Founder and President of Turning Point USA, Host of "The Charlie Kirk Show" and author of the bestseller "The MAGA Doctrine"
Charlie Kirk is the Founder and President of Turning Point USA, a national student
movement dedicated to identifying, organizing, and empowering young people to promote
the principles of free markets and limited government. With representation on over 2,000
high school and college campuses nationwide and over 160 full-time staff, Turning Point
USA is the largest and fastest growing conservative youth activist organization in the
country. At just 26-years-old, Charlie has appeared on CNBC, Fox News and FOX
Business News over 600 times, is a columnist at Newsweek and The Hill, and was named
to the Forbes “30 under 30” list. Charlie was also the youngest speaker at the 2016
Republican National Convention and is the author of two books and his most recent title,
“The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future” is a #1 Best Seller. Charlie
is also the Chairman of Students for Trump, which aims to activate one million new college
voters on campuses in battleground states in the lead up to the 2020 presidential election.
In 2019, Charlie was granted an honorary doctorate from Liberty University citing his
exceptional leadership and energetic voice for conservatives. His social media reaches
over 100 million people per month and according to Axios, he is one of the "top 10 most
engaged" Twitter handles in the world, behind only President Trump among conservatives.
Charlie is the host of “The Charlie Kirk Show”—which regularly ranks among the top 15
news shows on Apple podcast charts—where Charlie delivers in-depth analysis of the
modern political and cultural landscape, mixing in philosophy and history with his
signature campus activism along with interviews of some of the most influential people of
our time.
Farage began his career in 1982 as a commodities trader at the London Metal Exchange and
ran his own metals brokerage firm. He left a successful career behind to go into politics after
the Conservative party signed the Maastricht Treaty, which advocated “ever closer union”
between European nations. He became a founder member of UKIP in 1993 and set about
campaigning for Britain’s EU withdrawal.
In 2014, under Farage’s leadership, UKIP came first in the United Kingdom with 4.5 million
votes and in doing so, became the first political party since 1906 to win a national election
that was not the Labour or Conservative parties. This successful result eventually forced the
Conservative party to hold a referendum on European Union membership.
In June 2016, Farage was a leading figure in the campaign to leave. This gained him the
name “Mr Brexit” by Republican Presidential candidate Donald J Trump, whom he
supported at a rally on the campaign trail. Nigel Farage was one of the very few that
predicted that Donald Trump would win the presidential elections and was the first foreign
politician to meet the newly elected President in Trump Tower just days after his historic
win. At times, he can often find himself a lone voice back in Britain defending Trump on the
airwaves.
With it seeming he had won the day, Nigel stepped back from frontline politics, providing
political analysis for Fox News in America and hosting The Nigel Farage show on British radio
station LBC.
In early 2019, he was forced back into Westminster politics in order to stop the Brexit
betrayal, founding his new ‘Brexit Party’ to win the May elections in just six weeks of
campaigning. This made Nigel the only man in British political history to win two national
elections with two different parties.
With Brexit secured under the new Conservative government that Nigel helped to power, it
finally looks as though 27 years of hard work has paid off. However, if the establishment
drop the ball, he stands ready to step into the breach once more.
Matt Schlapp is the Chairman of the American Conservative Union, the nation’s original grassroots conservative organization. During his five-year tenure as chairman, ACU has almost tripled in size, expanded CPAC to reach 25 million live viewers and 1 billion Twitter impressions at the most recent CPAC. ACU also hosts dozens of additional events, including Battleground CPACs in the US and international CPACs abroad.