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Charlie Kirk Today | Richard Baris: December 29, 2025 | Charlie Kirk Today | December 29, 2025

Brought to you in part by the
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International fellowship of christians and jews.
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Show.
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You know, it is not every day that,
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You get 31,000 grassroots activists in a space.
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I mean, these are door knockers.
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These your phone bankers?
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These are precinct committeemen.
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These are
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The grassroots volunteers that make the whole country work.
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They are the firewall to freedom.
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And one of the things that i don't think online,
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You get as much because you get the
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You get the sort of
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More intense statements made by some high profile
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People, you know, some of the infighting
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Or the division or whatever.
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One of the things i don't think people
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Appreciate enough, blake, was just
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How much christian faith was shared on that stage
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And within the people attending the event.
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And one of the best moments, i believe, is when matt shaw,
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Who plays third base for the chicago cubs
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Just a few weeks before charlie was murdered,
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I was with charlie at wrigley field,
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And we got to hang out with matt.
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Matt is a.
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It was a neighbor of charlie's in the offseason in phoenix,
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And he came and, he got a really amazing question.
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Let's go ahead and play it. great. great.
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He gave a great answer.
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172 how do you share jesus with your fellow teammates?
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The best thing that i can do isn't to talk to them
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And and disciple them, but
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It's to show what my beliefs look like in my life.
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And sometimes it's not a conversation,
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But it's simply the light
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That you shine around to other people.
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And because of how much love you have
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For other people and for jesus, it's going to show them,
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Hey, maybe this is something i'm interested in.
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Maybe this is something that can provide me
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Fulfillment in my life.
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And i hope that for everyone tha
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Just a beautiful moment.
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Really heartfelt, really simple.
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It's great, it's great.
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And i'm looking at the same people who i'm looking
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Now online at the same people
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Who freaked out that he went to the memorial.
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And of course they're freaked out.
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He went to this in the off season.
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They're just
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There's some really hateful, crappy baseball fans out there.
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But i'm very glad we know.
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Honestly,
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The loudest, critics probably have very sad lives.
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That's what i've been very, very sad.
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Blake, you know this grandma jeannie from chico?
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Not to be confused.
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Not to be confused with, you know,
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Totally different california towns we have.
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So, calver, snorkel
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The, i mean, this was an amazing,
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Amazing story because she gets accosted,
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As she's working at target, she's was retired.
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She came out of retirement.
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We found out to pick because she loved working with people.
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And here she is at target, wearing a red,
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Freedom shirt with charlie's name on it.
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Gets accosted, said that she's a racist, said
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That she's all these terrible things.
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And she just handled with such grace and humility.
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And of course, the internet went wild, wondering
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If we were going to have jeannie at turning point.
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And, i mean, i had reached out to her multiple other people.
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Glenn beck had reached out to her,
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Jack posobiec and benny johnson
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And so we were going to get jeannie at, amp fest.
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There was
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Come hell or high water we were going to get jeannie to
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To amp fest.
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And, there's a beautiful moment
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Here with glenn beck with jeannie on stage.
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Let's go ahead and play. cut. 173.
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She said she didn't understand why everybody was asking her
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For a selfie.
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Can you explain what you're curious about?
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What you don't understand.
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Because i'm just a normal person.
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And that is why you're here.
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Okay.
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This is we were talking backstage,
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And i said, when i was young, when i was your age,
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When she was your age,
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There wouldn't have been somebody like this up on stage
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Because it was the normal thing to do.
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Now it's not.
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And i, i just i wanted to thank you for being normal,
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Like, for me and.
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Thank you for being normal.
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Okay. all right.
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I should shout out, by the way,
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Because we mentioned it on the last thing.
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Her gibson goes up to $285,000.
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And if any of you feel inclined to donate to that, it's
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Gibson kokomo, jeannie from target gta.
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And i again, that's gibson kokomo jeannie from target.
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Give that a look.
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Maybe we can get that over 300,
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But we were super glad to see her.
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I think that was a great moment.
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It was a great moment.
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And again, just everyday people.
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That's what this event is about.
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And, you know,
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I spoke with jeannie backstage and i just said, you know,
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Are you going to go back to work for target?
