. What, what girl is going to beat that? Right.

It's just, I have to keep correcting. It's not a woman. It's a, he just yeah. It's a he, right. But no, no woman is going to beat that.

And that's the point is that male female distinctions mean nothing. And they're going to, they're going to receive the, the metal with no contention whatsoever. We just have to fight it in the press. We have to fight it in the culture.

And one day we will win. Thank you so much, David. Next question. Gracie.

Thank you. Bring a member members.charliekirk.com. What's up? Hi, Charlie. This is actually Gracie's mom. I'm Lisa.

Hi. Gracie had called in and you were telling us about the red state paradox. We're in Texas.

Yes. And Texas has gone insane. What can we do to get the Republican party back on track with the Trump administration?

I mean, we are so far left right now. It is, and they've, they're putting rubber snakes on the floor of the, the house. And so, so that the speaker can say, see, I wasn't calling y'all snakes.

There's snakes all over the floor. It's just childish, petty craziness. And our Republican leadership on the local levels say, oh, well, we don't, don't use the term rhino. That's not nice. Don't call out fake Republicans.

That's not nice either. And it's counterproductive. So if we're not supposed to call them out or we're not supposed to call them fake Republicans or rhinos, how are we supposed to root them out and get a Republican party that's red again instead of purple?

Great question. You are a victim of your own success and you are a great listener and member because the fact you mentioned the quote red state paradox warms my heart, which means that something I'm saying is being listened and internalized. So if people understand the red state paradox is when a state becomes too red and becomes too conservative, it actually can work against you because then the Democrats run as Republicans and there is not a competitive Republican Democrat dynamic. Therefore they infiltrate the Republican party. And these are people that just want to be elected to anything. They are, they are the kind of quasi narcissistic sociopathic types that will do whatever possible to get political power and say the things and learn the phrases and learn the mantras, and they will infiltrate your party.

Can I give you an example? Former Democrat county chair all the way back to Carter party swapped, ran as a Republican, got elected as a Republican judge because his wife went on Facebook and said, hey, all of my liberal friends go grab a Republican ballot and vote for my husband. And these are all people that support abortion.

I mean, it's all over their social media. So but the local Republican Party said, oh, we don't want to do anything about that. I have some recommendations. And part of it is that Texans have to start acting like Texans again. They learn the history of Texas. Number one, you have to get involved in your local Republican Party. That is number one. Number two, as the state continues to get more conservative, it's very clear of what a Republican actually stands for and what that means.

And a great example, and I'll just kind of leave it here because I could do a whole show on this, is the fact that more Republicans are not up in arms about epic city, East Plano, Islamic city that is put in Plano. And you're aware of this. Let me ask you. I mean, you're a member. You're tied into this.

You're smart. How many of your fellow Texans either know about it or are read into it or have concern about it? Everyone that I talk to has concern about it. The problem is we can raise all kinds of cane. But and I am involved in our local Republican Party.

We were in great. We try and be as active as we possibly can because we're trying to raise the alarm. You know, what is going on here?

But the people that are in leadership in our local Republican parties are very like I said, don't don't say rhino, don't say fake Republican. Everyone needs to get along. And I don't know how to fight a battle if you're not fighting. I agree. Well, look, listening to this program and being a member helps, I hope, fortify your world view and strengthen you. But you guys, you are in the middle of a good problem.

And let me just leave you off with some encouragement. It is much better to be stuck in a red state paradox than a blue state terror. Our listeners right now in Colorado and in Illinois and in New Jersey, to some extent and to Rhode Island, they say, I wish that we had a red state paradox. You have a good problem.

Your problem is much easier to fix than the California and the Hawaii problem. Thank you. God bless you. Thanks for being a member. Trey, thank you for being a member.

Members dot Charlie Kirk dot com. What's on your mind? A long time.

No talk, Charlie. How are you? Been doing great. How are you? Good. Good. Well, I just wanted to say thank you. I've I feel like I haven't gotten the chance to formally thank you for April 7th, man. That was the largest we had the largest event ever held on Green Street at the University of South Carolina. I mean, the energy and the crowd was completely unmatched, wasn't it? And Trey, I have to just say I'm sorry about the lightning.

I would have stayed for three to four hours. I hope you know that. But so first, before you get your question, educate the audience, I believe you're our turning point chapter leader, is that right?

At Columbia, is that correct? And so former former chapter president, I just graduated this past Friday. Very good.

I love the adherence to the technicalities, but you're still the turning point chapter leader in my mind. Talk about what happens when we do one of these events. What is the impact?

What is the vibe? What is the ripple effect when we come and do an event on a college campus? Walk our audience through that.

