Senator Ernst says that Charlie Kirk assassinated young conservatives inspired

Joni Ernst, president of the Doge Senate Committee, could lead one of the most trendy caucus in the Congress – who attracted young conservatives to political debates – but nobody did the best than Charlie Kirk, she told Fox News Digital on Thursday.

Ernst’s daughter, a graduate of West Point, first announced the news of Kirk’s death during a hearing of the senatorial committee.

“I was actually sitting in a meeting of the Small Business Committee and my daughter sent me a text that Charlie had been shot,” recalls Ernst. “I was trying to pay attention to the hearing while obtaining updates from her on what was going on.”

His daughter, who had seen videos circulating online, said to him: “There is no way that Charlie was alive.” Ernst replied: “Pray, darling, because miracles occur. Unfortunately, this was not what we prayed for.”

The senator said Kirk’s message was deeply resonated with her family.

“They followed Charlie Kirk and his message, and they are still so excited that he is biblically founded, he believes in the Word of God, and he really attracted many young conservatives-people who felt that they had no voice, especially after the four years under the President Biden with all his awakening program,” she said.

Ernst, R -Iwa, said that his daughter and son-in-law admired Kirk’s desire to debate opponents directly. “It made them more comfortable to discuss difficult subjects with friends and colleagues,” she said.

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Senator Joni Ernst, Center, is flanked by Republicans, including Senator Mitch McConnell, R-ky., On the right. (Images Alex Wong / Getty)

“(Kirk was) really anchored and centered in the truth. So they appreciated this. They followed him on Instagram and various platforms.”

Ernst said that she and her family were also attracted to Kirk by her lack of apprehension to debate civilly anyone – and led them to be comfortable to discuss similar subjects with friends and colleagues.

“Unfortunately, the tragedy is as we thought, because it saw it take place with all the publications that were there.

“The reassurance I have for her and her husband is that her voice will continue to be there and people like her, they will also amplify it. So her mission will live.”

The work of Ernst, of Ernst, popularized simultaneously by Elon Musk, helped to bring young people to the conservative fold.

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The legislator noted that she had worked on Doge -type work before the term was born. After his first elections in the Senate, Ernst published a statement committing to making Washington “screaming” – in terms of reducing so -called pork barrel expenses.

“Before that, I was a listener of the county and then in the state Senate. I have always been engaged in the supervision of the budgets, but when I came to the Senate, I have my work ” Crier ”. It really did not take off until we had (Musk) and President Trump really promoted Doge. And Charlie Kirk was the same,” she said.

Before Kirk, the late animator of Radio Rush, Limbaugh, inspired a generation of so-called “Pointe” in the 1980s and 1990s-young conservatives who regularly passed in his Talk show Am and have credited him to shape their first political opinions.

“(Rush babies) simply illustrate how spirits are shaped, opinions are validated, and sometimes how long it can take,” said Limbaugh in 2006, expressing feelings that have echoed what was said of Kirk:

“I have always felt confident that what is built here will last a very long time. You could lose an election here and there, of course, but that kind of roots, they are deep and they will become even deeper.”

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While comparisons have been established between the political magnetism of Limbaugh and that of new faces like Kirk, Ernst said that the latter was connected even more with young conservatives than the deceased commentator.

“I love Rush, and no offense to Rush, but I think Charlie was even more so,” she said.

“He really captured this next generation and went to the place where they were – not only on radio or broadcast – but by actually meeting and meeting face to face with people who may have seen very differently from him, and be ready to take these slots and these arrows and most literally this last day.”

“I think it is difficult for young people to communicate face to face, as we have seen in many of its debates,” she added, citing how certain criticisms had trouble debating it because they were often busy on their phones or were not used to connecting one person to the other.

“I would say he is even more than Rush. And it’s so unhappy and tragic that his life was so short.”