The Charlie Kirk Show - The Youth Vote that Delivered the Win — My Appearance on The Megyn Kelly Show

In this episode of the CharlieKirkShow, host Megyn Kelly sits down with her good friend Charlie Kirk to talk about the 2020 Democratic Primary election and the incredible work that he and his organization, Turning Point USA, did to elect Donald Trump President in 2016. Megyn and Charlie talk about how important it was to build a coalition and how they were able to defeat a powerful opponent like Kamala Harris. They also discuss how the Democratic Party failed to understand what they were up against and why they should have been prepared to vote for Donald Trump. They also talk about why it was so important to have a woman on the ticket in order to defeat Hillary Clinton and why Tulsi Gabbard is the best choice to take on the other woman running for President in 2020 and why she should win in 2020. This is a must-listen for every conservative millennial listening to the Charlie Kirk Show. Get involved with TPCUSA today at turningpointusa.org/thecharliekirkshow and become a member today at tpusa.ee/memberscharliedcreekrkirk/tpsu. Today's episode is sponsored by Noble Gold Investments, the official gold sponsor of the show. Noble Gold is a company that specializes in gold and physical delivery of precious metals! Learn how you can protect your wealth with Noble Gold Investments at noblegold.investments.com/theCharlieKirk Show. It's where I buy all of my gold! Go to noblegoldinvestments to get 20% off your first order of gold and get 5% off of your first month! to receive 20% OFF your first year of your gold account when you purchase a piece of gold or silver! I'll be giving you a 5-day VIP membership when I redeeming my first month's worth $200 or $5,000 or $10,000 when I receive $5 or more in total, I'll get 10% off the first month, I'm giving you 5,000, and you get a VIP discount when you become a VIP offer when you shop at Noble GoldInvesting in a 4 year, I get 5, you get 25% off my total total of $25, I can receive $50 or more, I won't know what else gets me a year, and I get a discount when I get my first year and receive 5, I ll get an ad discount offer, and get an offer like that?

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00:02:24.000 Charlie, congratulations!

00:02:26.000 Thank you.

00:02:27.000 Well, as Kamala Harris would say, we did it, Joe, but we did it, Megan.

00:02:32.000 And your speech was awesome, by the way.

00:02:36.000 Thank you for your support and how amazing that was.

00:02:39.000 I really believe that moved votes and not to mention just your podcast here.

00:02:44.000 I think it held the line with sane women in this country and gave them an understanding of the stakes and gave them an understanding of really what we are up against.

00:02:54.000 And so you deserve a lot of credit too, Megan, because this was really a coalition.

00:02:58.000 There's so much to unpack from this election.

00:03:02.000 Part of it is also how alternative media was able to crush the major propagandist networks.

00:03:09.000 And you look at four years ago during COVID, all of our alternative media was largely censored.

00:03:14.000 But we won this time.

00:03:15.000 Podcasts and shows like this one, Joe Rogan, my show, the All In podcast.

00:03:21.000 The left couldn't keep up with it.

00:03:23.000 And President Trump, to his great credit, built a once-in-a-lifetime unity ticket, which I think the media completely underestimated, from Bobby Kennedy to Tulsi Gabbard.

00:03:35.000 And then finally, of course, it cannot be repeated enough.

00:03:39.000 God bless Elon Musk.

00:03:40.000 I mean, that guy put it all on the line.

00:03:42.000 I mean, it wasn't just like he wrote a check and hoped it would get better.

00:03:46.000 He lived in Pennsylvania the last 45 days of the election.

00:03:51.000 He personally would host town halls across the state of Pennsylvania.

00:03:56.000 He was giving away a million dollars a day to random citizens to help encourage citizen participation.

00:04:02.000 And so there's a lot of people that deserve credit.

00:04:05.000 We all kind of played a small role.

00:04:07.000 And that's why it feels so different than 2016.

00:04:10.000 2016 was just lightning in a bottle.

00:04:12.000 Took him by surprise.

00:04:14.000 It was a movement.

00:04:14.000 This was really fascinating.

00:04:16.000 30 or 40 different people that went all in, that we just called the bluff of the Democrats, and we beat the most powerful thing ever to exist in the history of the world.

00:04:28.000 It's pretty awesome.

00:04:29.000 Praise God.

00:04:29.000 Oh, it's amazing.

