Charlie Kirk and Michael Knowles Explain Why Trump's Success With Millennials Mirrors Reagan's 1984 Youth Surge

[00:00] Michael uh Charlie seemed to think that

[00:01] this was a bigger problem for Democrats

[00:03] you

[00:04] agree I agree entirely there's no

[00:06] substitute for success and conservatives

[00:09] should not clutch defeat from the jaws

[00:10] of Victory this is a successful

[00:12] presidency thus far we know president

[00:14] Trump did better among Millennials

[00:16] relative to his opponent than either

[00:18] John McCain or Mitt Romney he did very

[00:20] well he did relatively well and better

[00:22] than Romney among Hispanics and that

[00:25] population has increased by between two

[00:27] and three times in the last several

[00:29] decades and it's overwhelmingly young

[00:31] it's overwhelmingly Millennial which

[00:32] skews the millennial vote broadly

[00:34] nevertheless president Trump did fairly

[00:36] well in 1984 Ronald Reagan's support

[00:38] among young voters surged by nearly 40%

[00:42] it surged because his presidency was

[00:43] successful what we've seen in the last

[00:45] few weeks excellent diplomacy in North

[00:48] Korea a good economy returned hostages

[00:50] the Kanye Awakening in public and

[00:53] popular culture these are all great

[00:55] numbers and the only poll that's going

[00:56] to matter is in November 2020 and I

[00:59] think you could see a rep of 1984 if

[01:01] things keep going this way Charlie

[01:02] something that Ben Shapiro wrote

[01:04] recently caught my eye among other

[01:05] things he said the data shows that the

[01:07] youngc conservatives tend toward libert

[01:10] libertarianism on issues like drugs and

[01:12] sex what I referred to a moment ago but

[01:13] share the same priorities as older

[01:15] conservatives on fiscal and economic

[01:18] issues and we heard vice president pence

[01:20] in this Commencement Address kind of

[01:21] allude to that look Donald Trump is

[01:23] getting results on the economy and that

[01:25] matters to young

[01:27] people that's correct I do have to give

[01:29] credit to to this President his view has

[01:31] been more on the foreign policy economic

[01:33] matters and a little bit of a

[01:34] de-emphasis on some of these more

[01:36] controversial divisive social issues I

[01:38] think that's one of the reasons why he's

[01:40] going to continue to do well with all

[01:41] voters but especially young voters

[01:43] heading into 2020 I always make a joke

[01:45] when you look at Democrats and young

[01:46] people's supportive Democrats a young

[01:48] person voting for a Democrat it's like a

[01:50] chicken voting for Colonel Sanders the

[01:51] Democrats want to raise taxes they want

[01:53] to limit Freedom they want to do

[01:54] everything they possibly can it's our

[01:55] generation that's actually going to be

[01:57] hurt the most by Democrat policies and

[01:59] politicians and look the final point

[02:01] I'll make is this is that young people

[02:03] are disengaging from the right versus

[02:05] left labels Democrat versus Republican

[02:07] but again Democrats need younger voters

[02:09] it's one of the three groups that they

[02:10] that they primarily uh need to get base

[02:13] turnout for so that every every ounce of

[02:15] support that they lose hurts them a lot

[02:17] more than rep last Point here though

[02:18] will older conservatives say hang on a

[02:20] second if you're focused on the economy

[02:22] and not on samesex marriage and other

[02:23] issues are you pulling back from

[02:25] Traditional Values that might upset

[02:27] older

[02:28] conservatives politics is Downstream of

[02:31] culture as Andrew Breitbart was fond of

[02:32] saying but we're winning the cultural

[02:34] War I think some conservatives are

[02:36] missing it because they expected us all

[02:38] to start listening to brumms and hideen

[02:40] and drinking Sherry and Tweed suits that

[02:43] isn't what winning the culture looks

[02:44] like what winning the culture looks like

[02:46] is Chance the Rapper tweeting out and

[02:47] saying black people don't need to vote

[02:49] for Democrats and Kanye West saying I

[02:51] like this President I like this

[02:52] Conservative Republican president

[02:54] politics is Downstream of culture but

[02:55] we're winning