The Arizona election results were terrible for Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA. After all, he invested heavily in the state, yet not one of Turning Point PAC's statewide Arizona picks managed to get elected to office. Bummer.
Kirk said there was a poor turnout of Republicans in Arizona because the state's voters think elections are rigged.
"400,000 people that voted for Trump in 2020 did not show up or vote for the midterm election, he said. "I believe it's because a lot of people do not trust the system."
Who could have possibly put that thought in voters' heads?
Trump votes by mail, but the rest of us aren't supposed to.
And then there's Charles.
On the morning of Election Day, Charlie Kirk, the conservative talk show host from Arizona, shared a video on Twitter about broken voting machines in Maricopa County, followed by a series of posts suggesting that the problems were intentional.
"This is manufactured chaos," he wrote, calling for those responsible to be arrested.
The video was shared nearly 20,000 times and liked by more than 30,000 users, including many prominent accounts with hundreds of thousands of followers. The post and others like it on a dozen online platforms kindled a false narrative of widespread voting shenanigans among those predisposed to believe that the country's elections are rigged.
Charles can blame himself for investing nearly $500,000 in shitty candidates after propagating Trump's big lie of widespread voter fraud that doesn't exist.
Donald Trump did the same thing in Georgia. He sowed doubt in the elections, so conservatives didn't show up on Election Day. And, of course, Lumpy blamed Sen. Mitch McConnell.
UPDATE: Kirk doing an apples-and-oranges comparison between presidential elections and midterms, where turnout is always higher in presidential years. Comparing 2018 to 2022, Arizona actually had the second largest increase of any state.