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And, you know, she's like, well, you know, if i can.
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And i her daughter was with her.
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And i said, i said, jeannie, you know,
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I hope you'll because there was some concern
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That she would refuse the money.
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And, i told her daughter, i said, don't you dare
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Let her refuse the money like she's
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She's just i mean, no more deserving.
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We don't care what
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She does with us, but she shouldn't refuse it.
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Exactly.
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I just told i told jeannie, i said,
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Do something nice for yourself with it.
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Like, god bless you.
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Like, take like, do something nice.
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You know, whether that's like, fully retire or take a trip
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Or whatever it is, like we would
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People wanted to bless you and don't deny them
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Of the blessing of blessing you.
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And, she was really sweet about it.
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And, just a just a very, very, sweet, sweet moment.
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And, and she also went up on stage
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With jack posobiec and, benny johnson.
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That was the big reveal.
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And then,
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And i
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Love that glen got a chance on sunday
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To bring her back out on the stage.
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Yeah, you can see the b-roll right there.
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Benny johnson and jack.
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So she's
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She's just sitting there kind of going,
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Why does everybody care about me so much?
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And, and i think glenn said it.
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Well, because you're normal.
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Because in a world gone mad.
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Jeannie, you are normal and you're sweet and you're
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Kind, and you, you don't repay hatred with more hatred.
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You, you you repaid it with graciousness.
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And it was just a beautiful model.
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Yeah, that was the best thing about what she did.
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She doesn't.
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She doesn't own
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The woman who was filming her in some dramatic way.
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She was just she was just very kind to her and,
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Really acquitted herself very well in a very christian way.
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We're getting some great
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Emails, by the way, from some of you
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Who were at an fest or were merely watching it.
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I love, claire just sent us one into the inbox.
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So send us stuff at freedom. we're looking at it.
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I would like to take a minute to tell you
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How fabulous, totally fabulous this past weekend was.
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And looking at the magnificent crowd
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That gathered to honor charlie, i want to give a shout out.
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She gives a shout out to glenn
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Beck as well as to erica coming out with, nikki.
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She says rob schneider was equally amazing.
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It was an uplifting weekend,
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And the youth that were represented
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There were totally inspirational and dynamic.
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It was the best of the best, and i admire everybody
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In the turning point family who put that program together.
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I wish i was there to witness it.
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Well, pre-sales, i believe.
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I think i got an email from turning point yesterday
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That pre-sales for 2026 have opened,
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So we'd love to have you next year.
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Claire, and anyone else
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Who has thoughts, please send them in.
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Yeah, there was so many people, by the way, and i've.
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I've reposted some of them on my, my ex feed
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If you want to check it out there.
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But, you know, as a first time attendee, this is from walter.
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Kurt,
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I can confidently say this was the best
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Political event i've ever attended.
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Your staff was nothing but friendly and helpful.
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From the second i walked in to the moment i left.
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I will never miss another one. you should all be proud.
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Charlie would be an amen.
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That's that's a good note to end our one on.
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We hope, charlie.
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We hope we did charlie proud.
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It was, there was a lot going on. we hope we did.
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And proud rich barris.
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And the straw poll right back.
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The wounds from
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October 7th didn't fade when the headlines did.
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Behind me rises
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A new rehabilitation home for israel's wounded soldiers.
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One of many urgent projects israel needs right now.
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Entire communities shattered.
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Families displaced.
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And each day,
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The impact of the need grows even more overwhelming.
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But the bible says it clearly.
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The righteous will live by faith and by faith.
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The fellowship is rolling up our sleeves
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And stepping into this immense challenge.
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Helping mothers who don't know where to begin again.
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Standing with paralyzed heroes.
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Fighting to take their first steps.
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Building centers of healing for the wounded
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And the traumatized.
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Bringing food and comfort to elderly israelis
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Who have no one else to care for them.
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To see the life saving work of the fellowship.
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Unfolding across israel right now.
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Visit ifc's dawg.
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Visit ifc's dawg.
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And it is the hour that everybody's been waiting for.
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The results of our 20 2520 point
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Action, ama straw poll.
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So this is something
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We do at every am fest, and we've got, the
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We've got a major publication
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That's going to go live with it in just a second as well.