00:04:30.000 And you are so generous and kind to be giving me any credit when you truly deserve actual credit for getting Donald Trump elected.

00:04:38.000 I mean, truly, you're one of a handful of five that really made the difference.

00:04:42.000 And we need look no further than the youth vote.

00:04:45.000 That wasn't the...

00:04:46.000 Exclusive reign of your influence.

00:04:48.000 But man, when have young people come out for the Republican?

00:04:55.000 I mean, like never.

00:04:56.000 And especially in today's day and age where he's been totally demonized all over TikTok and the sources of information that they use.

00:05:05.000 But you reached...

00:05:07.000 Billions.

00:05:08.000 I mean, obviously there's not that many people voting in this election.

00:05:11.000 I mean, the number of views of your videos going out onto these college campuses, you know, challenging them, saying, go ahead.

00:05:19.000 Like, why are you voting for her?

00:05:21.000 Let's walk through it.

00:05:22.000 That would go viral every time.

00:05:23.000 We have to look at some of them because, like I said, it's just so fun right now.

00:05:28.000 Here's one woman who was very much determined to believe that Donald Trump is a racist.

00:05:33.000 And here's Charlie dismantling her.

00:05:35.000 Sought to.

00:05:36.000 You've got to give me a good reason, at least two, why you don't like Trump. 0.99

00:05:41.000 He's racist.

00:05:45.000 Can you define what does it mean to be racist?

00:05:51.000 Do you want me to look up a definition?

00:05:53.000 You said he's a racist, so you must have a definition of racism in your mind.

00:05:59.000 Tell me what that definition is.

00:06:01.000 Okay, so...

00:06:03.000 I'm going to make you guys wait on this.

00:06:08.000 Zero knowledge?

00:06:09.000 Guys, please don't heckle.

00:06:10.000 It's hatred towards another race, right? 0.99

00:06:13.000 So when has he ever exhibited that?

00:06:15.000 Give me clear and specific examples.

00:06:21.000 Um, well, yeah, I heard someone say he told, uh, told...

00:06:26.000 Yes!

00:06:32.000 Okay, but let me just help you out here.

00:06:36.000 What you think he's a racist because the media has told you he's a racist.

00:06:40.000 Because you can't give me an example off the top of your head and even when you phone a friend of the audience.

00:06:44.000 I'm not criticizing you.

00:06:46.000 Maybe the media is lying to you.

00:06:50.000 Wow.

00:06:51.000 Truer words were never spoken.

00:06:53.000 How many exchanges do you think you had like that on college campuses, Charlie?

00:06:56.000 Oh, I mean, we had hundreds this semester.

00:06:59.000 That particular video, by the way, received over 60 million views on TikTok alone.

00:07:04.000 And so we tallied it up.

00:07:06.000 It was, again, billions of views.

00:07:08.000 That means that target young voters were watching our content six, seven, eight, nine, ten times.

00:07:14.000 And so, Megan, we do these tours.

00:07:15.000 I visited 25 college campuses this semester, which is the most I've ever done.

00:07:20.000 And over the summer, we said, how do we make a difference?

00:07:23.000 And we were doing these videos in the spring.

00:07:25.000 And I came up with the idea.

00:07:26.000 I said, man, I think the election is going to be as hot as a pistol.

00:07:29.000 I think there's going to be a lot of interest.

00:07:31.000 Why don't we do the most tours ever?

00:07:33.000 But instead of the traditional evening events, why don't we do these kind of dialogues and these exchanges to try to see if we can show the world the contrast of ideas and to see which ideas are better and to kind of create this digital movement of people that want to make up their why don't we do these kind of dialogues and these exchanges And, Megan, it was way more successful than I could have ever imagined.

00:07:55.000 And part of it was how unscripted it was.

00:07:58.000 There was no – anyone could come up at any time, a professor, a professional debater.

00:08:04.000 You could bring notes.

00:08:05.000 You could bring 10 friends with you.

00:08:07.000 There's no rules, right?

00:08:08.000 And so that's very interesting to an audience, both digital and in person.

00:08:12.000 And it was so real when so much of this campaign on the Democrat side was fake and synthetic.

00:08:20.000 And so here we were with the most real thing you can do, which is set up a table and talk to people that are 180 degrees opposed to you.

00:08:29.000 And so we started doing these events in early...

00:08:31.000 The first one we did was University of Wisconsin-Madison, and we drew 2,000 people.

