The assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk is having a galvanizing effect on the conservative movement as both parties prepare for next year’s midterm elections.  In a sign of how young conservatives are already mobilizing, Turning Point USA, the organization Kirk co-founded and led, announced last week it had received 37,000 new chapter requests in the 48 hours following the shooting. 

While the midterms are just more than a year out, Republicans say the mobilization of young conservatives builds upon a trend of young voters increasingly voting Republican.  “The youth have taken this as sort of a shot against them,” said Matt Whitlock, a GOP strategist and former senior adviser to the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Kirk’s death has evoked comparisons with the two

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