10 Top Young Influencers
grow up in a world of smart- phones and digital media, moved sharply toward Trump and the GOP in 2024. Republican strategists are
praying Trump can hold on to his new under-30 supporters — and Democrats are terrified he will.
Democrats’ Brave New World Analysts and pollsters attri- bute Trump’s victory in large measure to the greatest surge of young voter support into the GOP camp since Ronald Reagan decimated Walter Mondale in 1984. Trump carried men under 30 by a whopping 14 points, 56%-42%, according to post-election analysis by Tufts University’s Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning and Engage- ment (CIRCLE). Although Democrat nomi-
Conservative
Many GOP voters remain largely unaware of the unconventional, under-40 influencers who are challenging traditional media in the name of traditional values, but their sway with young voters played a major role in Donald Trump’s return trip to the White House.
nees typically need to capture about 60% of young voters to win national elections, former Vice President Kamala Harris, who was cherry-picked as a younger and more vibrant al- ternative to former President Joe Biden, got just 54%. Harris carried the total un-
der-30 vote by 4 points, com- pared to a 25-point advantage for Biden four years earlier. A recent Gallup and Wal-
ton Family Foundation study found today’s teens are twice as likely to identify as conser- vative as their parents. That systemic collapse in
young voter support threatens any Democrat candidate’s path to the 271 Electoral Col- lege votes needed to win a national election.
Henry Olsen, a senior
fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, said the under-30 backlash may “put Republicans in the political
A recent Gallup and Walton Family Foundation study found today’s teens are twice as likely to identify as conservative as their parents.
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million TikTok followers » Anyone assaulting conservative values must first get past Charles James Kirk and, as reflected in online videos of him debating college students, good luck with that. Kirk is founder and president of Turning Point USA, an activist group with chapters on more than 1,000 college campuses nationwide, and host of The Charlie Kirk Show podcast. His group organizes massive annual conferences, including the recent Gen Z-friendly America Fest in Phoenix that was
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Charlie Kirk, 31, TURNING POINT USA
» Reach: 2.9 million YouTube subscribers; 5.8
driver’s seat for a generation or more.” Pollster Doug Schoen, writ- ing in The Hill, warned fellow Democrats they must find a way to pull younger Ameri- cans away from Trump and the GOP. “These findings suggest
that it will be challeng- ing to fix what appears to be an endemic problem,” Schoen wrote. How could a 78-year-old
real estate magnate from Queens, New York, generate such a strong appeal to young voters that Harris and former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton were powerless to overcome it? And like so much else
these days, the answer begins with Trump. “This belongs to Donald
Trump,” longtime conserva- tive Matt Towery, an Insider- Advantage pollster, tells Newsmax. “This doesn’t belong to the Republicans. “This is his. He created
it, and it’s going to be the Republican Party’s respon- sibility to abandon the days
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