Cliff Maloney
Appearances
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Biggest Amfest Ever Begins
You know, we're happy in Pennsylvania. We should be happy across America. We got Donald Trump going back to the White House. We got your Ducks undefeated. Undefeated. My birds. My birds. Ten wins in a row. Franchise record. Is that right? And America, if you didn't know, Charlie, we're back-to-back World War champions. Things are very good. This is the golden age, folks.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Biggest Amfest Ever Begins
Yeah, well, let's start with how we got involved. So I always have to give you this credit, Charlie, because very few people understood. The idea of these Trump supporters becoming Trump voters, which turning point action is just championed and led on for a year, if not longer.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Biggest Amfest Ever Begins
And so this idea that we have to hit low propensity, you came to me, Tyler came to me and said, hey, listen, Pennsylvania is a mammoth. We're owning Arizona. We're owning Wisconsin. Can you guys take your door knocking apparatus and just we'll help with infrastructure, we'll help with data and just double down and do what we're doing in these states.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Biggest Amfest Ever Begins
So in Pennsylvania, the problem was in 2020, right, we weren't adapting to the rules. We weren't out there chasing ballots and talking these low propensity folks to request and to get people in. So if you guys look here at the map, I mean, now that's a beautiful map. I've got to be honest with you. That is a beautiful map. So how much did we lose Center County by? It was less than $1,000.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Biggest Amfest Ever Begins
Let me explain Center County and give Charlie a shout-out here.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Biggest Amfest Ever Begins
So Center County, Penn State University, Charlie goes out there, does a barn burner event. He's tossing MAGA hats, registers all these voters at Pennsylvania State University. I got to give the specifics. So there's a state house race. Therese Holland, great patriot. Nobody said she could win. OK, that seat was lost by 14 or 15 points in the previous election cycle. You guys do the events.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Biggest Amfest Ever Begins
You register the voters. We chase the votes. Loses by a half a percentage. We flipped it 14 points.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Biggest Amfest Ever Begins
I told your wife Erica this. I said, I hope you don't mind. I'm going to need Charlie every single week in Pennsylvania in a swing county doing these events because it does have such an impact with the registration. So anyway, back to the map.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Biggest Amfest Ever Begins
Listen, you did and we worked hard. I was not always a believer, but we did pull off Erie, which was huge and major, major ramifications there with the state Senate seat that we were able to hold in Erie County. But then if you look southeastern PA, you got Philadelphia and the collar counties.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Biggest Amfest Ever Begins
The Democrats lost not only because we turned out Trump supporters and made them Trump voters, but man, was there no joy for Kamala Harris. And black men, Charlie, I'm telling you, we have done door knocking for a while. I have never seen black men so, one, excited for Donald Trump, and two, absolutely loathe Kamala Harris's policies.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Biggest Amfest Ever Begins
So we knocked on 510,000 doors. That's unbelievable. And our objective from the start was to knock 500,000. But Charlie, you've always said this, and I respect it so much. Action is just action, right?
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Biggest Amfest Ever Begins
And so we said, all right, well, how are we going to measure our success with what we're doing? Because if we just go out there and knock 500,000 doors, yes, it's a great accomplishment. But how are you measuring what you're doing? Right. You have to win. And so we looked at the roll mail in vote and said, do we want to just say, hey, what is the Republican result from 2020 compared to 24?
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Biggest Amfest Ever Begins
We said, you know, it's a little tough because you had covid. You had all that hype and fear. Both Democrats and Republicans were expected to go down. And so when we launched PHAs, we said, hey, let's do a percentage of the total amount Democrat mail-in for Harris versus Trump's mail-in. And so we said 33%. We modeled it out.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Biggest Amfest Ever Begins
Trump could win with 30%, but 33%, and we think it's a resounding victory that pulls Dave McCormick across the finish line. Final results, Trump versus Harris, Donald Trump received 34.5% of the mail-in vote.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Biggest Amfest Ever Begins
I mean, he's... And you got a rock star, Noah Formica. You better hold on to that kid for a while.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Biggest Amfest Ever Begins
That guy is seriously. I mean, we obviously chased it all. But him, Scott Pressler, the whole turning point team registering voters was just a huge one to punch in the state. But Charlie, once again, we knocked five hundred and ten thousand doors to only win by one hundred and twenty thousand. Yes, it was a resounding win.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Biggest Amfest Ever Begins
But yeah, I would say, you know, if you look at the math, we talked to about two hundred two hundred and twenty five thousand people directly at the door. And when you win the state by 120,000, you got to get excited. It's massive.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Biggest Amfest Ever Begins
Yes. I don't want to announce anything too soon. We've got some things coming in January. We are going to relaunch and we're going to really have some concrete goals for 25.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Biggest Amfest Ever Begins
We'll just make Pennsylvania the red wall. We'll take their verbiage and use it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Biggest Amfest Ever Begins
But I do think, I mean, the thing about Pennsylvania, it's not a state where you're trying to create new voters. We have Trump supporters, right? We just have to continue to make those America first supporters voters and consistent voters, not just one out of fours, not only showing up when Trump's on the ballot. I think we do that work. You've got my word.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Biggest Amfest Ever Begins
We're going to triple down in PA and we're going to make a red wall.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Biggest Amfest Ever Begins
Yes. But you guys put out a really good like the top 10 swing districts expected for 26. Three of them are in Pennsylvania nationally. It's the three that we won this cycle. So seven and eight, we flipped with Bresnahan and McKenzie took Democrats out. Scott Perry, obviously our number one patriot in Pennsylvania, 10th district. So those are going to be the three strongholds.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Biggest Amfest Ever Begins
Charlie, the Democrats have already announced Shapiro is going to have people in those districts January 1 of 2025.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Biggest Amfest Ever Begins
Correct. It's amazing. Correct. And it's funny because when you target and you focus in a lot of these districts, I mean, these races were all won by about a percentage. A percentage. Scott Perry won by 1%, less than a percent.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Biggest Amfest Ever Begins
And so it's really cool when you're an activist on the ground, you know this from all of the thousands of activists, hundreds of thousands of activists you guys have, to see that look in their eye on election night, Charlie, it is an amazing experience when they know they made the difference for such a huge win.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Biggest Amfest Ever Begins
Number one, permanent infrastructure, right? If you're an activist out there, the battle has been won, but the war has just begun, right? We have to triple down, get involved with Turning Point, get involved with a local chapter, come work with us to doorknock. The idea that we can now go home, I mean, what an amazing thing just happened on X to be able to shut down a continuing resolution.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Biggest Amfest Ever Begins
It is the first time in probably 100 years the establishment's playbook has a defense. And that defense is instead of just delay, delay, delay. Oh, Christmas time. We have to vote. Now it's wait a second. We're going to analyze this bill in 30 seconds using AI and call out the rhino swamp creatures. I don't think I've ever seen anything like that. So we are in a new era here.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Biggest Amfest Ever Begins
The battle is won, but the war has just begun. That's my message to the grassroots. Keep up the fight.