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And here to, unpack what we found from this straw
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Poll is the one and only rich barris
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Big data poll, who conducted it on our behalf.
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Rich, welcome back to the show.
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Thanks for having me, as always.
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Yeah, well, let's let's start.
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Let's start with your,
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Your reaction, your experience at amp fest.
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You were there.
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You, you and, mark mitchell led a breakout.
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Just, you know, 30,000ft view.
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What was it like in there?
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And maybe what
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What's the disconnect between maybe what some people
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Are saying online versus what you experienced in person?
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Well, first it visually and i know
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I actually know this to be a fact,
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But visually this looked like the biggest damn fest ever.
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And you could see it if you've been to an amp fest
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Before, this one was a just as a matter of attendance,
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And everything that was going on, was huge.
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It was huge.
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So congratulations on that because
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We're talking about a massive attendance, folks.
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And secondly,
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You know, the biggest thing that'll stand out is, you know,
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The, the media narrative and the infighting
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That they projected was going on over there.
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And we'll see this.
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But the results of the straw poll, yeah.
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People debate.
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And that's what turning point has always been about.
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But people there are people in attendance.
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Right.
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And the
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And the folks who were talking and interacting
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With people agree on so much more.
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And i mean, that's what it comes that this
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That's the biggest disconnect that the media as usual,
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Always projects, there was a lot
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More agreement than there was this, you know, disagreement.
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Yeah.
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And you, so some top level marks
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You were just telling me about is.
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So this was the youngest straw
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Poll result based on just who took the poll, right?
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It was,
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It skewed the youngest of any that we've ever had because,
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You know, even we struggle sometimes, rich,
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With getting the students to take the darn straw poll.
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This time we got lots, lots
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That just the average age of who took the poll was younger.
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So it's actually going to give us
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A more interesting insight in some ways about where
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Younger americans, younger conservative voters, younger,
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Younger base voters, where their heads are at right now.
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And it was also the most response responses
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That we've ever gotten at a straw poll.
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And what's what's
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Remarkable about of remarkable about that, rich, is that,
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You know, we intentionally delayed this
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Until we sent it out overnight after day three
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And into day four.
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We wanted people to have this full experience
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Before we ask them these questions.
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So the response rate
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On a relatively short turn was pretty remarkable.
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What?
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Just explain that from, from a pollsters perspective.
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Rich.
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Well, straw polls can be a bit of a pollsters
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Nightmare, right?
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Because as the pollster, you're like, i want to start early.
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I want to get this going.
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But you also want people to have the experience
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Before they answer some of these questions.
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And honestly, it'll become very evident
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When we show people
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Some of the questions, right, why
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We want people to hear things first, which can be challenged
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Because for people who are taking it and the pollster,
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Because you are now limiting yourself on the reaction time.
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So we expect a certain percentage.
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And just from experience, we know what that is.
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This blew up and you said it and i was going to say it
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If you didn't.
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This is the biggest america fest strong straw poll ever.
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It's a very large sample which means folks,
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It's representative.
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It's it's statistically significant.
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So, it i was over the moon,
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You know, i mean, as a, as a pollster,
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I was over the moon when i, you know, one minute
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You're logging in, you're seeing the responses
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Come in, the next minute you see an explosion.
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So i think, too,
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It also tells you that the respondents, andrew, also,
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We're kind of hanging back
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And saying, let me, you know, let me open it up.
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I'll take what i think i can.
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We always give people a little bit of time to complete it.
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And then once they had
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The experience, they felt it was sufficient for them.
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They they all filled it out almost at once.
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On that
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Last day, a huge amount came in, which was great for us.
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It really was
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We have much, much more from the straw poll to get to.
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We're going to get blake's take on it as well.
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That we asked a bunch of questions
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Much more to unpack with rich barris.
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We will be right back.
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That christmas morning.
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Wise men brought gifts from outside the holy land.
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But now that the war is over,
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This holy land and her people
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Are still carrying deep wounded.
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Many of the elderly are alone and suffering
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Like the wise men or wise women.
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When you open your heart and give a special holiday food
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Box to someone here in israel
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This christmas chronicles season.
