Turnout is ‘not where we want it’

One of Donald Trump’s most rabid online supporters made a quasi-hysterical plea for voters to go to the polls on Tuesday afternoon amid concerns that turnout could be set to “flatline”.

“The turnout is mixed and not where we want it. We need more people to vote,” Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point Action and a staunch younger voice of the Republican Party, wrote to X.

“Text everyone you know. Make more noise. We need more,” he added.

Kicking off a later live stream at the Rumble, compellingly titled “Judgment Day,” Kirk further lamented “a lot of ambiguity” about how the vote could shape up in the hours that followed, pleading with Pennsylvania voters to send an e- mail “if you have any clarity about what’s going on” in the decisive swing mode.

“Empty your phone – text everyone you know who isn’t a Lib, text every single one of your friends and ask them: Did you vote, did you vote, did you vote?” he added later. “This thing is going to be really tight, it’s going to be really close. The work you do in the next few hours is going to be really important.”

At 31, Kirk, who previously defended the Trump supporters who besieged the US Capitol on January 6, has assumed a commanding presence in the Republican camp over the past few weeks as part of the GOP’s efforts to mobilize young male voters.

These efforts have been carried out in part through Kirk’s “You’re Being Brainwashed Tour,” which has seen him stop at liberal-leaning colleges across the United States to hold court on campus with students on a variety of hot-button election issues, most recently accompanied by former Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy.

Kirk’s organization, Turning Point, has also been instrumental in pitching Republican candidates to citizens in key states like Arizona and Wisconsin, so much so that the group has taken to describing itself as “an official arm of the Trump campaign,” according to Associated Press.

An evangelical Christian, Kirk’s rhetoric often focuses on the perceived threat to traditional values ​​allegedly posed by the Harris campaign, having previously described the Democratic Party as “stand(ing) for everything God hates” and casting the vote as a “spiritual battle” between good and evil.

He has also routinely supported Trump’s debunked claims of fraud in the 2020 election and has pushed additional unsubstantiated claims of election fraud in front of current polls.

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