Charlie Kirk Delivers Powerful Message to Gen Z at Republican National Convention on American Dream

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[00:03] Ladies and gentlemen, Charlie Kirk.

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[00:23] Thank you everybody. Thank you.

[00:27] Good evening. I'm Charlie Kirk, founder

[00:29] of Turning Point USA and Turning Point

[00:32] Action.

[00:36] Together, the largest conservative

[00:38] grassroots organizations in the country.

[00:42] Thanks to our work, I talk to a lot of

[00:44] young people on campuses, at our events,

[00:48] on my radio show, podcast, and social

[00:50] media. Said differently, I visit college

[00:53] campuses so you don't have to.

[00:59] I hear a lot from young people about

[01:01] their hopes, their dreams, and their

[01:04] fears. You see, young people are

[01:08] idealists. They respond to vision. For

[01:12] the past four years, they've seen the

[01:14] vision of the Biden Harris regime. That

[01:18] vision is you'll own nothing and be

[01:21] happy.

[01:23] The Democrats say instead of owning a

[01:26] home, you'll rent a 400 square f foot

[01:29] studio apartment. Instead of owning a

[01:32] car, you'll rent a scooter using some

[01:34] app. Their vision is this. Limit your

[01:38] dreams. Give up. Aim lower. Be content

[01:42] with less.

[01:44] If you're a 20some in America, life has

[01:47] been really tough. You've watched home

[01:49] prices rise 47%

[01:52] since 2020. 47%.

[01:55] Home ownership is now out of reach

[01:57] unless you make over $16,000

[02:01] a year. Since I last spoke at the

[02:04] Republican convention four years ago,

[02:06] I've become a husband and father.

[02:10] In fact, we have two under two. I think

[02:14] I get extra points for that.

[02:17] For millions of people my age, that is a

[02:20] dream that feels farther away than ever

[02:23] under the Biden Harris administration.

[02:26] According to current projections,

[02:28] one-third of today's young Americans

[02:30] will never get married. The average

[02:32] American is having fewer children than

[02:35] ever before. Why? It's because for far

[02:39] too many, they simply can't afford them.

[02:44] The basic things our parents enjoyed are

[02:47] increasingly out of reach for Gen Z and

[02:49] millennials. You see, the American dream

[02:53] has become a luxury item for the wealthy

[02:56] elite.

[02:58] Happy countries have children. Broken

[03:01] countries have addiction, depression,

[03:04] and suffering.

[03:06] Democrats have given hundreds of

[03:08] billions of dollars to illegals and

[03:10] foreign nations, while Gen Z has to

[03:13] pinch pennies just so that they can

[03:16] never own a home, never marry, and work

[03:19] until they die, childless. Under Biden,

[03:23] our young people own nothing and they

[03:25] are miserable. Donald Trump refuses to

[03:29] accept this fake, pathetic, mutilated

[03:32] version of the American dream.

[03:38] When he was president, young people were

[03:40] richer than ever before, and he will do

[03:43] it again.

[03:46] Donald Trump is on a rescue mission to

[03:50] revive your birthright,

[03:53] one your grandparents and those before

[03:55] them gave everything to hand down to

[03:57] you. And listen carefully, everybody.

[04:00] This is why young men are the most

[04:04] conservative that they have been in 50

[04:07] years.

[04:15] To all the Jenzers watching this

[04:17] convention on Tik Tok right now, I have

[04:19] a message just for you.

[04:22] You don't have to stay poor. You don't

[04:25] have to accept being worse off than your

[04:27] parents. You don't have to feel aimless

[04:29] and unhappy. You don't have to support

[04:31] leaders who lied to you and took

[04:33] advantage of you for your vote.

[04:36] America's future is a series of choices.

[04:40] Our current state of slow motion

[04:44] national decline is a choice.

[04:48] This November, we're going to choose

[04:51] success.

[04:53] We're going to choose to put the future

[04:55] of Americans first. We are going to

[04:59] choose to no longer be spectators this

[05:03] election. We together are going to do

[05:07] the work to save America. We are going

[05:10] to choose to work harder than ever

[05:12] before to chase ballots, to vote early,

[05:16] to register new voters. and all of us

[05:20] together working harder than ever, we

[05:22] will fire the Biden Harris regime and

[05:26] put Donald Trump back in the White House

[05:28] where he belongs. God bless you guys.

[05:32] Thank you so much.