Absolutely. So I mean, when when we bring Charlie out to when we brought Charlie out to Green Street, it was just a completely unmatched energy from the crowd. I mean, we had 1600. That was probably it was probably one of the it was the biggest crowd that we've had on or the biggest event that we had on that street. But all in all, I mean, we everyone is so everyone in that crowd was so open minded to just hearing what you have to say. And you're able to just change a lot of minds and a lot of perspectives we saw. I mean, we've completely since the seventh, I mean, we've completely changed the culture on campus. So talk about that. Talk about what happens post leaving. That's what gives me the real the real affirmation.

Please continue. Those that were independent started to shift more conservative and the conservatives became even stronger conservatives. I mean, it the the impact and the effect that it had on on the students was just it's crazy. It's unlike it. That crowd was unlike anything that I've ever seen. And I've seen so much, you know, positivity from people. I've gotten so many thanks and gratitude for bringing you out to campus that day. And it warms my heart. It really does warm my heart.

Charlie, this organization has changed my life, man. Um, it's, and, you know, students are just so much more, you know, like, open to talking about their people are a lot more on this campus specifically, like people are much more, you know, like, open to talking about their conservative beliefs and either and for Democrats as well. It's like they're all open and willing to discuss, you know, whatever's on their mind. And that's what I really tried to make our weekly chapter meetings about is just engaging in and facilitating, you know, civil conversations and debates.

So it's been great. That's it's a beautiful testimony. Thank you for that. And I don't know, what do you plan to do now that you're graduate? Then we'll get to your actual question. Um, well, I actually just applied for this political organization.

I don't know if you heard of it, but it's called Turning Point USA. I'll put in a good word. I'll put put in a good word. Um, and I'm sure we'll be following up. What I'm also I'm also considering getting my I'm getting my broker's license within the next year or so as well.

So I'm going to be studying over the summer and then probably practicing in South Carolina or Florida. Well, we'll see what happens. You present yourself very well. You got a great spirit about you and you rolled with all the punches on that torrential downpour day in Columbia, South Carolina.

I'll never forget it. What? Yeah. Yeah. Please, Trey, what is your question?

We want to make sure we get some other members, but phenomenal testimony. What's on your mind? Right, right, right.

Um, so. When we when I actually was invited onto the webinar with Secretary Besson, it got me thinking that there were a lot of real I remember he was addressing the housing crisis and how we're going or how the Trump administration is, you know, taking measures to ensure that. We're bringing or we're bringing manufacturing back into the U.S. with I'm fading right now, but, you know, bringing and bringing steel and semiconductors back into the U.S. or back into the U.S. for manufacturing domestically. But really what caught my eye or what caught my ear was the housing crisis. I feel like there's I feel like people my age are being forced to rent because of bigger corporations buying houses. And those corporations are forcing, you know, people my age, Gen Z-ers to rent and not buy. But we want to buy. So my question to you is the Trump administration. Taking any actions to mitigate this, what I'm what I could call a renting crisis where bigger corporations, you know, won't or will stop buying up houses and, you know, urban and suburban areas.

So, yes. So homeownership, by the way, is critically important. We want people to own. This is by by a tangent, by the way, tangent, by the way, why we went so hard on the Invest America idea earlier in the week. We're going to have a whole nother program when I get back from the debating at Oxford and Cambridge about the Invest America, because owning stuff matters. It's worth considering the penalties on the ownership of tons of housing by large firms. I would I think that a prohibition on major firms buying single family homes is something we should entertain, because the problem is this, is that there are kids that are then being outbid of their dream home by Chinese cash buyers and major private equity firms with 10 trillion dollars. Blackrock comes in and buys a home, buys a single family home.

And a young person's like, well, I finally got to think about how tragic this is. There's this young couple that I know of in Phoenix and their combined family income is about one hundred ten thousand dollars a year. They're doing pretty well. I mean, that's in today's economy.

It's not as well as it used to be. But and they really want to own a home. And they found their home and they went to the bank and they had to wrangle the bank. It was months of meetings with the bank and back and forth with the bank. And finally, they were able to get a loan approval.

And it was like their dream. And so they go and they put an offer on the house. And as soon as they finally have that house and everything is finalized, they get a phone call from the realtor.

Sorry, you've been outbid by a cash offer by five percent. The house is now gone. And so then they go back to the bank and they have to go back to this whole process.

And so they have to go find another house that fits their criteria. This is happening every single day. Real families of young people are being outbid by major corporations and foreign buyers.

I'm sorry. There's something fundamentally morally wrong with that. I'm a free market guy. I'm all about free markets. You will cease to have free markets if people don't own stuff. It is definitionally prerequisite numero uno to a market, which is owning, not renting.

