Charlie Kirk: “If the 2024 election is a referendum on abortion, we will lose”
“America is not as pro-life as I am”
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Citation From the September 22, 2023, edition of Salem Media Group's The Charlie Kirk Show
CHARLIE KIRK (HOST): That’s right there bigger than some sort of heated moment where DeSantis gets brought up with Kristen Welker. Forget that. That's – that's like a bar fight. This is, right there, straight communication of Imago Dei. And then he also did it. He enacted it.
Here's something that we as pro-life activists, though, are not honest about. Well, I am, and I get criticized for this. If the 2024 election is a referendum on abortion, we will lose.
If it is just about abortion, we will lose. America is not as pro-life as I am. I know this. I know this from talking to moderate suburban Republicans. They say, Charlie, I'm with you on every issue, except the abortion issue.
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Here's some data though. When abortion has recently been on the ballot in Ohio, in Kentucky, and many other states, Kansas, the pro-abortion side wins.
And that doesn't mean it's not an important issue. For me, it's one of my top issues, and it remains that way. But excuse me when I don't get into the outrage cycle by certain commentators when a friend of mine, President Donald Trump, who did more for the unborn, is trying to strike a deal. He already proved he's been pro-life, extremely pro-life.