Washington — Vice President JD Vance is internet hosting “The Charlie Kirk Show” Monday after Kirk was shot and killed final week at Utah Valley College.
Vance introduced Sunday in a submit on X that he had the “honor of hosting the Charlie Kirk Show” to “pay tribute to my friend.” Talking from his workplace within the White Home advanced Monday, Vance stated he was “filling in for somebody who cannot be filled in for” as he kicked off the present.
“But I’m going to try to do my best,” Vance stated.
Kirk, a conservative activist, was assassinated final week throughout a college occasion hosted by his group, Turning Level USA, in Orem, Utah. The 31-year-old was near Vance, together with President Trump and his household.
After his loss of life, Kirk’s physique was flown on the vp’s airplane, Air Pressure Two, to Kirk’s house state of Arizona. Vance canceled a deliberate journey to New York to mark 24 years because the Sept. 11, 2001, assault to fly to Utah to retrieve Kirk’s physique. Vance stated Monday that he was honored to have the ability to “take Charlie’s remains from Utah to Arizona.”
Vance has described his longtime friendship with Kirk, who was additionally a key ally in his political rise. Vance stated in a submit on X after Kirk’s loss of life that the slain conservative activist was one of many first folks he known as when he thought of operating for Senate in 2021, and he stated Kirk advocated for him to turn out to be the vice presidential nominee “both in public and private.”
The vp described Kirk as a “true friend.” On Monday, Vance known as Kirk “the smartest political operative I ever met,” saying “I owe so much to Charlie.”
Charlie Kirk moderates a dialog with Vice President JD Vance throughout Turning Level Motion’s Chase the Vote marketing campaign occasion at Technology Church in Mesa, Arizona, on Sept. 4, 2024.
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Kirk’s youth turnout operation has additionally been credited with serving to Mr. Trump’s 2024 election bid, whereas Kirk himself was identified to have influenced among the Trump administration’s personnel selections. Vance stated a lot of “the success we’ve had in this administration traces directly to Charlie’s ability to organize and convene,” including that Kirk “didn’t just help us win in 2024, he helped us staff the entire government.”
Andrew Kolvet, the manager producer of “The Charlie Kirk Show,” stated on CNN Monday that Vance’s internet hosting of the present “came about because he asked if he could do it.”
“Charlie and JD were friends. They were actual friends,” Kolvet stated, including that “a lot of the people that are running the federal government are personal friends of Charlie’s and they were in the trenches together, the campaign, and they’ve known each other for years.”
The president introduced final week that he would award Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously. A memorial service for Kirk is about to be held on Sept. 21 in Arizona.
Kirk’s widow, Erika Kirk, stated in her first public remarks since his loss of life that “the movement my husband built will not die,” noting that “the radio and podcast show that he was so proud of will go on.”
“If you thought that my husband’s mission was powerful before, you have no idea,” she stated.
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