Kirk’s non-profit, Turning Point Action, is planning a $100m ‘chase the vote’ operation to help propel the ex-president to the White House, but his outsized influence is being subjected to scrutiny
Charlie Kirk stepped out on to the stage at the Turning Point Action convention in Detroit, Michigan, this month as though it were him – and not his hero– who was running for president. Red, white and blue strobe lights buzzed over the 2,000-strong crowd, pyrotechnics blazed around him and bass speakers boomed out so loudly that it made your bone marrow quake.
Offstage, Kirk has had a seismic impact on the Republican party at both the state and national level. Now, in the thick of a historically critical presidential election, Kirk is aspiring to go one bigger.Turning Point Action , the political advocacy wing of his mushrooming operation, is planning to inject more than $100m in a get-out-the-vote campaign. Should it live up to Kirk’s extravagant claims, it could propel Trump back into the White House.with the Trump campaign.
The bigger his empire has grown, the more money has poured in – revenues for his non-profit group Turning Point USA skyrocketed from $8m in 2017 to $80m in 2022 – giving rise to questions about where that money, and Turning Point, are going. Kirk, 30, grew up in Wheeling, a suburb of Chicago where he attended a school which in the course of his childhood switched from being mostly white to majority Black, Latino and Asian. The experience of being cast into the minority had a profound effect on the young Reagan-obsessed Kirk, according to Kyle Spencer, author of“His rage really seems to have originated with this idea, that he was seeing his power base dwindle,” she said.
But what really gave him his lift was the advent of Trump in 2015 and the 2016 presidential campaign in which Kirk served as personal aide to Don Jr. Since then, Kirk has hung on tight to Trump’s coattails and has been handsomely rewarded for doing so.of the false claim that mail-in voting was riddled with fraud. He also deployed buses to carry Trump supporters to the Save America rally in Washington DC that preceded the Capitol insurrection on 6 January 2021.
Both Hoffman and Bowyer are being prosecuted for their role as so-called “fake electors” in which they allegedly plotted to prevent Joe Biden’s victory in the presidential election by sending an alternative slate of electors to Congress. They deny the charges. The blowback has been visceral. The reviled mainstream media has begun to focus on how comfortably Kirk is doing, with thewho has been close to Trump for more than a decade, has accused Kirk of breeding a new generation of Hitler Youth. Scott told the Guardian that Kirk was damaging Trump’s chances of winning in November by alienating Black voters.
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