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Fixing the Fickle Base + AMA 280

The Charlie Kirk Show

September 25, 2026

The midterm elections will be decided by whether core GOP voters either turn out again like they did in 2024, or sit at home and let the far left who hate them take power once again. What motivates their decision? Kane of Citizen Free Press gives his latest read.

Speakers Charlie Kirk, Andrew, Blake, Kane, Vivek Ramaswamy, Amy Acton, Abby, Jean-Claude, Bob, Don, Russ

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Charlie Kirk (0:03)

My name is Charlie Kirk. I run the largest pro-American student organization in the country, fighting for the future of our republic. My call is to fight evil and to proclaim truth. If the most important thing for you is just feeling good, you're going to end up miserable. But if the most important thing is doing good, you will end up purposeful. College is a scam, everybody. You got to stop sending your kids to college. You should get married as young as possible and have as many kids as possible. Go start a Turning Point USA college chapter. Go start a Turning Point USA high school chapter. Go find out how your church can get involved. Sign up and become an activist. I gave my life to the Lord in fifth grade. Most important decision I ever made in my life, and I encourage you to do the same. Here I am, Lord, use me. Buckle up, everybody. Here we go.

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Andrew (1:17)

All right, everybody. Welcome, welcome. September 25th, 2026 We're here in Phoenix, Arizona, live at the Y-Refi Studios. Blake has his own mic flag now.

Blake (1:28)

Yes. So we're making...

Blake (1:29)

And a mic flag with a bigger Y-Refi logo on it, or less.

Andrew (1:32)

It's true. Lots to get to today. Obviously, everybody's talking about G and Trump, but we got an election in 39 days. I think we have a graphic right there, and that's what we have our sites on here. 39 days until the midterms. And I just want to say, vote, fight, win. Don't trust the polls. When have you ever seen a poll that over sampled Republicans? You've never seen one, because it doesn't happen. They're trying to convince me Tal Rico's up five in Texas. I don't believe it.

His internal polls have him slightly ahead, but it is a dog fight. It is a dog fight. We're going to take the basis temperature right now, but I've checked with the base with none other than Kane from Citizen Free Press who joins us now. Kane, my friend, it's been too long. How you doing?

Kane (2:21)

Everything is good here in Bloomington.

Bloomington is kind of hopping. There's a Friday night football game. We have Northwestern. Yeah, Northwestern, who's fresh off whooping Deion Sanders in Colorado. What was that? 41-7 last week.

Andrew (2:40)

Brutal, just brutal.

Kane (2:41)

Yeah, a little side note. Can you imagine being a Colorado Buffaloes fan? You get all that hype two, three years ago, four years ago when Deion comes to town, they paid him that massive contract. He was like, I'm gonna recruit the best players. Everybody's gonna come one. And even when he had his son, when he had Hunter, that amazing wide receiver, like they felt like they were a six-in-five team that could barely beat Colorado State.

Vivek Ramaswamy (3:08)

But Indiana's doing good.

Andrew (3:11)

Indiana's doing well.

Kane (3:12)

Yes. Yeah. So anyway, so that's a nice Friday night game.

Northwestern, they got a bunch of billionaires from that business school.

They're like the Tuck School at Dartmouth. They got a bunch of billionaires, and so they can buy a team now. Their quarterback is the Michigan State quarterback from the last few years who's immensely talented. They're sort of like the new Vanderbilt.

Andrew (3:38)

Well, it's interesting. Yeah, NIL has totally opened up football.

Blake (3:41)

I mean, it's the worst thing ever.

Andrew (3:43)

The playoff and the NIL, it's like nothing makes sense anymore. Then you got Indiana who's winning national championships. I don't know what that's about. I don't know how you guys pulled that off.

Kane (3:52)

19 straight, brother. 19 straight victories.

Andrew (3:55)

That was one of the most miraculous stories in college football history is the fact that Indiana won last year. Absolutely shouldn't have happened, but it happened.

Kane (4:05)

Totally.

Andrew (4:06)

Kane, you run Citizen Free Press. You are always on top of the news. citizenfreepress.com. You got to check it out. He's updating the stack all the time. Right now at the top of the stack is the fact that you're coming on with us. So that's excellent. So click on that link.

Let's brass tax it. There is a lot of negativity out there, right? You've got Mark Halpern going viral. I don't know if you saw it.

Blake (4:32)

Mark, who always comes on the show.

Andrew (4:33)

Well, he said out loud what he said on the show, which was that if you're in a Trump plus 15 district, you got to poll. Do run a poll because you might be in trouble. I mean, that's kind of where he's saying now. It looks like some of this is hitting red states more than it's hitting blue states, right? So we might have like a weird map where we win, you know, we win Minnesota, we win Maine and we lose Kansas and Nebraska. You never know what could happen here.

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