In response to Tillis's stated concern about the nomination of Ed Martin as US attorney in DC, Kirk describes people that stormed the capitol building on Jan 6 as “people that stayed within the rope lines after the doors are opened for them”
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Sen. Thom Thillis (R-NC) said that he opposed Ed Martin's nomination for US attorney.
GOP Sen. Thom Tillis said he won't back Ed Martin, Trump's pick for top D.C. prosecutor, because of his work defending Jan. 6 rioters.
“I have no tolerance for anybody that entered the building on Jan. 6," Tillis said. https://t.co/HOqOSQNmMq pic.twitter.com/40e3KbjD07— POLITICO (@politico) May 6, 2025
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From the May 7, 2025, edition of The Charlie Kirk Show, streamed on Rumble
CHARLIE KIRK (HOST): And these US Senators fail to recognize that the rank and file of the people of North Carolina, the first time voters that we helped bring out at Turning Point Action of all of our campus events, Thom Tillis, they are not gonna show up for you. They just won't. And it's not that they'll even vote for the Democrat. It's that they'll vanish. They'll look at their mail-in ballot and say, waste of time.
We saw this in the Hegseth fight, in the Tulsi fight, in the Bobby Kennedy fight. Did they learn nothing? And the answer is yes. They learned nothing. And it shouldn't even be that shock to a system, but it is egregious. There is no excuse. I'm sorry. There is no excuse where you go and vote for Biden's DC US attorney and Biden's United States attorney general, and you will not vote for Trump's US attorney. And the excuse you give is that we didn't give harsh enough prison sentences for people that stayed within the rope lines after the doors are opened for them.
There -- just -- it's an egregious violation of the social compact, an egregious one. At that point, you can just say to yourself, well, I can't evaluate nominees well. Very simple.
And I don't say this with any delight. I don't seek this controversy. I wanna hold on to the North Carolina senate seat. I've been pulling for Thom Tillis to find his inner MAGA. But when someone violates this, you gotta call him out.
I'm not trying to divide the Republican Party. I'm trying to actually strengthen it, and that is the final point, is the Republican Party actually falls apart. It collapses. And it's a tough moment to say because the midterms that will then be coming and in the future elections, the voters in this audience, they're either gonna launch primary campaigns or they're not gonna vote for you because you took them for granted.
The number one rule of politics, and Trump did this better than any other leader, I think, in the last hundred years — I mean, I can't think of any political leader that did this better — is he had a base first political strategy. It is against the Karl Roves of the world. He had a base first political strategy, and it worked because your base can get bigger. You can get new low prop voters.
Man, Thom Tillis, I'm begging for you to give Trump voters an excuse to vote for you, but you are actively hostile against us. You've declared war on us.
And because of that, the chance of you getting elected in a general election is going down tremendously. It's too bad because you are handing a Senate seat to the Democrats. You are doing this, Thom Tillis. You're doing this to yourself. And with that, you're damaging the country and the Republican conference. You might think you're being all sanctimonious and uppity and a good person, but you are now jeopardizing this hard won senate seat in North Carolina for being principled. Bunch of garbage.