Charlie Kirk Reveals How Youth Voters and Alternative Media Delivered Trump's 2024 Victory

[00:00] Charlie

[00:02] congratulations thank you well as as uh

[00:05] kamla Harris would say we did it Joe uh

[00:07] but we did it Megan um and and your you

[00:10] your speech was awesome by the way thank

[00:13] you for your support and how amazing

[00:15] that was uh I really believed that moved

[00:17] votes and not to mention just your

[00:20] podcast here I think it held the line

[00:23] with sane women in this country and gave

[00:25] them an understanding of the stakes and

[00:27] gave them an understanding of really

[00:29] what we up against and so you deserve a

[00:31] lot of credit too Megan uh because this

[00:33] was really a coalition um there's so

[00:36] much to unpack from this election uh

[00:39] part of it is also how alternative media

[00:42] was able to crush uh the major

[00:44] propagandist networks and you look at

[00:47] four years ago during covid all of our

[00:49] alternative media was largely censored

[00:51] but we won this time podcasts and shows

[00:53] like this one Joe Rogan my show um the

[00:56] all-in podcast uh the left couldn't keep

[00:59] up with it and president Trump to his

[01:01] great credit uh built a once in a

[01:04] lifetime Unity ticket which I think the

[01:07] media completely underestimated from

[01:09] Bobby Kennedy to Tulsi gabard um and

[01:12] then finally of course it cannot be

[01:15] repeated enough God bless Elon Musk I

[01:17] mean that guy put it all on the line I

[01:19] mean it wasn't just like he wrote a

[01:21] check and hoped it would get better he

[01:23] lived in Pennsylvania the last 45 days

[01:27] of the election he personally would host

[01:30] Town Halls across the state of

[01:32] Pennsylvania he was giving away a

[01:34] million dollars a day to random citizens

[01:36] to help encourage citizen participation

[01:39] and so there's a lot of people that

[01:40] deserve credit we all kind of played a

[01:42] small role uh and that's why it feels so

[01:45] different than 2016 2016 was just

[01:48] lightning in a bottle took him by

[01:49] surprise it was a movement this was

[01:52] really 30 or 40 different people that

[01:55] went all in that we just called The

[01:58] Bluff of the Democrats and we beat the

[02:00] most powerful thing ever to exist in the

[02:03] history of the world it's pretty awesome

[02:05] praise God oh it's amazing and you are

[02:08] so generous and kind to be giving me any

[02:11] credit when you truly deserve actual

[02:13] credit for getting Donald Trump elected

[02:15] I mean truly you're one of a handful of

[02:17] five that really made the difference and

[02:19] we need look no further than the youth

[02:21] vote that wasn't the exclusive reign of

[02:24] your influence but man when have young

[02:27] people come out for the Republican I

[02:31] mean like never and especially in

[02:34] today's day and age where he's been

[02:35] totally demonized all over Tik Tok and

[02:38] the sources of information that they use

[02:42] but you reached billions I mean

[02:46] obviously there's not that many people

[02:47] voting in this election but I mean the

[02:48] number of views of your videos going out

[02:51] onto these college campuses you know uh

[02:54] challenging them saying go ahead like

[02:56] why are you voting for her let's walk

[02:58] through it that would go viral every

[03:00] time we have to look at some of them cuz

[03:02] like I said it's just so fun right now

[03:04] uh here's one woman who was very much

[03:07] determined uh to believe that Donald

[03:09] Trump is a racist and here's Charlie

[03:11] dismantling her s two you got to give me

[03:13] a good reason at least two why you don't

[03:16] like Trump he's

[03:19] racist y boom

[03:21] me can you can you define what does it

[03:24] mean to be

[03:27] racist do you do you want me to look a

[03:30] definition no no I want you to you you

[03:31] said he's a racist so you must you must

[03:33] have a definition of racism in your mind

[03:35] tell me what that definition

[03:37] is okay

[03:40] so I'm going to make make you guys wait

[03:42] on this o zero knowledge guys please

[03:46] don't Heckle it's hatred towards another

[03:48] race right so when has he ever exhibited

[03:52] that give me spe clear and specific

[03:54] examples you got

[03:57] what um well yeah I heard someone say he

[04:00] told uh

[04:07] told yes okay but let me just help you

[04:11] out here

[04:12] uhuh what you think he's a racist cuz

[04:14] the media has told you he's a racist

[04:17] because you can't give me an example off

[04:18] the top of your head and even when you

[04:20] phone a friend to the audience not I'm

[04:21] not criticizing you maybe the media is

[04:24] lying to

[04:26] you wow truer words were never spoken

[04:29] how many exchanges do you think you had

[04:31] like that on college campuses oh I mean

[04:33] we we had hundreds this semester that

[04:35] particular video by the way received

[04:37] over 60 million views on Tik Tok alone

[04:40] uh 60 and that's just and so we tallied

[04:42] it up it was again billions of views

[04:44] that means that Target young voters were

[04:46] watching our content six seven eight

[04:48] nine 10 times and so so Megan we do

[04:51] these tours I visited 25 college

[04:53] campuses uh this semester which is the

[04:56] most I've ever done and over the summer

