Charlie Kirk’s Killing Galvanizes Young Conservatives in Utah

College students inspired by Kirk’s public debates reflected on his impact and said it would propel their movement.
Charlie Kirk’s Killing Galvanizes Young Conservatives in Utah
Arizonans mourn Turning Point USA Founder Charlie Kirk outside of the Turning Point USA headquarters in Phoenix, Ariz., on Sept. 12, 2025. Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images
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For many young conservatives, Charlie Kirk was a political first love. In the rising conservative star’s public events at college campuses—where he cheerily entertained questions, sometimes hostile ones, from audience members of all political persuasions—they saw a hopeful rejoinder to the rancor of campus politics and to political isolation.

The Sept. 10 assassination of Kirk at just such an event in Utah is not deterring them, but rather galvanizing a generation to continue in his footsteps, some told The Epoch Times.

Beige Luciano-Adams
Beige Luciano-Adams
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