By Neenah Payne
“Trump Dance” Takes Nation By Storm! shows the euphoria sweeping much of the nation after Trump’s victory – especially among top athletes and other young Americans. At his rallies, Trump often danced to the infectious Village People’s tune “YMCA”, a song that celebrates young men of various races.
Young Voters Helped Fuel Trump’s Win (video)
"Men ages 18 to 29 in particular were vital to the Republican’s comeback victory” shows that the Youth Vote (especially young men) was key to President-elect Donald Trump’s 2024 victory.
How Trump Made Stunning Gains Among Young Voters
CNN: Younger Harris Supporters More Likely To Sit Out Election
Trump made stunning gains among young voters
President-elect Donald Trump made significant gains among young voters in the election, walking away with 44% support of those under 30 years of age, according to exit polling. That’s up from 36% support in that same age group in 2020. It was a stunning result for Mr. Trump, 78, who if he fills out all four years of his coming term would become the oldest president on record. He was running against Vice President Kamala Harris, who is 18 years his junior and was hoping to become the first Generation X president, as well as the first woman.
Several factors played a role in Trump’s winning the support of GenZ and the Millennials, including:
1 - Youth Forums: Trump’s son Barron recommended that his father go on podcasts and other shows young Americans frequent. Perhaps the most significant was Trump’s 3-hour interview with Joe Rogan on October 25 which was viewed more than 33 million times on YouTube. The Joe Rogan Experience has approximately 11 million listeners per episode, surpassing many traditional media outlets in reach and influence.
2 - November 4 Appeal by Rogan and Musk: On November 4, Joe Rogan and Elon Musk urged his audience (which is largely young men) to vote the next day. Elon Musk Pleads "Vote Like Your Life Depends on It!" and Speaks on Why He Became Politically Active. Musk warned, “If we don’t elect Trump, I think we will lose democracy in this election in this country”.That may have made a significant difference in the outcome both because young men make up a large percentage of Rogan’s audience and because men typically vote at a lower rate than women.
Who’s listening to The Joe Rogan Experience? Men, mostly
It also skews rather young: some 56% of adult JRE listeners are aged 18-34 (compared to 28% of the general public), while 37% are aged 35-54 (vs. 34%), and just 7% are over-55 (vs. 38%).
Women are registered to vote in the U.S. at higher rates than men. In recent years, the number of women registered to vote in the U.S. has typically been about 10 million more than the number of men registered to vote. However, that gap declined to 7.4 million in 2022.
How gender gaps could tip the presidential race in 2024:
women tend to vote more frequently for Democratic candidates and men for Republican candidates. This year’s election puts the gender gap front and center for three reasons—one of the candidates could be the first woman president of the United States; the abortion issue has especially high salience for women and could increase their already high turnout; and the election in swing states is incredibly close.
Charlie Kirk’s Huge Rallies at 25 Colleges
In the video below, Charlie Kirk explains that when he interviewed a college student at a huge rally, she said Trump is “racist”. However, when Charlie asked her why she thought that, she couldn’t cite any examples of Trump’s “racism”. That allowed Charlie to suggest that her belief was based on what she had heard from the corporate media and that the media has been lying to her. That interview got 60 million views! Some people watched the videos as many as 10 times.
Charlie has been visiting college campuses for 12 years and would usually get about 100 people. He visited 25 college campuses this semester. At the first rally in Michigan in September, 2,000 people attended. However, the rally at the University of Georgia was attended by 5,000 people! Kirk registered people to vote at the rallies and provided MAGA hats.
Trump won the youth vote in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania by very narrow margins. Kirk points out that without that record movement of the youth vote, Trump would probably not have won! Kirk says, “The kids put Donald Trump back in the White House!”
How Trump Won, with Charlie Kirk, and Part Two of Megyn's Biggest Losers of the 2024 Election 11/8/24
Megyn Kelly is joined by Turning Point USA's Charlie Kirk to talk about his work helping Trump get elected in 2024, the success he had moving the needle with college students, how young men played a crucial role in Trump's election, Sunny Hostin claiming racism and sexism of the "uneducated" is why Trump won, the truth about how young people are shifting in Trump's direction, what the next Trump administration will bring for the Department of Education, and Megyn and Charlie get emotional while reflecting on Trump's victory while discussing the incredible challenges he had to overcome during this election from lawfare to assassination attempts, and more.
Elon Musk’s 15-Day Pennsylvania Campaign
Why Pennsylvania is the key to a Harris or Trump Electoral College victory shows how important Pennsylvania – a key swing state – was to the election.
With less than two months until Election Day, Pennsylvania has emerged as the keystone state in each party’s plan to win the White House. The Pennsylvania focus is so great that the firm AdImpact, which tracks political advertising purchasing, reports that both the Donald Trump and Kamala Harris campaigns are spending more money on political advertising in Pennsylvania than in any other swing state this cycle. Kamala Harris flew to Pittsburgh on Sept. 5 and remained in the state through the Sept. 10 presidential debate – which took place in, you guessed it, Pennsylvania.
