Michael Knowles On Nicki Minaj At TPUSA: This Is What A Winning Coalition Looks Like
J.D. Vance, Nicki Minaj, and Michael Knowles are ready to shepherd conservatives toward a new era of winning.
No one expected Nicki Minaj of all people to be the talk of the town after Turning Point USA's AmFest this weekend, but the rap star has done just that with her powerful showing at this year's event.
Minaj shared the stage with Erika Kirk, the widow of TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk, and delivered several talking points, including everyone being proud of their heritage – even if you're white – and pushing back on the persecution of Christians in America and abroad.
The whole thing was incredibly powerful and very surprising coming from Minaj, whose profession is dominated by leftist ideologies.
Her time on stage caught the eyes and ears of a lot of folks on the right, including Michael Knowles, host of The Michael Knowles Show Host.
Knowles has been on the Minaj hype train for a while now, so it's no surprise he's extolling her performance at AmFest.
After a weekend that was dominated by a lot of infighting on the right, Knowles remarked that it was refreshing to see Minaj's call for unity and echoed her statements for a broader conservative movement.
"That seems to me a winning coalition," Knowles said.
"Winning" is the key word here, as much of AmFest was consumed by debates over gatekeeping and ideological purity, Minaj’s time on stage highlighted what Knowles argues is the actual objective of politics: to win.
"Politics is not debate club," Knowles reminded his listeners, "You have to win."
Knowles also pointed out that Minaj's talking points aligned perfectly with vice president J.D. Vance's, further signifying a sign of unity on the right.
"The points that Nicki Minaj hit were the same points from the vice president’s speech," Knowles proclaimed.
Seeing two people from vastly different backgrounds, like Minaj and Vance, align on political and religious issues shows there is hope for unity on the right and reinforces the notion that this is a populist movement.
As Knowles suggests, Minaj didn't hijack the message this weekend, she just reinforced it in a way very few political commentators could.
The irony of all of this is that, after days of conservative media figures bickering with one another, it was Nicki Minaj who showed what a winning and unified front actually looks like.