Charlie Kirk: “We turned that red MAGA hat from a symbol that everybody was…”

“I said, there's something profound happening in this country. There's something that is deep, that is larger than what the media is covering. And We turned that red MAGA hat from a symbol that everybody was afraid to wear back in 2016, where now in 2024, we turned that into a symbol of hope, into a symbol of optimism, of patriotism and taking back our country. Back in November, when we rose up, younger voters saw President Trump as a lifeline. President Donald Trump represented for them a way to try to get everybody's attention that things were not all right for this generation.” (02:15–02:32)

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