""If it weren't for Charlie Kirk, I would not be the vice president of the United States," J. D. Vance said as he hosted The Charlie Kirk Show on Monday. This may well be true: Kirk lobbied for Vance to get the vice-presidential nomination. It's also a reflection of how deeply Donald Trump's White House is intertwined with a thriving ecosystem of partisan podcasters who amplify his agenda-and help set it."
"Kirk's campus-outreach group, Turning Point USA, was ostensibly a grassroots operation, but it was also a mouthpiece for Trumpism. Here's Kirk talking about his voter-outreach operation during last year's presidential race: "We're working directly in harmony with the Trump campaign," he announced in an archive clip aired at the start of Vance's tribute show. "It's been vetted, it's been cleared, it's been blessed," he said of his event, adding, "We're going to try to win this thing.""
Charlie Kirk lobbied for J.D. Vance's vice-presidential nomination and cultivated a large conservative audience through Turning Point USA and partisan podcasting. Donald Trump's White House is closely intertwined with partisan podcasters who amplify and help shape the administration's agenda. The boundary between the MAGA movement and influencers is effectively nonexistent, with campus outreach functioning as both grassroots organizing and a mouthpiece for Trumpism. Vance hosted The Charlie Kirk Show, traveled to Utah to bring Kirk's coffin home after the assassination, and signaled a desire to inherit Kirk's organizational infrastructure and audience as his future political base. Kamala Harris reported feeling sidelined as vice president.
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