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ARTICLE VIEW: | |
Erika Kirk named CEO of Turning Point USA | |
By Michael Williams, CNN | |
Updated: | |
2:22 PM EDT, Thu September 18, 2025 | |
Source: CNN | |
Erika Kirk has been named CEO of Turning Point USA, taking over the | |
organization that her husband, Charlie Kirk, helped found and led until | |
his assassination last week. | |
The move was announced by the organization’s board in a post on X. | |
The post said Charlie Kirk had in prior discussions made known that | |
“this is what he wanted in the event of his death.” | |
“We will not surrender or kneel before evil,” board members said in | |
a statement. “We will carry on.” | |
Charlie Kirk co-founded Turning Point USA in 2012 and transformed it | |
into one of the most influential conservative organizations that was | |
credited with galvanizing youth toward Donald Trump’s MAGA movement. | |
In her first remarks since her husband’s assassination, Kirk said she | |
was committed to continuing her husband’s work and his legacy. | |
“To everyone listening tonight across America, the movement my | |
husband built will not die,” Kirk said in her Sept. 12 remarks. | |
“My husband’s mission will not end, not even for a moment,” she | |
said, vowing to continue the American Comeback Tour of college campuses | |
scheduled for this fall. | |
Born Erika Frantzve, Kirk, 36, was raised in Scottsdale, Arizona by her | |
mother after her parents divorced when she was a child. She studied | |
political science at Arizona State University and was briefly an NCAA | |
basketball player. She won the Miss Arizona USA pageant in 2012. | |
The Kirks were engaged in 2020 and married the next year. They shared | |
two young children. | |
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