A New York Times podcaster and data guy, Ezra Klein explains that young people are not the future of the Democratic Party, they are the future of the Republican Party. Democrats wake up and smell the data. Democrats did not count on the grittiness and hustle of Turning Point USA and the millions of students that actually wanted a future.
00:00:00.000Hey everyone, some really exciting personal news, two elements of personal news that we share here on the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:00:06.000And we go through in great detail Ezra Klein, who is a New York Times podcaster and data guy, explains that young people are not the future of the Democrat Party, they're the future of the Republican Party.
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00:02:34.000It was overconfident, in part because they thought that left-wing victory was completely inevitable.
00:02:42.000If you listen to Pod Save America, it is four of those guys that just talk about how right they are the entire time.
00:02:48.000After the 2008 election and the subsequent 2012 election of Barack Obama, People like Ezra Klein looked at the numbers and said, old people are conservative, young people are liberal, so the future will be liberal.
00:03:02.000That is a very fair and honest analysis.
00:03:06.000There's one thing they did not count on.
00:03:09.000They did not count on the grittiness and the hustle of Turning Point USA.
00:03:14.000They did not count on the millions of students that actually wanted to have a future and the ascendant political force of President Donald Trump.
00:03:22.000Now, Ezra Klein, who is the premier explainer of things on the left, is stuck trying to explain why that didn't happen.
00:03:32.000So he had a Democrat statistician by the name of David Shore on his program.
00:03:38.000The reason we are leading with this today, everybody, is that there is a generational restructuring happening.
00:03:44.000It's so obvious to us on this program.
00:03:47.000We've been warning about this for the last couple years.
00:03:49.000Not just warning about it, celebrating it.
00:03:51.000I've been coming in the chair here on this program, Real America's Voice, and on the Salem Radio Network, telling you guys, there's something happening on these campuses.
00:03:59.000There's something happening with the next generation.
00:04:01.000The crowds were drawing the views that we are garnering.
00:05:22.000The New York Times is reporting on months-old data.
00:05:27.000Now, the significance of this, everybody, is that you are dealing with a completely different political climate than any time.
00:05:35.000That you have been alive since Ronald Reagan.
00:05:37.000In fact, if you take an average 20-something voter, that is a young man, and an average 75-year-old man, and we've said this on this program and it drives some baby boomers a little bit nuts, and of course this audience exempt from that, the paradigm shift is so remarkable that the 20-year-old is more conservative than the 75-year-old.
00:06:06.000Here is Ezra Klein and David Shore who are pulling their hair out, going through all of the numbers, trying to process.
00:06:17.000How on earth is it that the young men, the next generation, are more conservative than their grandparents?
00:06:26.000Now, let me just take a pause before I play this piece of tape.
00:06:29.000If me mentioning that bothers you, It should actually give you great hope.
00:06:36.000If you're 75 and you find out that your colleagues that are boomers are more liberal than your grandkids, it actually means that you're going to be handing off a country that is more conservative.
00:07:11.000You are part of a movement that is shaping it, creating it, and pushing it forward.
00:07:15.000And it was delicious this weekend listening to Smugman, Ezra Klein, have to explain to the millions of New York Times elite academics what we have helped make happen.
00:07:30.000Play cut 75. One of the things you can see here is if you just look at 18-year-olds, 18-year-old women of color are the only of the four that actually, you know, voted that Harris won.
00:07:41.000Trump narrowly won, you know, non-white men.
00:07:44.000So I do find this part of this chart shocking.
00:07:49.000I sometimes talk about narrative violations, and I think if we knew anything about Donald Trump eight years ago, it's that young people did not like him.
00:07:56.000But if you look at this chart among white men...
00:07:59.000Who are 75 years old supported Kamala Harris at a significantly higher rate than white men who are 20 years old.
00:08:13.000This is the thing I am the most shocked by, I think, in the last four years is that young people have gone from being the most progressive generation since the baby boomers and maybe in some ways more so to becoming The most conservative.
00:08:31.000I have no idea who would have made that a stated goal.
