Conservative voices reflect on Charlie Kirk’s heritage after tragic death

Conservative leaders and commentators reflect on life, heritage and unchanged impact Charlie KirkRemembering as the founder of the US turn, a whole generation of young conservatives formed and left a long mark on the move.

Turning Point USA is an organization that started Kirk in 2012 with the mission “to define, educate and organize students to promote the principles of fiscal responsibility, free markets and limited government, according to Web group group.

Digital Fox News talked to conservative voices Rob SmithArin Veksler, Lily Kate and Amir Odem about the impact of Kirk on their lives and America.

“I basically owe all my career in the conservative movement and conservative media Charlie Kirk,” said Smith, a political commentator.

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“I started a lot of noise on social networks. And then I realized, connected with Charlie Kirk in Turning Point USA. And this … If my platform really increased much more, you know on social media on television and saying,” Smith said.

Smith attributes his career to Kirko.

“I wouldn’t do anything I was doing if it wasn’t for him. If he hadn’t seen anything in me,” he said.

Smith applauded Kirk for recognizing the need for different votes within the conservative movement. He contributed to the organization from 2019 to 2022 and called himself one of his “first participants”.

“I came out as a Conservative in 2018. It was an unconventional conservative, this black gay boy. I just like, you know, one of the first people who really did it.”

In June, Veksler, a conservative political commentator and a speaker at Turning Point USA “Young Women Summit”, applauded Kirka for efforts to make the college campus.

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“He is a man in a conservative movement who really took care of the next generation of America … And he was a man who decided not to give up college campus.”

Veksler continued: “Charlie Kirk was a man who never went out of the struggle, and we should not. So, it’s time standing for your values ​​to register voters at your school. The last thing you have to do is scared from your values, because that’s exactly the opposite that Charles showed us.”

Kate, a conservative influence and a former turn ambassador, said about Kirk: “He is an American original. He is a national treasure. And we were lucky to be near Charlie Kirk.”

Kate stopped in detail after the killing of Kirk, describing the spiritual “revival” she sees.

‘I saw the video for hundreds of thousands of people who are actually shown church. I got texts and DMS from people who say that from Charlie I opened my Bible for the first time in 10 years. For the first, I prayed to Jesus because Charlie told me. ”

“Charlie was really the leader of the movement, especially the leader of the youth movement. He wanted people to come together, join their hands, get out of the phones, stop scrolling, talking real conversations,” Kate said.

Kate said, “Charlie has always been heartfelt, always good. Many times I have seen he discussed personally and on the Internet, and he is very respected.”

Amir Odem who takes YouTube The show, said about Kirk, “He meant a lot to really promote people to use his voice effectively.”

In 2018, Odeme attended the Young Black Guide summit at an event held by Turning Point, where young black Americans were invited to the White House, and “then attended a conference headed by a bunch of black leaders, black entrepreneurs, black artists, black actors, and just heard.

Odeme said about the conservative movement that moves forward: “I just see it becomes louder. I see it becomes the only one, and I see it becomes, you know, just bigger than what it is now.”

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“We see record numbers for people signed to create fracture sections, in high school and at college campuses. We see more people will be vocal on the Internet. We see another massive outcome of people who leave people who leave on the leftsaid Odeme.

Kate said: “Now is the time to withstand the triple, four times the number of events we do personally to lead more talk to encourage more discussions, just transfer the torch he put for us.”

“There will never be Charlie Kirk,” Smith said. “So, you need to be thousands of mini -Cherry Kirk.”

“He was exactly the type of an American who should seek every young man, and the type of man who should try to get married,” Kate said.

On Thursday, Turning Point USA announced that the widow of Kirk Eric Kirk would be the CEO and Chairman of the Council. The group stated on X and Instagram: “Charlie expressed several executives that he wanted what he wanted in the event of death.”

Fox News’ Alba Cuebas-Fantauzzi contributed to this report.

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