00:08:37.000 And I've been doing this for 12 years, okay?

00:08:39.000 I've done more on college campuses than I think anybody in this space.

00:08:42.000 Not, you know, belittling anybody, but it's been the fields of which I've been working for 12 years.

00:08:47.000 We'd be lucky to get like 100 people and a lot of protesters, right?

00:08:51.000 We drew 2,000 people in Madison as our first one in September.

00:08:54.000 And I turned to my team and I said, is this an anomaly?

00:08:56.000 Is there something happening at Madison that I don't know?

00:08:59.000 And all of a sudden we did three or four more and it was becoming the rule.

00:09:04.000 And I said to my team, I said, guys, something is happening on these campuses.

00:09:08.000 And the media was ignoring it.

00:09:09.000 In fact, we were mocked on social media by all the intelligency of the political establishment right and the left saying, oh, you know, the polls show that younger voters are going to go for Kamala than ever before.

00:09:22.000 And I said, well, maybe.

00:09:23.000 But what I'm seeing is unlike anything I've ever seen before, and not only that, Megan, our ground game and our ground team was registering these kids to vote.

00:09:31.000 We were getting thousands and thousands of these first-time voters.

00:09:34.000 So it wasn't just like, okay, let's put on a show and we leave.

00:09:38.000 We were translating the support into votes, which was the operating thesis.

00:09:44.000 It was our theory of the case, if you will, as we were going into this.

00:09:49.000 And then finally...

00:09:50.000 As a kicker, we had Mark McKinnon go to one of our campus stops, who's a fair guy, but he's definitely not a Trumper, and he was a Bush guy. 0.51

00:09:58.000 He did the circus, and I've always had respect for him.

00:10:02.000 And he started to see this stuff on social media, and to his credit, unlike anybody else, he's like, I need to see this.

00:10:08.000 He was almost like, I don't believe it.

00:10:10.000 So he went to the University of Georgia, and we drew 5,000 people, Megan.

00:10:14.000 5,000 people at the University of Georgia.

00:10:16.000 And he went, and he was like...

00:10:18.000 I said that Kamala was going to win, but now I'm second-guessing myself based on what he saw.

00:10:23.000 I was like, yeah, Mark, I mean, there's something happening here.

00:10:26.000 And now the exit polls.

00:10:27.000 We won the youth vote in Michigan.

00:10:29.000 We almost won it in Wisconsin.

00:10:31.000 In Pennsylvania, we don't know, but we almost flipped Senerx County, which is Penn State.

00:10:36.000 We got within one point of it, which usually it's a 20-point Democrat victory there.

00:10:41.000 And we went to Penn State and did a massive event.

00:10:43.000 We did five events in Penn State, by the way, this cycle, for obvious reasons.

00:10:48.000 And it's tempting to say that it was a landslide, which it was, but However, let me kind of humble the audience a little bit.

00:10:56.000 Donald Trump won by less than a point in Wisconsin, about 28,000 votes.

00:11:01.000 He won by a point-ish, 1.2 in Michigan.

00:11:06.000 And then he won by one point in Pennsylvania.

00:11:09.000 And so, Megan, it is conceivable that without this record movement of youth vote, he doesn't win.

00:11:16.000 And I'm not saying that because I'm in that space, but we're talking about a point and a half across three states that Now, the Sun Belt states were more generous and were more decisive.

00:11:28.000 But as you know, everyone was saying, if you can't win a Rust Belt state, Kamala is president.

00:11:33.000 So you could say that the kids are all right, and the kids put Donald Trump back in the White House.

00:11:38.000 It's incredible.

00:11:39.000 I mean, no one's really paid that much attention to them before.

00:11:42.000 It's one of those things where Republicans have always assumed they're not gettable.

00:11:46.000 And then along comes Charlie Kirk.

00:11:47.000 I mean, I don't mean to go totally biblical on you, but I really feel like this is destiny.

00:11:52.000 And I've been thinking about you this past week so much because I know we talked about this in 2016.

00:11:57.000 You were like Don Jr.'s assistant.

00:12:00.000 You were helping him with bags.

00:12:02.000 I would bet you.

00:12:03.000 I was getting sugar-free Red Bulls for Don Jr.

00:12:07.000 I had no Twitter followers.

00:12:09.000 We had Turning Point, but it was a small thing.

