The coolest part of what I get to do is be around just the most awesome people on the planet, right?

Like just sitting back and watching Elon Musk and President Trump talk about consequential political issues.

Like, what am I doing here, right?

Like, I didn't go to college. I'm a kid from Chicago.

It really goes to show that this country still has meritocracy at its core.

And I think that is a testament to why this country is so great that if you prove

yourself, if you have the right work ethic, if you have a little grit and resolve, you can end up

around the kings of today. Charlie Kirk, founder of TPP USA, Medud, you've built an actually

enormous thing. Congratulations. Seriously amazing. Thank you, Ben. It's great to see you and thanks for being here. And yeah, it's been kind of a wild journey. You're one of the few people I could say. You were at the foundational levels. Oh, yeah. I mean, I remember 18-year-old Charlie Kirk going around the David Horwood Freedom Center at the breakers trying to meet donors. And I remember saying to every one of those donors, this guy's going to be ahead of the RNC.

And then you just basically built your own RNC. Yeah, you know, we kind of looked at the RNC and we said, maybe we could do something, you know, in our own likeness and image. But no, I mean, glory be to God, it's amazing. And this election cycle was a big test for us. And we were thrilled at the result. I have to say, it's actually incredible.

So there's a tape of you from Election Night when it was announced. a big test for us and we were thrilled at the result. I have to say, it's actually incredible.

So there's a tape of you from election night when it was announced that President Trump

had won and you got really emotional.

And I was moved by it because I know how much work you've put in over the last 10 years

just to get to this point and to be so influential in this election.

And listen, I mean, you were handed an enormous responsibility. And that's a super hard thing. I mean, they basically said, okay, why don't you just handle voter turnout? It's like, what in the world? So explain to me how you even build that sort of machine that leads to President Trump being reelected. Well, it was a couple of things. We had President Trump's back throughout the primary and the whole process. There weren't a lot of us that were kind of building this kind of machinery. And it turned out once we got to the general election, we must remember that the odds did not look great for his general election chances. I mean, from the law fair to just kind of the party was not completely yet behind him. And so we volunteered. We're like,

hey, you know, we know how to do this on college campuses. We want to do some voter turnout stuff.

And because of an FEC ruling that happened this last spring, you're allowed to coordinate with

presidential campaigns. It was an election ruling. Actually, Mark Elias sued the FECN1,

and he thought it would help the Democrats. And so we started working with a great campaign

teen, Susie Wiles, James Blair, and we said, hey, especially in Arizona, Wisconsin,

and Pennsylvania, some of these states who really have grassroots infrastructure, we believe

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