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Photo File: Founder and President Turning Point USA Charlie Kirk appears at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Oxon -Hill, Maryland, USA, February 28, 2019.
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Conservative political activist Charlie Kirk Perhaps it would be a home name in America, but when the news spread on Wednesday, many people outside the USA remained asking who it is.
Google trends Wednesday showed a spike in search of phrases Utah State University In Arem.
US president Donald Trump proclaimed the death of his friend and Eli in social media, saying It was filled with “grief and anger” for murder “patriot” KirkWhile the Republican Governor of Utah Spencer Cox called the murder as a “political murder.”
“I want to do this crystal understandable now, we will find you, we will try you, and we will be prosecuted to a greater extent of the law,” Cox said.
Thursday morning continued by rampant for the killer kirkAfter the law enforcement agencies released two initial suspects in the investigation.
CNBC has a short content of Charlie Kirk’s life and why it matters for the Republican Party and the US Conservative Movement.
Who was Charlie Kirk?
Charles James Kirk, born in 1993 in Illinois, showed early signs of his political preferences in high school if he voluntarily assist in the successful US Senate Republican Mark Kirk, to whom he had no relationship.
Later, Kirk continued to concentrate the Conservative Student Turning Group at the age of 18, which really created an activist in the republican circles.
The group became known for its popular rallies in school and colleges, attracting a large crowd with a large combination of rock music and festival vibrations with provocative right-wing rhetoric in the race, Islam, immigration and American identity.
US activist and commentator, US Charlie Kirk throws hats in the crowd shortly before he was shot at Utah University’s performances in Arem, Utah, USA, September 10, 2025.
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The ability of the group to inspect the conservative youth in America meant that Kirk’s fame grew in the Republican Party, and in 2019, Kirk started “Turning Point Action” – an official group of a propaganda group that supports conservative candidates, including Trump.
The US turning point was regarded as the main thing in the Trump’s Support Assembly after he lost the 2020 presidential election – which Kirk and his groups challenged. Later, social media helped to provide support for the youth in the 2024 election campaign, which provided its second mandate.
On Wednesday, Kirk was killed at one of the turning offices on the US campus during the “American Return Tour” at Utah -Vali University, which involved 3000 people, the FBI reports.
Kirk was married to Eric, a former winner of the Miss Arizona beauty contest, with whom he had two children. He scored large on social networks, and 8.7 million followers on Instagram and 5.6 million followers on X. He also presented the podcast show Charlie Kirk, who collected 8.2 million followers on Tiktok and 254.3 million likes on Thursday morning.
Building this audience to spread the message of political right in the era of reinforced cultural wars and divisions that made Kirk a home name. He often performed on television and right news, such as Fox News, taking part in the whimsical news debate.
Trump’s support was not one -sided street, and the Republican politician expressed his gratitude for Kirk at a rally in Washington the day before he was oath for a second term in January, saying to the audience: “Charlie Kirk here. And I want to thank Charlie. Charlie.”
On Wednesday, Trump reaffirmed his admiration for Kirk, calling it “great and even legendary” in a report of the social truth that announced the death of the activist.
“Nobody understood or had the heart of young people in the United States better than Charlie. He was loved and admired by all, especially I, and now he is no longer with us.”
Trump ordered the US flag across the United States to fly one and a half mast until Sunday evening.
