Beyond Trump, young Texas conservatives weigh a harder-right future

Channel 4 News visits a Trump shrine, a university game day and James Fishback's campus tour to examine competing visions of Republican politics.

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Why this story? One of the most watched videos since yesterday, with 171,366 views.

Young voters ditched Trump. What's next could be more extreme

At Benjamin Shrader's home, Trump memorabilia shares space with weapons and conservative icons. The Austin Young Republicans chairman remains devoted to the president, but Channel 4 News reporter Kizan Moodley's question reaches beyond that loyalty: what happens to the movement after Trump?

The new FourSight report drew roughly 170,000 views in its first seven hours. Its central distinction is that young voters turning away from Trump does not necessarily mean young conservatives are becoming more moderate.

At Texas A&M on game day, Moodley hears frustration about the economy, international conflicts and promises left unfulfilled. "I don't think Trump is doing what the people voted him to do," one student says. RJ Matos, of Texas College Republicans, describes divisions between loyalists, disillusioned conservatives and those opposed to Trump. Polling and election graphics place those interviews within the youth-vote shift that Channel 4 reports helped Democrats win control of Congress.

James Fishback offers a different direction. The unsuccessful Florida Republican gubernatorial primary candidate is drawing campus audiences with an America First message centred on tougher immigration and trade positions. "American jobs should be for Americans, not foreigners, period, end of story," he tells an audience.

Moodley presses Fishback about his rhetoric and the influence of far-right commentator Nick Fuentes. Researcher Jared Holt then examines how online radicalisation can reach Republican staff and student organisations. These are competing possibilities, not a settled answer to who will inherit Trump's support.

Shrader's own explanation is that Trump has "shifted the Overton window", changing what politics can accommodate. Later, he hosts a democratic socialist and a libertarian debating in an Austin bar, taking the report from personal devotion to an argument about the movement's direction.

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