Kirk’s outreach on college campuses fi lled that void with a positive, faith-friendly message. Working-class young people without sheepskins sensed Trump’s America First agenda gave them a better chance at fi nding a job and a path to success.


going to do that ” he remembers thinking. “Why don’t you start somewhere easier, like, for example, Communist Cuba!” Of course, that was before Rubio


met Kirk, a human dynamo who traveled 300 days a year raising funds, attending events, building his organization, and sharing the conservative gospel with college kids nationwide. “The youngest voters once were


the surest locks for Democrats,” Matt Taibbi, who directs Racket News and hosts America This Week with Walter Kirn on Substack, tells Newsmax. “And that’s just not hap- pening anymore.” That shift was most evident


among young men. According to Pew Research, as recently as 2021, Democrats outpolled Republicans among men ages 18-24 by 61%-34%. But by 2024, that picture


changed dramatically. Pew showed Republicans actually taking a 47%- 46% lead among Gen Zs — a stun- ning reversal. Rubio, now secretary of state,


noted that Kirk’s message resonated especially with Gen Z males. “He had a very special and direct impact on young men in this country. That’s one of the greatest developments I’ve seen,” he said. On Election Day 2024, Associ-


ated Press exit polls showed Gen Z men favoring Trump by a stunning


14% margin, 54%-42%. True, young women still favored Democrat standard-bearer Kamala Harris by 17%, and that gave her a slight lead among young voters overall. But Trump was gaining ground


even among Gen Z women and en- joyed the best showing among young- er voters by a Republican in decades. Taibbi, also of Twitter Files fame,


links the Gen Z paradigm shift to “the spiritual crisis in ‘mainstream’ America, where young college-age Americans are struggling with a loss of belief and direction.” Kirk’s outreach on college cam-


puses fi lled that void with a positive, faith-friendly message. Working- class young people without sheep-


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