"Driving the news: Turning Point USA named more than a dozen guest hosts for its campus tour after Kirk was killed at Utah Valley University. The tour often produces viral clashes with liberal attendees. Monday: The Daily Wire's Michael Knowles is hosting the first event at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. Wednesday: Megyn Kelly and Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-Va.) at Virginia Tech. Sept. 30: Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Gov. Spencer Cox (R-Utah) at Utah State University"
"Zoom out: Turning Point USA did not immediately respond to questions about event security. What they're saying: Erika Kirk, Charlie Kirk's widow and the new Turning Point USA CEO, and others have said his murder would serve as fuel for their activism. "His passion was my passion. And now his mission is my mission. Everything that Turning Point USA built through Charlie's vision and hard work, we will make ten times greater through the power of his memory," Erika Kirk said at a memorial service Sunday."
Turning Point USA scheduled more than a dozen guest hosts for a nationwide campus tour after Charlie Kirk was killed at Utah Valley University. The lineup includes Michael Knowles at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Megyn Kelly and Gov. Glenn Youngkin at Virginia Tech, Sen. Mike Lee and Gov. Spencer Cox at Utah State University on Sept. 30, Vivek Ramaswamy at Montana State University on Oct. 7, and Tucker Carlson at Indiana University Bloomington on Oct. 21. The tour has a history of producing viral clashes with liberal attendees. Turning Point USA did not immediately respond to questions about event security. Erika Kirk, Charlie Kirk's widow and the new Turning Point USA CEO, said his murder would serve as fuel for intensified activism and pledged to expand the organization's mission in his memory.
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