Trump to address Turning Point crowd as GOP hopefuls battle in Arizona

Source: Roll Call

Posted April 16, 2026 at 1:21pm


President Donald Trump is slated to headline a Turning Point USA event Friday in Phoenix as several Arizona Republicans seek the state’s governorship and two competitive House seats in the upcoming midterm election. Trump’s remarks to a “Build the Red Wall” event at Dream City Church will connect him with young right-leaning voters, a key voting bloc with which he has lost ground since returning to office last year. A high turnout in November by younger conservatives could boost the GOP’s candidates as part of a broader push to retain control in Congress.

“Young voters, that’s where Trump is hurting the most. Turning Point is the largest consortium of younger voters out there,” said one Republican strategist, granted anonymity to be candid about the president’s slumping poll numbers. “They may not necessarily like what’s going on in Washington, D.C. but, deep down, they still stand by Trump.”. But there are signs of trouble around the economy and foreign entanglements. The “Yale Youth Poll,” conducted by Yale University from March 3-23, showed Trump losing ground with several groups of youthful voters.

Sixty-eight percent of voters ages 18-22 said they disapproved of Trump’s performance as president, along with 72 percent of respondents ages 23-29 and 75 percent of those ages 30-34, according to the poll. “Since the fall 2025 Yale Youth Poll, President Trump’s approval has decreased, particularly among young voters,” Yale analysts wrote in a summary of the poll. “In fact, Trump’s net approval has fallen among both men and women of every age bucket under 35 years old.”.

Trump will make the case that while he is not literally on the ballot, his agenda is on the ballot, “so you’ve got to get everyone else out to vote,’” the GOP strategist added. “His message is going be that if Republicans and young conservatives flip the keys back to the other guys, who put the economy in the ditch, everything is going to cost even more,” the strategist said. “Trump will say, ‘I understand you’re impatient, but I’m the one who’s going to be able to make things the closest to what you want.’”

Read more: https://rollcall.com/2026/04/16/trump-to-address-turning-point-crowd-as-gop-hopefuls-battle-in-arizona/

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I guess this is because of Vance's poor showing with tens of attendees?



His "message" will be NONE of that. He will veer off message to whine about the Pope, firing Powell, "activist judges" blocking his tariffs, ballroom, and efforts to round up, beat up, and kill "aliens" he's trying to deport, and then will brag about how Iran is completely obliterated.