A group of elected Republicans and outstanding conservatives are stepping in to function featured company on the nationwide college tour that slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk was launched into earlier than his assassination at an occasion in Utah earlier this month.
The listing of outstanding audio system contains Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, Utah Sen. Mike Lee, Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte, and Ohio GOP gubernatorial nominee Vivek Ramaswamy, together with influential media figures corresponding to Megyn Kelly, Tucker Carlson, and Glenn Beck.
Turning Point USA, the conservative youth community that Kirk based in 2012, announced the slate of audio system on Monday, quoting on its website Kirk’s spouse, Erika, who declared that “our campus tour this fall will continue” regardless of the tragedy.
The group introduced a complete of 11 campus dates over the following two months, preserving seven stops initially deliberate earlier than Kirk’s dying, and including 4 extra occasions in Virginia, Oklahoma, Alabama, and California.
In the wake of Kirk’s dying, Erika Kirk has been named CEO of TPUSA. Speaking at a memorial in Arizona on Sunday, she vowed to take up her late husband’s mantle, saying that the world “needs a group that will point young people away from the path of misery and sin.”
“I promise you today, every part of our work will become greater,” she stated. Hours after she spoke, she despatched a fundraising electronic mail expressing her grief and asking recipients to “carry the torch” her husband lit by donating to Turning Point USA.