Donald Trump won the 2024 election -- and the popular vote -- last November by turning out Republican voters and building a more diverse coalition than other Republican presidential candidates in years past. He also improved his performance with younger voters, a demographic Democrats have long dominated. That was thanks in large part to outreach on social media platforms and in communities targeted with the help of prominent personalities like Charlie Kirk. "We crushed the youth vote, even Democrats acknowledge it," Kirk said at an appearance this year at the Cambridge Union in the United Kingdom. "Both young men and young women moved to the right dramatically." John Della Volpe, director of polling at Harvard Kennedy School's Institute of Politics, who has studied young voters, said Kirk

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