Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, and other notable commentators are continuing the nationwide tour that the late Charlie Kirk started, with several Republican lawmakers set to make appearances.
Turning Point USA CEO Erika Kirk, Kirk’s widow, said her husband’s tour will continue after he was assassinated on Sept. 10. On Monday, the organization unveiled the lineup of speakers for its “This is the Turning Point” tour, which includes Carlson, Kelly, Daily Wire’s Michael Knowles, Glenn Beck, 2024 presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, and others.
Multiple Republican governors are also joining this tour, including Govs. Glenn Youngkin (R-VA) at Virginia Tech, Spencer Cox (R-UT) at Utah State University, Greg Gianforte (R-MT) at Montana State University, and Jeff Landry (R-LA) at Louisiana State University. During his visit, Cox will be joined by podcaster Alex Clark, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ), and Fox News contributor and former Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT).
In the days after Kirk’s murder, Knowles, Beck, Kelly, and Carlson guest-hosted The Charlie Kirk Show, where they all reflected on his legacy and impact.
Knowles is headlining the first stop at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities on Monday evening, a day after Kirk’s memorial in Glendale, Arizona. Knowles said on Monday that Kirk’s “enemies” believed they could “silence” Kirk and his movement, but “that will not happen.”
“I will appear tonight, and there will be an empty chair onstage. I will give a tribute to Charlie, and then we will open the floor to an open conversation. Charlie’s enemies will not have stopped that, and people who disagree can, like at all of his events, cut to the front of the line, and we will continue to have a healthy debate,” Knowles said Monday morning on Fox News’s Fox & Friends First.
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President Donald Trump called Kirk’s assassination an attack on the whole country, saying “the bullet was aimed at all of us.” The president made his remark while speaking at Kirk’s memorial, calling the Turning Point USA founder “a devoted husband, father, son, Christian, and patriot.”
Utah Valley University, where Kirk was speaking when he was killed, announced Monday that an external organization will conduct an independent review of campus security measures.