[04:58] we said how do we make a difference and

[05:00] we were doing these videos in the spring

[05:02] and I came up with the idea I said man I

[05:03] think the election is going to be as hot

[05:05] as a pistol I think there's going to be

[05:06] a lot of interest why don't we do the

[05:08] most tours ever but instead of the

[05:10] traditional evening events why don't we

[05:12] do these kind of dialogues and these

[05:14] exchanges to try to see if we can um

[05:17] show the world the contrast of ideas and

[05:20] to see which ideas are better and to

[05:22] kind of create um this digital movement

[05:26] of people that are want to make up their

[05:28] mind and and it was way more successful

[05:31] than I could have ever have imagined and

[05:32] part of it was how unscripted it was

[05:35] there was there was no anyone could come

[05:37] up at any time a professor a

[05:40] professional debater you could bring

[05:41] notes you could bring 10 friends with

[05:43] you it doesn't there's no rules right

[05:45] and so that's very interesting to an

[05:47] audience both digital and in person and

[05:50] it was so real when so much of this

[05:52] campaign on the Democrat side was fake

[05:55] and synthetic and so here we were with

[05:58] the most real thing you can do which is

[06:00] set up a table and talk to people that

[06:02] are 180 degrees opposed to you and so we

[06:06] started doing these events in early the

[06:08] first one we did was University

[06:09] Wisconsin Madison and we drew 2,000

[06:12] people and I said I've been doing this

[06:14] for 12 years okay I've done more on

[06:17] college campuses than I think anybody in

[06:18] this space not you know belittling

[06:20] anybody but it's been the fields of

[06:22] which I've been working for 12 years

[06:24] we'd be lucky to get like a hundred

[06:26] people and a lot of protesters right we

[06:28] drew 2,000 people in Madison is our

[06:30] first one in September and I turned to

[06:32] my team I said is this an anomaly is

[06:33] there something happening at Madison

[06:35] that I don't know and all of a sudden we

[06:37] did three or four more and it was

[06:38] becoming the rule and I said to my team

[06:42] I said guys something is happening on

[06:43] these campuses and the media was

[06:45] ignoring it in fact we were mocked on

[06:47] social media by all this the

[06:50] intelligency of the political uh

[06:52] establishment right and the left saying

[06:54] oh you know the the polls show that

[06:56] younger voters are going to go for comml

[06:58] than ever before and I said well maybe

[07:00] but what I'm seeing is unlike anything

[07:02] I've ever seen before and not only that

[07:04] Megan our ground game and our ground

[07:06] team was registering these kids to vote

[07:08] we were getting thousands and thousands

[07:09] of these firsttime voters so it wasn't

[07:11] just like okay let's put on a show and

[07:13] we leave we were translating the support

[07:16] into votes which is kind of the was the

[07:19] operating thesis um it was our our our

[07:23] theory of the case if you will as we

[07:24] were going into this and then finally as

[07:27] a kicker you know we had mark mckin and

[07:29] go to one of our campus stops who who's

[07:32] a fair guy but he's definitely not a

[07:33] Trumper and he was a bush guy he did the

[07:35] circus uh and I I've always had respect

[07:38] for him and he he started to see this

[07:40] stuff on social media and to his credit

[07:42] to his credit unlike anybody else he's

[07:43] like I need to see this I don't believe

[07:45] he was almost like I don't believe it so

[07:47] he went to the University of Georgia and

[07:48] we drew 5,000 people Megan 5,000 people

[07:52] uh at the University of Georgia and he

[07:54] went he was like I said that KL was

[07:56] going to win but now I'm second guessing

[07:58] myself based on what he saw I was like

[08:00] yeah Mark I mean there's something

[08:02] happening here and now the exit polls we

[08:04] won the youth vote in Michigan we almost

[08:07] won it Wisconsin in Pennsylvania we

[08:09] don't know but we almost flipped senar

[08:11] County which is Penn State we got within

[08:14] one point of it which usually it's a 20o

[08:16] Democrat Victory there and we went to

[08:19] Penn State and did a massive event we

[08:20] did five events in Penn State by the way

[08:22] um this cycle for obvious reasons and

[08:25] it's it's it's tempting to say that it

[08:27] was a landslide which it was

[08:30] however let me kind of humble the

[08:31] audience a little bit Donald Trump won

[08:33] by less than a point in Wisconsin about

[08:36] 28,000 votes he won by a poish point

[08:40] point one. two in Michigan and then he

[08:43] won by one point in Pennsyvania and so

[08:46] Megan it is conceivable that without

[08:49] this record movement of Youth vote he

[08:52] doesn't win and I'm not saying that

[08:54] because I'm you know in that space But

[08:57] we're talking about a point and a half

[08:59] across three states now the Sun Belt

[09:01] states were more generous and were more

[09:04] decisive but as you know everyone was

[09:06] saying if you can't win a Rust Belt

[09:07] State KL is President so you could say

[09:11] that the kids are all right and the kids

[09:13] put Donald Trump back in the White House

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