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People like hannah who can't buy food.
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That's where the fellowship is called to feed the hungry.
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Please call, scan or go online now to help rush emergency
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Food and healing to elderly jews
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And their christian neighbors struggling
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To rebuild their lives from the war.
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What will happen when we make this holy day season?
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Holy indeed.
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Holy indeed.
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You know, i'm
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Toying with, everybody wants to know the the
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Who do we want as our 2028 gop nominee?
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I don't think anybody's you know,
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I'm toying with delaying it,
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But i think we just have to you know,
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I think we just have to do the reveal here.
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Rich. yeah.
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What what is not surprising is who won.
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But what is surprising is by what margin?
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So, you know, drum roll, please.
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Yeah. studio.
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Let's go ahead and throw up.
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Image 166.
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Who does the amp fest?
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Attendees.
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Who did they want as their 2028 gop?
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228 and that big old bar
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Right at the top is, of course, jd vance.
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The next closest was, marco rubio,
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The great secretary of state in the trump administration.
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And, rich, break this down.
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Jd vance is bif is running away with, the
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Who do we want as the 2028, gop nominee
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Explain the significance of that of that graph
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And the consistency of him polling at that level.
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I don't think he ever polled below
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75%, folks, that's well over a super majority.
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And i will tell you this, like we said just a moment ago,
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There were people who were waiting back, waiting to see.
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And when the vice president gave his speech,
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It just went to that level.
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Never look back.
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I mean, it was, you know, some people, you know, sitting
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Back, i can't wait to see what the vice president has to say.
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This has never happened, and this is never
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I've done a lot of straw polls and a lot of different events.
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We've done a lot and fast ones. right.
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This has never happened.
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There's never been such widespread agreement over.
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Because what are they really telling you
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When they're picking
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Who they want for the future nominee. right.
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What is the base?
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What is the turning point family telling you?
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This is the direction we want to go in the future.
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This is what we want
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For the future of the movement, for the future of the party.
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And they're,
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You know,
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The media wanted to talk about all of the different factions
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In the in the coalition. right.
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This is near.
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Yeah.
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You know, it's nearly unanimous.
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I mean, it's overwhelming.
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And we asked a lot of other questions.
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It doesn't matter what the answers
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For different demographic groups,
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How one favored other, something over the other.
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It doesn't matter when it comes to this question.
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Who do you want for your nominee?
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Everybody is in agreement.
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There's not a single group
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That's disconnected or has a different opinion.
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You know, always. and this is statistics.
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You're always going to have marginal,
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Support for something over and on the right.
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I mean, that's just the way it works.
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This is about, as you know, uniformity as you get
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Close to uniformity as you get.
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So just so people have the exact numbers, it's 84.2%
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Chose jd vance.
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Yeah, 4.8%.
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So just under 5% chose marco rubio, 2.9%
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Chose ron desantis, 1.8% chose don jr,
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3% chose ted cruz, and 0.4% chose youngkin.
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I'm not sure why the orders got swept the swap there, but,
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So that is basically the field, you know, undecided.
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Was it 2.5% and, that we had 3.1%.
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Right, right.
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So i don't know if there was anybody worth mentioning
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In the right in section rich, but that that is,
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You know, that the field that people most, predict for 2028,
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There is something worth, worth mentioning.
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All right.
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And that is, there is there
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Are, more than a few responses for donald j.
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Trump for a third term.
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Right.
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But again, i mean, you're going to get that some.
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And that's just shows you
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How much the president is loved right by the base.
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But there's, outside of that, you know,
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There's a representation, a libertarian wing,
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You get a few for thomas massey and stuff like that.
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But it's not, you know, you can see the percentage guys
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Collectively what that comes to, it's still not that much.
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I mean, this poll, the results of this poll are very clear.
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We don't get results like this.
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It just doesn't happen.
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Hey, rich, have a question.
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In the history of a turning point,
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Straw poll that you've conducted,
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Have we ever seen a question like this get, you know,
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Have a front runner with this much margin of victory?
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Nope. that's what i was just about to say.
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Especially.
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I mean, could you imagine this early we did turning point
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Straw polls going into 24 even.
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And it was a robust field with some pretty, you know,
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Significant debate between who do we want, ron desantis?
