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‘The movement my husband built will not die’: Charlie Kirk’s widow vows to continue slain activist’s work
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Charlie Kirk’s widow fought back tears as she broke her silence two days after the assassination of her husband, and she vowed to continue the right-wing movement he built.
Erika Kirk spoke publicly for the first time since Kirk’s killing, standing beside the empty chair where her husband would broadcast his show.
Standing at a podium with an image of Kirk in Phoenix, Arizona, her address was streamed across the platforms of the conservative group Turning Point USA, founded by the MAGA influencer.
“The movement my husband built will not die,” she vowed. “It won’t. I refuse to let that happen. It will not die.”
“I’ll make Turning Point the biggest thing this nation has ever seen,” Erika Kirk said, adding that the organization’s “American Comeback Tour” would continue this fall despite Kirk’s assassination.
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Turning Point’s annual conference, AmericaFest, would also go ahead in December, according to Kirk’s widow.
“It will be greater than ever,” she said.
The mom, who has two young children with Kirk, said that their three-year-old daughter asked, “Where’s daddy?” when she arrived home Thursday evening after escorting her husband’s casket back to Phoenix with Vice President JD Vance and Second Lady Usha Vance on Air Force Two.
“I said, ‘Baby, daddy loves you so much,’” she told their daughter. “‘Don’t you worry. He’s on a work trip with Jesus so he can afford your blueberry budget.’”
She became visibly emotional when she thanked President Donald Trump for his support.
“I want to thank President Trump and his incredible family,” said Erika Kirk. “Mr President, my husband loved you, and he knew that you loved him too.”
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More than 145,000 people tuned in to watch the livestream on YouTube.
The appearance comes as suspect Tyler Robinson, 22, of Utah, is now in custody and expected to appear virtually in court Tuesday.
Kirk met his wife, a fellow evangelical Christian, in New York City in 2018.
They were engaged the following December and married in May 2021 in her native Scottsdale, Arizona.
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