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It's just after noon, and Charlie Kirk sits under a white tent speaking into a microphone at Utah Valley University. The words, 'The American Comeback Tour' and 'PROVE ME WRONG' are printed on the tent in the colours of the American flag.

He's in front of an audience of thousands, and somewhere among them, there's a line of people waiting to ask him a question. Many of them want to debate him — a spectacle that's gone viral online in recent years. He's a fast talker, and speaks with absolut

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