If Vice President JD Vance wants to assume the White House after President Donald Trump’s term, he is going to need to keep much of the coalition his boss has created.
Among them are young voters who have been a traditional bloc for Democrats, and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk warned Friday that the GOP could lose them if the party doesn’t start delivering real economic results.
“The biggest threat to the Republican Party in 2028 is if we do not deliver on our promises of [home] ownership for the next generation,” Kirk said to Fox News Digital at the Turning Point Student Action Summit in Tampa. “The youth vote didn’t just vote for Donald Trump. Young voters put Donald Trump in the White House.”
Kirk spoke about the future of the conservative movement, the growing shift among Gen Z voters, and why Big Tech is now suddenly trying to cozy up to the right.
He said younger voters are trending conservative, no doubt about it, and pointed to the damage done by the COVID pandemic as a major reason.
“There’s very low trust of institutions and the institutions have failed them,” Kirk said. “Primarily, if you’re 18, 19, 20, 21 right now, that kind of portion of Generation Z, they were lied to during COVID and so much of their livelihood and so much of what they care about, and they’re deeply passionate about was taken from them abruptly… So they’re a little bitter about that.”
