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It's no overstatement to say that Charlie Kirk's powerful reach and influence among conservatives helped put President Donald Trump back in the White House.

Kirk, the MAGA world rock star and ally of Trump and the president's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., turned the extremely influential Turning Point USA youth organization that he co-founded at age 18 into a voter turnout machine for Trump in last year's presidential election.

"His mission was to bring young people into the political process, which he did better than anybody ever," the president said of his close friend and ally, in a video posted to social media hours after Kirk was assassinated on Wednesday.

Vice President JD Vance , who was also very close to Kirk,

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