How Charlie Kirk shaped a generation of young people into a conservative force

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

74% : And his whole staff for their relentless efforts to achieve this very historic victory," Trump said at a Turning Point gathering in Arizona last December.
48% : He hiked, kayaked to reach victim Early on, Kirk described his group as a student organization that advocated for free markets and limited government.
38% : "You don't replace a Charlie Kirk," Trump told reporters Thursday.
35% : Read more: Politics Conservative activist Charlie Kirk dies after being shot at Utah college event HANNAH SCHOENBAUM, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and MARK SHERMAN Associated Press Politics Charlie Kirk, who helped build support for Trump among young people, dies NICHOLAS RICCARDI and ALI SWENSON Associated Press Politics Charlie Kirk's shooting death exposes security gaps at political events JIM MUSTIAN and MICHAEL BIESECKER Associated Press Photos: Notable deaths in 2025 Kitty Dukakis Mia Love Denis Arndt Richard Chamberlain Val Kilmer Wink Martindale Pope Francis Steve McMichael Ruth Buzzi Jim Dent
31% : In 2018, Turning Point said a Chicago university denied requests for him to speak on their campus citing safety concerns, and a Florida high school would not allow him to speak to students two months after a teenager with an assault rifle killed 17 people there. Kirk helped mobilize youth for Trump In 2024, Kirk used his speech at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee to praise Trump as an economic master and argue that Gen Z voters could not afford another Democratic administration.
31% : That was a much narrower gap than in 2020, when Joe Biden outpaced Trump 61% to 36%.
30% : "No one understood or had the heart of the youth in the United States of America better than Charlie," Trump said Wednesday after Kirk was assassinated while speaking at a college in Utah. People are also reading...
22% : " According to AP VoteCast, a survey of the 2024 electorate, 47% of voters aged 18-29 opted for Trump, while 51% went for former Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee.

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