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LeftInTX

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17. The answer is Charlie Kirk. His group registered young Republicans on campuses.

Tue Sep 16, 2025, 03:56 PM

Sep 16

Many adults & seniors don’t know who he is but kids do. There are over 3000 Turning Points chapters in US high schools and colleges. Now- after his death, Turning Points has over 20,000 requests for new Turning Point chapters in schools. There is a video out this week of kids protesting their school for refusing to let them open a Turning Points chapter. Then we have Israel flying all the young conservative Christian influencers in Turning Points for free to Israel. Charlie’s wife Ericka said the first time she saw Charlie was in a line in Israel and then later they traveled together to Israel,

How do Dems counter this? We could end up with 20,000 Turning Points chapters in our high schools and colleges. I think this should be a big concern. Hopefully, without Kirk, the kids will lose interest, The majority of young Republican kids are now polling as anti-genocide so I don’t think they will take to Zionist Ben Shapiro who wants to replace Kirk.
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