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Wisconsin Young Republicans Are Energized by the 2024 RNC
Clip: Season 2300 Episode 2303 | 3m 42sVideo has Closed Captions
Younger Republican Party members seek to make their voices heard at the 2024 RNC.
Younger members of the Republican Party from around Wisconsin seek to make their voices heard and find leadership opportunities as they gathered at their 2024 national convention in Milwaukee.
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Wisconsin Young Republicans Are Energized by the 2024 RNC
Clip: Season 2300 Episode 2303 | 3m 42sVideo has Closed Captions
Younger members of the Republican Party from around Wisconsin seek to make their voices heard and find leadership opportunities as they gathered at their 2024 national convention in Milwaukee.
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>> Now that the convention is over, the mandate from Republicans to their delegates is to carry the momentum into the fall "Here& Now" Senior political reporter Zach Schultz has the story of one group trying to do just that, while changing the image of the Republican Party.
>> Thousands of volunteers are needed to make the Republican National Convention a success.
Most of those in red shirts have gray hair, but there are some young people getting their first taste of political organizing, and Republicans are hoping to keep them involved into the fall.
and they're going to be involved.
>> A lot of them, most of them are from Wisconsin.
They're going to be here.
They're going to be knocking on doors, and that's what we're going to do.
That's what we do best.
Kyle Schroeder is the chairman of the Wisconsin Young Republicans, a group focused on recruiting, training and electing young conservatives.
We are the young professional arm of the Republican Party of Wisconsin here in the state.
And that's where we fit in.
And we want to grow the conservative movement for young people because our message resonates directly with them.
created in 2017 as the party realized students involved in college Republican groups often didn't have a political home after graduation, people would get involved in college Republicans and kind of trail off and then come back to the GOP, and they're like 50s or 60s when they're upset about property taxes or something like that.
>> And that's a years, decades of lost engagement.
>> Nik Rettinger represents Mukwonago in the State Assembly and sits on the board of the National Young Republicans.
He says they're not content waiting for middle age to take office.
>> A lot of folks like to say, we're the leaders of tomorrow.
That's that's not the case.
We're leading the way today.
>> When I was at college, I was the president of the College Republicans at UW.
>> Whitewater John Beauchamp is an alternate delegate at the RNC and says without young Republicans, a lot of people his age might not feel comfortable going to party events.
>> Let's face it, a lot of the county parties have a very traditional way of running things, very traditional, structured that the median age of the individuals that are in the county parties tends to be a little older.
So the goal with the Young Republicans is to kind of provide a sense of more camaraderie amongst young Americans, young Wisconsinites.
party since I was very small.
>> Olivia Kurth comes from a politically active family and is working security at one of the delegate hotels.
During the convention.
just being the eyes and ears here.
college Republicans and young Republicans, and says the groups provide a safe space for young conservatives to speak their minds in younger groups, you kind of have to test the waters a little bit.
>> You're like, if I throw out sour real fast?
>> We have a lot of Illinois implants coming here in Wisconsin, and they moved to Milwaukee, or they moved to Madison and they're like, are There are.
It's the Young Republicans.
And if you're in that 20 to 30 year range, we're here.
the campaign trail this fall, and their experiences at the RNC will help them power through to November.
palpable in a way.
I feel like being a part of this and seeing how much energy and excitement people have for being here and for the party and everything, and there is nothing quite like being in that room and feeling that energy.
>> On the floor of the Republican National Convention.
So bringing that energy, bringing a boost back into our communities and into our other
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