00:12:12.000 And yeah, eight years ago, I was a bag carrier.

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00:13:20.000 So this is what made me think of you, among other things, the obvious.

00:13:23.000 I know you saw this clip. 0.96

00:13:25.000 Her disgusting, gross elitism and her complete out-of-touch nature with respect to the rest of the world.

00:13:32.000 Sonny Hostin goes on The View and decides now would be a great time to dump all over the so-called uneducated, not non-college educated, the uneducated, which is what you are in Sonny Hostin's view, and Including you, Charlie Kirk, because she's conflating, right, people who didn't go to college with people who are uneducated.

00:13:55.000 We've got to look at the clip, and then I need your reaction.

00:13:58.000 What we did not have is white women who voted about 52% for Donald Trump. 0.97

00:14:04.000 Uneducated white women is my understanding. 1.00

00:14:06.000 You have Latino men actually voting more for him.

00:14:11.000 And black men were not the story here because they voted almost 80% for the vice president.

00:14:17.000 So why do you think that uneducated white women voted against their reproductive health freedoms and why do you think Latino men voted In favor of someone that says he's going to deport the majority of his community.

00:14:30.000 I don't think white women like being called uneducated white women. 1.00

00:14:32.000 I think the economy matters, national security matters.

00:14:35.000 But when you put people in these boxes, I think that's a takeaway from this right.

00:14:41.000 Okay.

00:14:41.000 It's amazing.

00:14:43.000 Specifically, they're referring to the women, but of course, it's the non-college educated men as well who voted for Donald Trump.

00:14:48.000 And the nerve of this woman to whom the country has given so much to try to dump on people who didn't go to college.

00:14:55.000 Look at you.

00:14:55.000 Look at your achievements.

00:14:56.000 How do you like the so-called uneducated now, Sonny?

00:15:01.000 Yeah, and by the way, rarely do you get the answer to a question in the question, and her whole question is exactly why there was a rebellion against them. 0.95

00:15:12.000 Listen, just because you didn't go to college doesn't mean you're stupid, and it doesn't mean that you don't have wisdom.

00:15:18.000 I always differentiate between knowledge and wisdom. 0.98

00:15:21.000 You can go to college and get a bunch of irrelevant facts about how men...

00:15:26.000 And allegedly give birth or whatever they teach.

00:15:29.000 Or about North African lesbian poetry.

00:15:32.000 Okay, that's fine, I guess.

00:15:34.000 But I said this to our team.

00:15:37.000 I said working people, the muscular class, including working women in the sense of waitresses and women that work for Amazon. 0.99

00:15:47.000 And there's a lot of women delivery drivers that They are so in favor of Trump, and they don't want to be called stupid or uneducated. 1.00

00:15:56.000 And I've said this for so long, and it's finally manifested, which is that it is laced into how we do our public opinion polling. 0.97

00:16:05.000 And she played into it perfectly, because I've said this for a decade, and finally, I have a piece of evidence to show this more than anything else, that we look at how we elect our leaders in two buckets. 1.00

00:16:16.000 Stupid and And smart. 1.00

00:16:18.000 And the stupid people are the people that don't have a certificate from Yale. 1.00

00:16:22.000 And the smart people are $200,000 in debt because they went to Drake. 1.00

00:16:28.000 And so the breakdown, though, is that Donald Trump, which, by the way, is just smart politics, because there's more people that didn't go to college than did go to college.

00:16:39.000 And I know that's really hard for the Democrats to realize because everyone in their circle went to college.

00:16:44.000 But the majority of the country actually does not have a four-year college diploma.

00:16:48.000 The majority of the country are people that have two-year technical degrees or community college, or they just went into the workforce right out of high school. 0.82

00:16:55.000 And so Donald Trump gave these people a voice because they're tired of being told that they're stupid just because they didn't go into debt to go study something that doesn't matter to find jobs that don't exist. 0.77

00:17:08.000 And these people, by the way, Megan, both men and women, we call them, as I said, the muscular class. 0.97

00:17:14.000 They are the ones that kept the economy alive to great personal risk for themselves and their family during COVID. They're the ones that delivered you your Uber Eats for three months on straight while you in the laptop class were able to keep on doing your job by opening your laptop in the comfort of your home while the Amazon trucks were still delivered and the supply chain went uninterrupted.

00:17:38.000 Those people have felt belittled.

00:17:41.000 They have felt talked down to.

