"Kirk personified the pugnacious, populist conservatism that has taken over the Republican Party in the age of Trump. He launched his organization, Turning Point USA, in 2012, targeting younger people and venturing onto liberal-leaning college campuses where many GOP activists were nervous to tread. A backer of Trump during the president's initial 2016 run, Kirk took Turning Point from one of a constellation of well-funded conservative groups to the center of the right-of-center universe."
"He was 31. Kirk died doing what made him a potent political force rallying the right on a college campus, this time Utah Valley University. His shooting is one of an escalating number of attacks on political figures, from the assassination of a Democratic state lawmaker and her husband in Minnesota to last summer's shooting of Trump, that have roiled the nation."
Charlie Kirk rose from a teenage conservative campus activist to a prominent podcaster, culture warrior and ally of President Donald Trump. He was shot and killed during a public appearance at Utah Valley University at age 31. The killing occurred during one of his trademark campus events and adds to a series of attacks on political figures that have unsettled the nation. Kirk founded Turning Point USA in 2012 to organize younger conservatives on college campuses and backed Trump in 2016. Turning Point became a central conservative group, its political arm aiding 2024 get-out-the-vote efforts and claiming over 250,000 student members.
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