Andrew Kolvet laid out Turning Point’s hard edged punch list to win back young Americans, warning Steve Bannon that the youth vote will collapse without bold actions on immigration, housing, and the college cartel.
Watch the clip below.
This clip aired on WarRoom’s morning show on November 13, 2025. Transcript begins below (lightly edited for clarity; may contain minor errors).
STEVE BANNON (HOST): There’s been this tweet up, and Benny had it on yesterday with Chip Roy. We put it up yesterday. I talked to you about it. Walk us through. You got Mark Mitchell that’s breathing fire right now. You’ve got Brat, who’s everybody’s favorite uncle, who’s telling you what the practicality is. Walk me through those two. How do you see it? Where do you see the direction of this, in this action plan that you and Charlie came up with? Walk people through it because it’s starting to galvanize a lot of attention right now. If we’ve got to get some stuff, a punch list, let’s look at Charlie’s punch list. So take it from there, sir.
ANDREW KOLVET (GUEST): Yeah, absolutely. And thanks for having me, Steve, and for the kind words. And you’ve just been a tremendous ally in the fight all along the way. And Charlie always tuned in to your show. He was like straight into his veins. And so you’re a big part of this too, Steve. And listen, you’re right. We were laser focused on making sure that the gains that we had, the coalitions that we were building in 2024, did not go by the wayside in 2025.
We understood that the youth vote was not a permanent ushering in of a permanent new electorate. We had to keep earning that vote. And when we saw some of the foreign policy decisions, when we saw some of the Epstein stuff come out, we knew we were losing some of that trust that we had built. I mean, they put a flyer on Trump. It was a flyer vote. We’re going to give you a chance because the other thing’s not working. We see that.
But we understood it was always going to be Mangionism, Mamadanism versus MAGA, versus economic national populism driving forward with a rising tide lifts all boats as opposed to a zero sum game grievance politics that are offered by the left. And so we’re laser focused on how do we do this, how do we re inspire the youth to get a stake and get some skin in the game into the American dream, believe in this republic.
And so yeah, this was a punch list. It was started with mass deportations. We understood that we’re seeing our country get invaded. We understood that this is causing housing crisis, this is causing backup at emergency rooms. It’s a visible visceral thing that young people can see in their communities. They understand that the country they inherited all of a sudden is not for them anymore. That’s the message that it’s sending, that we don’t care that you are born here. This country’s for foreigners. Mass deportation also has crime implications basically.
Step number two, stop the H1B scam. I love what Mark Mitchell said. This is something young people experience when they go into the workforce. About 80 percent of these jobs in H1B are going to entry level, junior level type jobs. The exact jobs that we need to be able to ensure are reserved for American citizens. America is for Americans. And then when you do this H1B scam and you got 80 percent or 70 percent that’s going to go to Indians, another 10 to 15 percent to Chinese, you’re looking visibly at your country saying it’s no longer for me. And that is depressing on an existential level for young people, Steve.
Step number three, dramatically reduce legal immigration. We’ve got robotics. We’ve got AI that’s coming, automation that’s going to be wiping out a ton of these entry level jobs, analyst jobs, the first rung on the economic ladder for so many college grads, and you’ve got 1.2 million green cards being passed around like they’re candy based on a 1990 law that we don’t need anymore. This is antiquated. We do not need it. You might have said in 1990 there was a justification for it. I would argue with that. But right now there’s absolutely no justification.
Step four, end chain migration and the visa lottery. What good does this do our country? There’s absolutely no good that it does our country. These are not people that are brought here for merit. They’re not geniuses. There’s no actual rationale for these people. End it immediately.
Number five, build 10 million new homes for Americans. This is key. Mark Mitchell talks about we need visible evidence that we are putting young people first. We need visible, visible, visible evidence. We need big, hairy, bold, audacious ideas that we can go put President Trump, JD Vance, in front of a camera breaking ground behind them, seeing huge new homes that we’re going to, guess what, we’re going to make sure institutional buyers don’t come in and swoop up those homes. We’re going to make sure that foreign born immigrants, illegals, or foreign investors don’t get first dibs at those homes. These are going to be for first time homebuyers. Let’s make sure that they have priorities, Steve, in these 10 million new homes. Let’s break ground. Let’s do something big and bold.
And whether it’s writing off the first 50,000 dollars of the mortgage every year until they’re 35, whether it’s letting them write off their whole mortgage, I don’t know. Let’s talk about big ideas. Let’s make sure that we get young people into the housing market because that’s the first thing.
Number six, crush the college cartel. Steve, this is huge. So many of our college grads, they don’t learn the skills they need. They’ve been indoctrinated. And then when they get out, they’re in 250,000 dollars worth of debt. And what does that debt do? It pushes off family formation. It pushes off getting a mortgage. It pushes off those conservatizing life events. We call them the three Ms on the Charlie Kirk Show. That is marriage, mating, and mortgage. Marriage, mating, and mortgage. Even the Brookings Institute acknowledges that when young people do those three Ms, they become conservatives. They start voting the way we want them to.
And so this is an existential crisis with our young people. They don’t believe in the system. They don’t believe in the republic. And they need leaders that do bold things and put them first.
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