Charlie Kirk and Candace Owens Discuss Why Conservative Ideas Struggle to Reach Young People on College Campuses

[00:00] I'm gonna ask you all by a show of hands

[00:02] how many of you believe that most young

[00:05] people identify more with liberals and

[00:08] conservatives what do you think 70

[00:12] percent I got a few yeah how many of you

[00:15] think they identify more with

[00:16] conservatives now wait a minute this

[00:20] ain't making sense nobody raised their

[00:22] hand for conservatives that only about

[00:24] 70 percent for liberals but anyway let's

[00:27] bring out a few people are changing the

[00:29] way we think young people look at

[00:31] conservativism a big welcome to

[00:33] turning-point USA powder

[00:35] Charlie Kirk Turning Point

[00:36] communications director Candice Owings

[00:39] an adviser to the 2020 Trump campaign

[00:42] Katrina Pierson hi everybody welcome

[00:45] great to have you all here all right so

[00:48] I believe that most young people are

[00:51] more young people identify with liberals

[00:54] then conservatives and Candace Owens

[00:56] I'll start with you is that do you think

[00:58] that's right or am I totally off-base I

[01:00] think it is right but it's changing

[01:02] we're seeing sort of a shifting paradigm

[01:04] thanks to a lot of the efforts led by

[01:06] Turning Point USA and also the president

[01:09] we have a president that actually

[01:10] appeals to the youth generation or and

[01:13] Charlie it's not that young people are

[01:15] opposed to conservative ideas it's just

[01:17] that exposed to them at all in the first

[01:19] place and you know Candace and I we did

[01:21] a historic campus tour this last year I

[01:24] think we're the only conservative duo to

[01:26] go to Stanford UC Berkeley and UCLA in a

[01:29] span of a month and lived to tell about

[01:30] it

[01:34] was there any arson was there a

[01:36] twelve-hour riot UCLA we had a little

[01:39] fun a little bit of fun they were

[01:40] definitely blaring Beyonce music trying

[01:42] to drown out our voices but I mean it's

[01:44] a fight it's a cultural war we're in

[01:46] where do you think it started you know

[01:47] Katrina you were in the 20 in the 2016

[01:50] race um you were spokesman you all

[01:51] recognize Katrina she was a spokesman

[01:53] for the president why why the dissidents

[01:58] why is there such an inability to get

[02:01] young people to come out and why are

[02:02] campuses the feeding ground for hate for

[02:06] people on the right well I think

[02:07] Charlie's right a lot of it is exposure

[02:09] a lot of people say well Donald Trump

[02:10] has a millennial problem and I say no

[02:13] that

[02:13] P has a millennial problem and it is

[02:16] because so many people have not been

[02:18] exposed to conservative principles or

[02:20] conservative values and those who are

[02:23] exposed to them they're being preached

[02:25] to and not spoken to and I think that

[02:27] has caused a huge disconnect with a

[02:29] large number of young people on top of

[02:31] that you have most of the professors in

[02:33] the Universities are very liberal and

[02:36] you top that off with the fake news

[02:38] media 60% of Millennials think Donald

[02:40] Trump is a racist I'm a black woman and

[02:42] he chose me to represent his 2016

[02:44] presidential campaign Oh ridiculous it

[02:46] is and you know we can pull up a poll

[02:49] here Trump's popularity among young

[02:52] people 69% of people aged 15 to 26

[02:57] disapprove of presidents trumped

[03:00] performance as a president can decide go

[03:02] back to you wait a minute isn't the

[03:04] economy doing great now or well first

[03:08] and foremost we don't pay attention too

[03:10] much to the polls I mean they told us

[03:11] that Hillary was gonna win and they were

[03:12] 80% sure and she's not sitting in the

[03:14] Oval Office last I checked but look I

[03:17] think that this president particular is

[03:19] going to appeal a lot more to the youth

[03:21] generation because something about him

[03:23] feels very punk-rock and rebellious he's

[03:25] a rebellious president he's rebelling

[03:26] against the establishment he's rebelling

[03:28] against the mainstream media and it's

[03:31] something that we identify with when

[03:32] you're younger you're sort of in a more

[03:34] rebellious phase and it's something that

[03:35] this country needs to rebell against

[03:37] these socialist principles that are

[03:38] being taught on the Left thank you we

[03:44] have a question from the audience so

[03:46] looking back at the election

[03:48] this past November and the 2016

[03:50] presidential election are you seeing

[03:52] trends among college students going

[03:53] forward with voting on if they're gonna

[03:55] vote conservative and this 2020

[03:57] lectionary gonna see a liberal turnout

[03:59] for them charlie so the Democrats did a

[04:02] little bit better with younger voters in

[04:04] the 2018 midterm so they did not do as

[04:06] well as they thought they would do and

[04:08] they did not do well enough to win

[04:10] states like Ohio and Florida you see

[04:12] states like New York and California

[04:13] where younger voters are becoming more

[04:15] and more radical where they consider

[04:17] Nancy Pelosi to be a moderate which is

[04:19] kind of horrifying to think about you're

[04:21] gonna see more of those Acacio cortes

[04:23] type candidates but you look at Florida

[04:24] you look at now governor

[04:26] electron DeSantis what he was able to do

[04:28] there it's absolutely amazing to

[04:29] energize younger voters and even

[04:31] african-american female voters in a way

[04:33] that really defied conventional norms

[04:35] should the president visit colleges in

[04:38] 2019 absolutely question colleges

[04:42] without question it really matters he's

[04:45] got to engage the youth more and I think

[04:47] that the future of this country depends

[04:49] on it

[04:50] all right I think we have another

[04:51] question here yes my question had to do

[04:55] with 2020 in the election coming up it's

[04:57] not too early to plan for it and there

[04:58] some that are saying that in the suburbs

[05:00] we lost ground I'm wondering how we can

[05:04] make up for when we have 92 percent of

[05:06] the media going against us go ahead

[05:08] Katrina well we lost a little bit of

[05:11] ground in the suburbs but in some areas

[05:12] we didn't I don't know if those numbers

[05:14] have come out yet but I'll also say you

[05:17] know one of the things that the

[05:19] president is very good at is you know

[05:20] speaking directly to the American public

[05:23] which is why the rallies are so

[05:25] important and why going to college

[05:27] campuses would be an amazing opportunity

[05:29] to talk directly to young people because

[05:32] what President Trump does what most

[05:34] politicians at least on the Republican

[05:36] side doesn't do is speak directly about

[05:39] the issues for so long you've had GOP

[05:42] candidates who want to talk about

[05:43] philosophy and they want to talk about

[05:45] their three hundred and forty-one point

[05:47] plan to fix the economy what Donald

[05:49] Trump just says I'm gonna bring you jobs

[05:51] I'm gonna do X Y & Z to do it and that's

[05:53] what young people want they want to know

[05:55] that when they get out of college

[05:56] they're gonna have a job they want to

[05:58] know that their future is bright okay

[06:00] last word I just want to add what we

[06:02] lost in the suburbs we can certainly

[06:03] make up for in the projects I think that

[06:05] black America is paying attention right

[06:07] now and that he should go there you

[06:08] should speak to them because as the left

[06:10] appeals more and more to illegal aliens

[06:12] there's one group of individuals that

[06:14] are being forgotten about and that's

[06:15] black America