The Washington Examiner‘s Joe Concha commended Turning Point USA CEO Erika Kirk for her three months of leadership amid the “moral rot” being shared online.
Kirk is continuing the work of her late husband, Charlie Kirk, the co-founder of TPUSA, after he was shot and killed during a Utah college event in September. Concha said he considers the assassination “the top story” of the year and “one of the more disgusting stories that we’ve ever had to cover in our lifetime,” citing social media users on sites like BlueSky celebrating the incident.
Concha also predicted that these celebrations will make political violence in the nation worse “before it gets better.”
“But here’s the good news, as you said: not just a couple of new chapters have been requested around the country for Turning Point USA. We’re talking more than 130,000 since Charlie’s death, and what it shows is that this movement by TPUSA is only getting bigger and stronger, and whatever goal of silencing Charlie was, well, it ain’t working,” Concha said on Fox News’s The Faulkner Focus, guest-hosted by Julie Banderas.
“He [Charlie] started this movement 13 years ago, and it’s only going to get bigger and larger, and Erika Kirk, God bless her because you’re a parent of children, I’m a parent of children, I couldn’t imagine her having to pick herself up and raise these children while mourning her husband,” Concha said on Monday.
“Just an incredible, incredible woman, and she prays for the people that want her dead. That’s the most amazing part,” he added.
Concha said Kirk would not be blamed if she decided to take several months off after her husband’s death. He noted how some media personalities have criticized her for appearing “on television too much.”
“No, if this is the way she will get through it, by building what Charlie started, good for her,” Concha said.
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TPUSA recently held its annual AmericaFest from Dec. 18 through Dec. 21, during which Kirk endorsed Vice President JD Vance as the Republican Party’s 2028 presidential nominee. She also said TPUSA would work to ensure President Donald Trump “has Congress for all four years” of his presidency.
The Washington Examiner‘s Ross O’Keefe previewed how TPUSA will seek to win over young women voters ahead of the 2028 election, citing how the organization did “a good job” winning young male voters in 2024. He added that Vance, should he be the GOP’s 2028 nominee, would be “a very tough opponent” if he manages to win over some support from young women.