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Do we want president trump?
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President trump was always winning that,
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And winning it overwhelmingly.
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But in this early particularly,
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It's not because we don't have a vision
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Of where other candidates would take the party.
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Andrew, that's not what's going on here.
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It's that people do understand the differences.
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And in whatever, you know, minor major,
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And maybe they understand it.
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They're choosing jd vance.
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They're choosing the vice president. yeah, that.
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So, blake,
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I promised you that you are going to get to do
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The big reveal.
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It is about to be.
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It's about ready to be thrown up.
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So, i don't know. you want to take it away?
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Yeah.
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Yeah, it'll be ready by the time, get to it.
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We were.
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We actually shopping?
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What questions to put into the straw poll.
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We just did it the night.
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I think saturday night,
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We were talking about what to put into it.
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And obviously we had the stuff we've had debates
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Over the past year
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About america's relationship with israel,
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How it relates to stuff in the middle east.
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We had people bring it up on stage.
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It was a recurring theme in our member exclusives interviews.
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So we just said, throw in to the attendees
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What best describes what your view of israel is?
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Do you view them as our number one
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Ally, as just one ally of many?
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Or do you think they're not an american ally, which some,
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Prominent figures have said?
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And do we have that result ready to throw up?
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Yeah, let's throw up.
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178 and i think the result was pretty refreshing.
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You got you said 33% said it was a top our top ally,
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53% went for one of many and 13% said not an ally,
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That there are,
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You know, basically, at best, a neutral
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Or perhaps even a hostile country. to us.
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This is a take you hear a lot on line.
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It's a take. you hear a lot on x, it's a take.
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Some influencers really push.
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But i don't think it's a really it's taking over the gop
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In the way that a lot of critics have tried to argue.
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Yeah, so so rich.
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If you go online, you would be entirely surprised
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By the fact that within, you know, statistically
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Significant sample
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Of the youngest and the youngest sample set
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That we've ever had from an amish straw poll,
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That 13.3% like you, if you went online,
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You would think it would be like 5050.
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What do you make of of this poll result
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And what's your message to the gop?
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With this in mind?
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You know, neither laura or i were surprised by this.
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And we were thinking and comparing it to what we see.
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And it really has been a trend, with the general public,
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Not just among, you know, the base of the republican party.
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I look, the internet is real, but it doesn't necessarily mean
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That it's really representative ryan.
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I mean, that's the difference.
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People have to
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Keep reminding themselves when they see
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These narrative wars in these pushes online.
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This is basically representative
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Two of what we heard walking around and talking to people.
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I mean, andrew, and same thing
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With winning the midterms, by the way.
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That was the number one question
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I got walking around talking with different people.
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They would say, oh, this is, you know, great.
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And i understand the debate,
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But we really, you know, what can we do to win?
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We want to win. that was overwhelming.
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Well, just walking around the place.
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So especially among younger people.
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So that's something they'll have to come to grips with.
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But it doesn't mean there's
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This outward hatred or anti-semitism ism.
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It's just like, hey, look,
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We have been put last for a very long time.
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We just want to be put first.
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And we don't really think, that, you know, questioning
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The old orthodoxy or the right is, is a bad thing.
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As this year draws to an end,
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I'd like to express my
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Heartfelt gratitude to our partners, the fellowship
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Of christians and jews.
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And i'd like to say thank you to our audience
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Who have supported them in prayer, with finances
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And standing strong for the people of israel.
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The fellowship is one of america's
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Most beloved
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Organizations, spanning more than 40 years of ministry,
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Providing tangible help
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And comfort to the people of israel
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In the ukraine and across the former soviet union.
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This holiday season and every day of the year,
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The fellowship is called to serve
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The elderly jewish people,
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Many of whom are holocaust survivors who are now
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Living in the shadow of past wars, poverty and loneliness.
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During this christmas time, join me and fulfill
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The prophet isaiah as cry to comfort.
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Comfort my people, says your god.
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To find out how. visit ifg.
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Org. that's if c.j. dawg.
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Richard Baris: December 29, 2025 | Charlie Kirk Today

December 29, 2025 | S25 E1229 | 25:2

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