"Six weeks after the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk in September, University of Mississippi junior Lesley Lachman was standing in a campus parking lot near her sorority, Pi Beta Phi, scanning the calendar on her phone. She had interviews coming up with PBS, a local radio station, and Fox & Friends, before which she needed to redo her nails."
"This was the most eventful week of her adult life, when she was set to introduce Kirk's widow, Erika, and Vice-President J. D. Vance onstage at the Sandy and John Black Pavilion in front of roughly 10,000 students. After Kirk was killed, TPUSA's leadership decided to keep alive the group's ongoing campus tour, which was to pass through Oxford in late October. It was rechristened the "This Is the Turning Point" tour and populated with conservative A-listers who would debate students in the take-all-comers manner"
Six weeks after Charlie Kirk's assassination, Lesley Lachman, a 20-year-old Ole Miss junior and TPUSA chapter president, prepared to host a large campus event and multiple media interviews. She focused on image and messaging, worrying about nail polish and instructing teammates to use brand-forward slogans. TPUSA decided to continue its planned campus tour, renaming it the "This Is the Turning Point" tour and inviting conservative luminaries to debate students. The Oxford stop was expected to draw around 10,000 attendees and to carry forward the combative, take-all-comers style associated with Kirk and his prominence among young MAGA supporters.
Read at Intelligencer
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]