00:09:09.000The influencer army that we have helped assemble.
00:09:12.000The 75-year-old boomer man is more likely to watch cable news.
00:09:19.000They're more likely to watch NBC and ABC.
00:09:24.000Young people aren't watching the news.
00:09:25.000They're getting it in 10-second sound bites, of which we are dominant.
00:09:32.000For those skeptical of polls and sampling size, David Shore's study, which you just saw in that video, is based on 26 million online responses collected over the course of 2024 and filtered to adjust to oddities of modern polling.
00:10:15.000The subterranean truth that we are living through right now.
00:10:21.000Is that there is a political earthquake that you have been praying for and it is sticking and it is only continuing.
00:10:27.000It is not just a Donald Trump phenomenon.
00:10:30.000It is a right-wing revolution that is happening from the youth to the old, from the bottom up, from the students to the elders, from the Gen Xers, the Gen Zers, to the boomers.
00:10:44.000And it's happening across all racial demographics.
00:11:45.000Young Hispanics, young blacks, young whites that are men are all shifting to the right.
00:11:51.000Young women are too, but not to the same extent.
00:11:54.000One of the reasons why young men are shifting to the right is the hyper-feminization of American politics, is how feminine the Democrat Party has become.
00:12:08.000When you are trying to raise young men, you learn...
00:12:15.000That young men do not like taking orders, especially when it comes to discipline, from women.
00:15:16.000I do think there was, even as the idea of the rising Democratic majority had become a little discredited in 2016 and 2020, I do think Democrats believed that these young voters were eventually going to save them.
00:15:29.000That this was a last gasp of something.
00:15:32.000That if Donald Trump couldn't run these numbers up among seniors and you had millennials really coming into their voting power, Gen Z coming in, that was going to be the end of this Republican Party.
00:15:45.000It might be the beginning of this Republican Party.
00:15:47.000I have to admit, I was one of those liberals four years ago, and it seems like I was wrong.
00:15:52.000It's the beginning of our Republican Party.
00:15:55.000Here is the gender gap and how significant it is.
00:15:58.000Play cut 77. On the bottom, we have age.
00:16:01.000And at the top, we have the gender gap in support between women and men.
00:16:05.000And, you know, for support for Kamala Harris.
00:16:08.000And so what you can see is that, you know, for voters over 30, the gender gap was fairly stable at around 10%, which is roughly where it's been in American politics.
00:16:24.000But what's crazy is if you look at people who are under the age of 30, the gender gap has exploded.
00:16:30.000If you look at 18-year-olds, 18-year-old men were 23 percentage points more likely to support Donald Trump than 18-year-old women, which is just completely unprecedented in American politics.
00:17:02.000The men of the West do not want to be told what to do from women that they do not respect, that don't have their own personal lives together, screaming at them for merely existing.
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00:19:14.000I am sick and tired of how big government has gotten, and you can't get a permit to build a business, to build a house, to do anything because of local, state, and federal government.
00:19:26.000And so for a young 17 and 18 year old man, you know what it's like to be that age.
00:19:30.000The last thing they want is someone who is not their mom, but is coming in and telling them, hey, it's terrible that you exist and it's terrible that you have white skin color.
00:20:33.000You know, in special elections, often the vote is, you know, there's low voter turnout.
00:20:37.000And this is when we have, you know, these are both should be, all right, in a normal year, this would be easy Republican wins.
00:20:44.000But what we're seeing now is our Democrats about racists because they know this is the chance to reduce the majority of Republicans in the House.
00:24:11.000Senator, give us the latest update from Capitol Hill as far as the schedule for second-tier nominations and also the one big, beautiful bill.
00:24:20.000So, last week was our vote, our recess.
00:24:23.000We're back in our districts, our states.
00:24:26.000And now we're back up here for three weeks.
00:24:28.000So in three weeks, we're going to work our tail off to try to get this reconciliation done.
00:24:33.000So we're going to work with our House colleagues on doing these things.
00:24:35.000Number one, we've got to make sure Trump has the money to get rid of the illegals.