00:17:43.000 And Donald Trump communicated with them better than any candidate since Ronald Reagan in 1988.

00:17:48.000 And the final point I'll say is this, is Sonny...

00:17:52.000 Do you guys thought that abortion was going to be this, like, quasi-zealot religious issue?

00:18:00.000 I'm pro-life.

00:18:01.000 If people in the audience aren't, that's fine.

00:18:03.000 What I'm saying, though, what gives me promise, and I think we can all agree on this, is that there are other issues that should animate and drive our politics other than this very divisive one.

00:18:15.000 And I was really encouraged by that, Megan.

00:18:17.000 Very encouraged.

00:18:19.000 Because the media was forcing this as an up or down vote on a referendum on a highly complicated, very emotional, very personal issue.

00:18:29.000 And it turned out the American people were like, yeah, actually, these other six things matter more.

00:18:34.000 And good for them.

00:18:36.000 By the way, Sonny Hostin, I think, went to Notre Dame.

00:18:40.000 Her son's at Harvard.

00:18:41.000 Her daughter's at Cornell.

00:18:43.000 She's married to the Ivy League. 1.00

00:18:45.000 And that's why she looks down on everyone else as a bunch of stupid losers who didn't vote the right way because they're not as smart as she is. 1.00

00:18:55.000 I spent many years across from Sonny Hostin on the set of Bill O'Reilly. 1.00

00:18:59.000 She is not as smart as she thinks she is.

00:19:02.000 In fact, I defy you to show me one debate we ever had that she won.

00:19:05.000 There isn't one.

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00:20:17.000 So, I'm not done with the Charlie Kirk homage.

00:20:21.000 Oh, boy.

00:20:21.000 We put together a little bit of you on your college tour just so the audience can see some of the hard work you were doing.

00:20:28.000 Let's play top one.

00:20:29.000 Can you tell me her greatest accomplishment?

00:20:31.000 No, I can't.

00:20:32.000 Can you tell me a single accomplishment?

00:20:35.000 I cannot.

00:20:36.000 I want to leave.

00:20:41.000 What is Kamala Harris's greatest accomplishment?

00:20:43.000 Could you please explain why under a Trump presidency it would be more beneficial to me than a Harris presidency?

00:20:55.000 I want to try to win you over as a liberal for Donald Trump.

00:20:58.000 Why should I vote for Trump?

00:21:00.000 There's no guesswork in this election.

00:21:02.000 We know the type of president that Trump was and that he will be.

00:21:05.000 There are three things I want you to think about when voting for Trump.

00:21:08.000 Homeownership, border, war.

00:21:10.000 Three objective things.

00:21:12.000 When I decide, just in case, can I have a hat?

00:21:14.000 You can have a hat.

00:21:15.000 So which way are you leaning?

00:21:17.000 Can I get a hat?

00:21:19.000 That's a good answer.

00:21:20.000 How are you leaning this election?

00:21:22.000 Well, after what you said, Trump...

00:21:24.000 Let's go!

00:21:29.000 All right, and two points on that, Charlie.

00:21:30.000 So we had a bunch of kids from my son's high school here with me in studio on election night.

00:21:36.000 And, you know, maybe like, whatever, 15 of them.

00:21:39.000 And they were all Trump supporters.

00:21:41.000 There was no screening.

00:21:43.000 Like, we're only taking the Trump supporters.

00:21:44.000 But that just happened to be how it worked out.

00:21:47.000 And that third point, war, was a big one for all of them.

00:21:51.000 They're actually really worried about this neocon strain in the Democrat Party because they're the ones who are going to have to go fight it.

00:22:01.000 And so you were tapping into exactly the right thing.

00:22:04.000 And then one other cue point.

00:22:05.000 Um, my kids are in school all day and therefore do not listen to my show every day.

00:22:09.000 They listen to it here and there and they get clips on social media.

00:22:12.000 And, um, we were talking this week about who I had coming on today and I told him Charlie Kirk and my, my son and my daughter, she's 13, he's 15.

00:22:22.000 Go, you know, Charlie Kirk.

00:22:23.000 I'm like, yes, I know Charlie Kirk.

00:22:27.000 Yes.

00:22:27.000 Oh, could we meet Charlie Kirk?

00:22:29.000 I'm like, I think I could arrange it at some point.

