Conservative activist Charlie Kirk eased the crowd with a joke when he began to speak in Shepherdsville in late June.

"I travel the country — I go to college campuses so you don't have to," he said, drawing laughs from the audience, estimated at over 1,000 people, that had greeted him with a standing ovation . "I take the goofiest questions imaginable, and the new battleground for the future of our country is happening on college campuses."

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