Elon Musk campaigned in Pennsylvania for 15 days – giving out $1 million each day!
Elon Musk went all-in on Pennsylvania — and helped deliver the White House to Trump
Elon Musk, the world's richest man, took a frenzied and controversial gamble on the biggest swing state in the 2024 race, and it paid off. President-elect Donald Trump won Pennsylvania, and with it, another four years in the White House.
On July 13, Musk publicized his support for Trump on X, posting a video of the former president after he survived an assassination attempt in Butler County, Pennsylvania. Musk set up a war room of sorts in Pittsburgh and spent the final weeks of the race galavanting across the state. He urged Pennsylvania voters in apocalyptic terms to head to the polls, telling them in late October that the 2024 election would determine "the fate of Western civilization."
Musk spent more than $130 million on the election, much of it late in the game/ Musk's Keystone State tour de force began on October 5, when he attended his first campaign rally alongside Trump in Butler. In addition to appearing with Trump, Musk hosted his own events in Pennsylvania.
Between October 17 and October 20, he hosted four town halls in as many days across the state and hosted another one on October 26. It's too early to tell what impact Musk ultimately had in Pennsylvania. While the state flipped to Trump, so did other key states like Wisconsin and Michigan, where Musk did not campaign. But political operatives on the ground in Pennsylvania said Musk's presence certainly helped.
Musk Warns This Could Be Last Election!
In the video below, Musk explained the importance of Pennsylvania to the fate of both America and Western civilization. He explained that everything was on the line and went all out to help Trump win.
Musk even gave away $1 million a day to help register voters in Pennsylvania!
'This is the last election in US, if…': Elon Musk campaigns in Pennsylvania for Trump 10/18/24
Elon Musk held his first solo event in support of Donald Trump for president on Thursday, encouraging voters in the Philadelphia suburbs to register to cast their ballots and vote early, though some attendees shouted back, "Why?"…
The event was billed as a call to action to vote early in the crucial battleground state of Pennsylvania, where Trump and Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris are fiercely contesting the election. Some in the crowd questioned Musk's entreaties to vote early, reflecting the possibility that Republicans are still persuading their supporters to embrace early voting after Trump spent years demonizing the method.
Elon Musk warns Trump supporters: 'This will be the last election in America if you don't vote' 10/6/24
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and owner of social media platform X, appeared on stage with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump who returned on Saturday (October 5) to the rural Pennsylvania site where he was nearly assassinated. Trump called up on stage Musk, a powerful ally, as he rallied the large crowd in the critical battleground state one month before the Nov. 5 election.
It was Musk's first time at a Trump campaign event since he endorsed the former president after July 13, the date when Trump was grazed in the ear by a bullet. Musk literally jumped up on stage with his arms held high. "The true test of someone's character is how they behave under fire," Musk said, calling the election a "must-win situation" for Trump and urging the crowd to register to vote.
Growing Rejection of Woke Ideology
Vice President Kamala Harris stressed in the video below the importance of being “Woke, Woker, and Wokest”. However, Woke ideology (CRT, DEI, ESG) characterized men as “sexist” and White men as both sexist and “racist”. So, it’s not surprising that many American men (of various races) supported Trump.
Trump’s victory can be seen, in part, as a referendum on the Woke ideology that makes the correct use of pronouns and the “rights” of trans women to play in women’s sports and use their locker rooms and bathrooms more important than a secure border, safe cities, control of fentanyl, economic prosperity, and avoiding a nuclear WWIII.
Book: The Origins of Woke: Civil Rights Law, Corporate America, and the Triumph of Identity
Amazon Description
Richard Hanania has emerged as one of the most talked-about writers in the nation, and in this book, he puts forward a stunning new theory about the culture war that could turn our debates upside down. Richard Hanania has come out of nowhere to become one of the best-known writers in the nation in the last few years. In this book, he directs his attention to the culture war that has driven society apart and presents a stunning new theory about what is going on.
In a nation nearly-evenly split between conservatives and liberals, the left dominates nearly all major institutions, including universities, the government, and corporate America. Hanania argues that this is as much a legal requirement as it is an issue of one side triumphing in the marketplace of ideas. Culture has its own independent force, but the state has, since the 1960s, been putting its thumb on the scale.
This book answers many of the puzzling questions about modern society, such as:
• Why does more and more of life seem like a competition to see who is the most oppressed?
• Who is really behind the sudden proliferation of woke ideas?
• How did ideas that seem so intellectually bankrupt achieve hegemony over elite culture?
• Which laws and regulations have helped the left rise to power everywhere?
• How did workplaces come to be the main enforcers of political ideology?
• When and how did Pakistanis, Samoans, and Koreans all become the same "race" (AAPI)?
• Why did America become so obsessed with inequalities based on race but not religion?
For those angry about wokeness and what it has done to American institutions, this book offers concrete suggestions regarding policies that can move us back to being a country that emphasizes merit, individual liberty, and color-blind governance.
Neenah Payne writes for Activist Post
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