00:22:30.000 But that's how young, like a 13-year-old girl, she's seen your clip.

00:22:35.000 She's been influenced by you.

00:22:36.000 They watched you on that show.

00:22:38.000 Where do they surround you when you debate all the people?

00:22:40.000 Jubilee.

00:22:41.000 Jubilee, they watched you there.

00:22:42.000 That was something.

00:22:43.000 I mean, you're making a huge difference, not just in today's voters, but in the next up-and-coming ones who are going to be voting four years from now, Charlie.

00:22:51.000 It's huge.

00:22:52.000 I do feel there's something divine going on.

00:22:54.000 You were chosen for some reason.

00:22:56.000 Well, I'm humbled.

00:22:58.000 And I said this.

00:22:58.000 Well, thank you, Megan.

00:22:59.000 And I'd love to meet your kids.

00:23:01.000 And I just I said this on election night.

00:23:04.000 God gave us grace as a nation.

00:23:07.000 I'm humbled by it.

00:23:08.000 I say praise God.

00:23:10.000 I'm just a small part.

00:23:12.000 And he used what we were doing.

00:23:13.000 I mean this.

00:23:15.000 I had zero expectation.

00:23:17.000 That what we were going to do was actually going to move the dial this much.

00:23:21.000 We did it out of obedience.

00:23:23.000 We did it out of, hey, let's play the role.

00:23:25.000 You know what it's like on a campaign, right, Megan?

00:23:27.000 Oh, we can move, you know, a couple hundred people and do your part and it all adds up.

00:23:32.000 I had no idea that this thing was going to set off the way it did.

00:23:37.000 And I mean, we look at...

00:23:40.000 We look at these youth vote numbers.

00:23:42.000 It's not normal.

00:23:43.000 It's the best performance by a Republican since 1988.

00:23:49.000 And allow me to say one other thing about the youth vote that I think you'll really appreciate, Megan, which is the Democrats underestimated how much pent-up rebellion energy was there because of how they were treated and lied to during COVID and the political correct regime that coupled with COVID. We're good to go.

00:24:26.000 And so now, four years later, this Gen Z was like, you know what? 0.68

00:24:31.000 You guys in charge, the same people that were trying to lock up Trump, you guys materially messed up my life, and I don't like you.

00:24:41.000 And I think the Democrats misread the vibe.

00:24:45.000 We're all about the vibe.

00:24:47.000 They misread it.

00:24:49.000 And we happened to read the room.

00:24:52.000 We saw it.

00:24:53.000 And again, these kids were disproportionately punished for doing nothing wrong during COVID for extended periods of time.

00:25:03.000 And the Democrats just shrugged their shoulders.

00:25:05.000 Oh, kids will get over it. 0.98

00:25:06.000 Think about it, Megan.

00:25:08.000 You remember probably years 13 through 17 more than years, you know, 23 through 27.

00:25:14.000 Those are your formative years.

00:25:15.000 And they were robbed by these kids, from these kids.

00:25:19.000 And so we played into that in the best possible way.

00:25:23.000 And Donald Trump became this ascendant symbol of we're going to take back the country so that you can have a better future.

00:25:32.000 And as I said, at almost every campus stop, you guys represent the first generation since George Washington to have it worse off than your parents.

00:25:40.000 It is a breakdown in a social contract. 0.71

00:25:42.000 You are the most depressed, anxious, suicidal, drug addicted, psychiatric drug addicted, alcohol addicted generation in history. 0.96

00:25:52.000 You guys deserve better.

00:25:54.000 We do politics basically for one reason, to leave a better future for our kids.

00:25:59.000 I mean, all the other stuff is fine, but that's really why we do this, right?

00:26:01.000 So that you can keep this beautiful experiment going.

00:26:04.000 And we failed in that.

00:26:06.000 And this next generation had a say to try to make sure that they could also have access to the American dream like their parents.

00:26:12.000 And they spoke decisively.

00:26:13.000 And every Democrat right now is scratching their head, going through precinct by precinct, wondering why their safe spots of college campuses like Dane County, Wisconsin, like Center County, Pennsylvania, like Arizona State, like University of Arizona in Tucson, why they moved 20 to 25 points in Donald Trump's direction.

00:26:35.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:26:36.000 Email us, as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

The Charlie Kirk Show - November 14, 2024

The Youth Vote that Delivered the Win — My Appearance on The Megyn Kelly Show

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