Blake Neff

Charlie was a fan of Thomas Massey, especially historically liked him on war, liked him on being a budget hawk and spending.

But he was pretty frustrated that Massey didn't vote on in the affirmative on the big, beautiful bill, because it was essentially the totality of President Trump's first year agenda wrapped into one bill.

And I will just say privately, Charlie was really, really frustrated.

And I still like Massey.

Yeah, but I will tell you that I had some very candid conversations after the big beautiful bill where he voiced his frustration to me privately.

Yeah, and I just want to be very clear that I don't see myself as that.

I've, you know, I worked with Charlie just about every day for eight years, and I feel like I have a Charlie GPT or something in the back of my head.

I mean, truly, I hear... As long as you don't do the weird AI thing.

We've been pitched on that multiple times.

I'm just like, guys, no, no, not at all.

The reason Erica is front and center at Turning Point is because when Charlie was alive, people repeatedly asked, Charlie, we're worried something will happen to you.

People always speculated that something could happen to Charlie.

And when he was asked, first of all, he was totally fearless.

He would just say, oh, it'll be fine.

Erica will take over for me.

That is what he said over and over.

I saw them interact.

All the time, almost on a daily basis, even when he was traveling, he was calling her all the time, he was talking to her all the time.

Charlie and Erica were partners.

They were husband and wife in a deep way.