00:24:40.000The criminals, the terrorists, the narcotraff, and people selling our drugstore kits.
00:25:16.000So Elon's done a great job giving information to our secretaries of ways they can reduce staffing, reduce wasteful spending.
00:25:23.000Now what we've got to do is we've got to, one, do a rescission package.
00:25:27.000What the White House can do, they can send us a rescission package.
00:25:30.000It only takes 218 members of the House, 51 members in the Senate, and we can get rid of that spending.
00:25:35.000I know the White House is looking at that.
00:25:37.000I spoke with OMB last week about it, so I know they're looking at that.
00:25:42.000And then as we do our budget for 2026, which will be part of this reconciliation, we can dramatically reduce that spending and take those doge cuts and put them in our reconciliation bill.
00:25:56.000The fiscal calamity that we are experiencing is immense.
00:26:01.000And the lack of Washington, D.C.'s appetite.
00:26:04.000To cut spending and get down to baseline budgeting is horrifying.
00:26:09.000My hope is that we'll be able to- We have to, Charlie.
00:26:57.000Constantly, when I was governor, I went through all 4,000 lines of the budget.
00:27:00.000Ron Johnson just had an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal saying, let's get the House, the Senate, the White House together, and let's go line by line through the budget.
00:27:11.000We reduced this, we reduced spending, and we reduced wasteful spending because we had a purpose for every line.
00:27:16.000That's what you should expect out of your tax dollars.
00:27:19.000There should be a purpose, not $600,000 to study the menstrual cycle of transgender men or $800,000 to do gardening and new chicken gardening in El Salvador.
00:27:34.000If we're going to get inflation under control...
00:27:37.000Get interest rates down so you can afford that house or afford that car.
00:27:40.000It's going to be because we balance the budget.
00:27:41.000And if it doesn't happen, it's simply because of certain Senate and House colleagues of yours that do not have the will to cut spending and do not want to face the music.
00:27:52.000Senator, we will not have a country anymore if we do not dramatically cut spending.
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00:29:34.000They've been amazing supporters of our campus tour.
00:30:19.000Before we dive deeper into the data, play Cut 101.
00:30:22.000For the first time in our nation's history, a 30-year-old man or woman isn't doing as well as his or her parents were at 30. That is the social compact breaking down.
00:30:31.000People aged 30 to 34, 60% of them in 1990 had one child.
00:31:23.000However, I do know something about kicking woke out of institutions.
00:31:28.000The Air Force Academy is a very far left-wing institution, as it has been running the last couple of years.
00:31:34.000I'm honored that the President has given me this opportunity alongside some other great change agents like Senator Tubbaville and many others to make the Air Force Academy great again.
00:31:44.000If we are serious about fighting the Communist Chinese and our enemies abroad, we need the Air Force Academy to not be one that is focused on diversity, equity, inclusion, but instead on excellence and meritocracy.
00:31:58.000The second piece of personal news that I'm very honored and quite honestly humbled is that starting next week, a week from today, we will be taking over Dennis Prager's radio slot.
00:32:12.000Dennis is still recovering from a very difficult spinal cord injury that he sustained in the past.
00:32:19.000I've visited Dennis a couple times in the hospital, and so starting next week, we are very humbled to be...
00:33:44.000But did you realize that one of the reasons why we're singing a right-wing revolution is because of TikTok?
00:33:49.000One of the reasons why we saw so many people go in our direction is that we used something that we did not otherwise like and we used it for good and virtuous and righteous purposes.
00:34:35.000When you zoom in, particularly, to people who get their news from TikTok, who don't care very much about politics, this is a group that's eight percentage points more Republican than they were four years ago, and that's a lot.
00:35:47.000but nothing came close to the potency of TikTok.
00:35:49.000Nothing came even close because we were reaching non-political young people, which is what I realized about a couple months into doing this.
00:35:58.000We went to our People's Convention in Detroit, and all of a sudden, all the janitors are coming up giving me fist bumps, and these are blacks and Hispanics.