Pro-Trump activists blame Charlie Kirk and Candace Owens for losing Kanye West

Pro-Trump activists are fuming after Kanye West’s announcement that he’s “distancing” himself from politics, with the blame falling on two right-wing personalities—Turning Point USA’s Charlie Kirk and Candace Owens—who fellow conservatives say used West to push their personal brands at the expense of the conservative movement.

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“They really over-grifted that situation,” said Lucian Wintrich, a former White House correspondent for Gateway Pundit.

Both Kirk, the founder of the campus conservative group, and Owens, Turning Point’s director of communications, saw their profiles skyrocket in the mainstream after West tweeted that he liked “the way Candace Owens thinks” in April.

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