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DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican - Charlie Kirk story.
Erika's part about Charlie finding the talent, even the 5% that didn't believe in themselves, and pushing them to their fullest potential made me cry so hard.
Because that one felt so personal.
I was on medical leave when I started loosely doing early voting data and @realJeremyCarl introduced me to him.
Imagine this. I was a low follower, deaf, nobody. By all rights, it should've ended right there.
Charlie, somehow, almost immediately saw something in me that nobody else did. And pushed me the entire election season. Even though he had his own number guys.
He asked me questions, statistics, demographics. I answered.
Then immediately he started pushing me for more. I did.
And he just built me up bit by bit ... dangling RTs, encouraging a little more each time. We got pretty deep that season because he wanted to know all the numbers. And when Election Day rolled around ... he just kind of assumed, you give me the numbers all evening.
I keep replaying these conversations and crying.
https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/1967043975933817062

DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican - Flashback: The left tried to kill my husband. They published the address of his distillery on a site plastered with a Molotov cocktail cursor.
Before that, he had never once shared a public political opinion. He wasn't that kind of man.
They targeted him for one reason only, because of me.
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