It's a no brainer. So while I'm not like excited to have prohibitions on who can buy what, number one, I think we can all agree the Chinese Communist Party coming in with cash buyers should not happen. I think President Trump should sign an executive order prohibiting foreign nationals from China to be able to buy single family homes. I bet he could do that by just a national security executive order.

I've no idea the technicalities of it, but I bet he could. Number two, which is more complicated, is why is it that our young people that we have a social compact to that we have sewed into then have to go into the world. They have tons of student loan debt.

They've done everything right. They get married. They're 28 years old and they want to start a family and they have to go pile together all of their savings from families, from their family and maybe even take out a loan from a family member to just get the down payment for their dream home and poop to the poop, the American dream gets stolen by a major firm.

I'm sorry, that's insane. When you rent and you don't own, it creates a different incentive structure. You view things differently.

You do not make improvements on a rental. You don't have the same sort of honor or pride or understanding or connection to the asset. You don't have the same community. And I just keep going back to this. And Trey, thank you for the question.

I know we spend a lot of time on this, but you're terrific. I keep going back to this mantra that was repeated by people I don't like. And they told us that you will own nothing and you'll be happy. I'm sorry, that creepy statement keeps on repeating in my head. And then I look at the purchasing of all these homes to rent back to kids.

I say, is that what they meant? I'm sorry. I remember that. I remember that. I want young people to own lots of homes and to flourish.

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And that is much more than I thought I would say previously. You can elect a a non-Democrat governor of California. Might have to be an independent. I endorse Steve Hilton. Steve Hilton is great. Even though I've endorsed Steve Hilton, I'll say if Caruso runs for governor as a Democrat, that would be very interesting.

I'm just going to be honest. A lot of people in California are upset with the status quo. Cost of living is too high. Homelessness, wealth gap, housing prices. Am I optimistic?

No, but I give you a 20 to 25 percent chance if the stars align. And why is that? San Francisco and L.A. are such heavy beasts to overcome. If you just look at the numbers, it is so it's so overwhelming. It's so difficult. Someone puts in our chat.

They're hell holes. Yes. OK.

I mean, yeah, that's one way to put it. All right. I was over there in Arizona. Yes. Keep going.

Arizona with my husband to for the commit one hundred over in October. Thank you for doing that. We got to meet you in your studio. Yes, I remember that. Yes, yes, yes, yes.

It was your anniversary or your birthday or something. Yeah, exactly. Yes. Would we be able to use a TP commit one hundred up here for governor? Yeah, we are. We are. The Turning Point Action app will be operational in all 50 states. And so we're excited to roll that out. Although we will not have people on the ground full time in California, we will have activists like you.

And I could not. California is like a second home. Don't tell the California franchise to export that. But it's like a second home in the sense where I spend a lot of time there, give a lot of speeches. There are a lot of friends there.

My pastor is there. We vacation there. And I want to see California safe. There's still a phenomenally amount, millions of decent people in California.

I can't say the same about Massachusetts. I'm getting no. All right. Forward to seeing you on June 30th. Thank you. Look forward to it as well. Yeah. That's Pastor Rob McCoy's retirement party.

Looking forward to that. Joseph. Joseph, what is on your mind? You're the final question this week. Members dot Charlie Kirk dot com.

Hi, Charlie. Do you know if there's any plans or actions or plans, even financial burden of child care, making it easier for parents to have more time at home or just trying to lower costs out there? I say this because my wife's not the officer and while I'm a CVP officer and having two hour drive each way on top of that, it's just it starts to kill us financially. Yeah.

I mean, look, first of all, God bless you guys. I actually want it. I would love to do a longer conversation about this. It is increasingly economically impossible for the wife to stay at home. And that is bad for the country.

It is bad for America. If the wife wants to stay at home and the mom wants to stay at home and you can't make that happen. I do encourage families to think outside the box, try to really live within your means, vacation locally, use coupons, homeschool. I will say this, that at Turning Point USA, we already offer three months maternity leave. We just had a meeting.

We're probably going to extend that to six months for people that have been around for a certain while. We look through all the legal technicalities, but we want to be the most pro family organization in the country. And I have a lot of more thoughts on this, but it's more of a macro tragedy that it is not economically simple for a father to work and support the family. And the wife or the mother has to go back into the workforce. There is something structurally wrong with our economic configuration. If moms are able to give birth and then 90 days, they have to be back at a cubicle.

I find something wrong with that. Thanks so much for listening, everybody. Email us as always freedom at charliekirk.com. Thanks so much for listening. God bless. For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to charliekirk.com.