Erika Kirk, Charlie Kirk's widow, to take helm of Turning Point USA

Turning Point USA was founded by Kirk in 2012 when he was 18 and has since become a prominent political force. Along with its presence on hundreds of college and high school campuses, the organization hosts conferences, encourages youth organizing on conservative issues and produces various media such as the “The Charlie Kirk Show."

The group and Kirk have been closely aligned with the MAGA movement and are credited with helping mobilize support for President Donald Trump's 2024 presidential campaign.

Charlie Kirkand and his wife Erika Lane Frantzve on stage during the Turning Point USA Inaugural-Eve Ball at the Salamander Hotel on Jan. 19, 2025 in Washington, DC.

Charlie Kirkand and his wife Erika Lane Frantzve watch as The Village People perform on stage during the Turning Point USA Inaugural-Eve Ball at the Salamander Hotel on Jan. 19, 2025 in Washington, DC.

Erika Kirk, 36, vowed in a speech days after Charlie Kirk was killed by a gunshot wound that she would continue her husband’s work. She said that “the cries of this widow will echo around the world like a battle cry.”

It was her first public appearance since her husband was killed Sept. 10 while speaking with students at Utah Valley University days earlier.

“The evil-doers for my husband’s assassination have no idea what they have done,” she said in her address, posted to Turning Point USA's YouTube page.

Erika Kirk is slated to give keynote addresses at the public memorial service in Glendale, Arizona, on Sunday, Sept. 21, alongside Trump and Vice President JD Vance.

Old, dried up fried bleach blonde cunt.

Fuck her.

Looks like her audition worked

Ka-ching! Ka-ching!

What if this were some evil plot cooked up by Erika to get control of the company? It's very Knots Landing, and Erika does look like an 80s primetime soap villain

She does R5! And that wannabee Nolan Miller dress isn't helping.

I understand that, like the Veep, she's Roman Catholic. Does this matter at all to fundie-evangelicals?

Not much of a trad wife anymore, is she?

It's a good thing for the left. I thought her speech was uninspiring and it's clear Charlie did all the work while she raised the kids, so she lacks experience.

Better than getting a competent replacement.

[quote] Erika Kirk is slated to give keynote addresses at the public memorial service in Glendale, Arizona, on Sunday, Sept. 21, alongside Trump and Vice President JD Vance.

Damn! There's a big dog thing in my neighborhood that day -- I'll have to miss Kirk's memorial service (& associated inspiring speeches)!

Conservative women always have such horrible make up. She’s 36 but looks like a 60 year old drag queen in op photo

She has a fat face, and he had a pumpkin head. I’ll bet their kids are going to be unfortunate looking.

When school breaks in May or June, Erika (not Erica?) will choose to spend more time in church discussing her grieving tiny-faced, big-headed children.

It’s EriKKKa

It’ll sink in two years. Those young conservative guys don’t want it ruled by a woman.

It’s not going to work because she’s a woman. The core objective is to turn young white men into Republicans. Replacing her with a woman will be too “woke” for guys who hate women, especially in universities where women dominate. It goes against their whole mission.

“Now I want you ladies to be good patriots and stay at home for your husbands! Doesn’t that sound empowering?”

It's a dirty job, and I'M not gonna do it.

I'm hearing from the best people that Erika Kirk was an Epstein girl.

Get the hook!

A REAL D.E.I. hire.

Whore.

She has such a trashy look about her, like a rural Redneck woman's idea of what "classy" looks like.

He’s fine! He sends his love!

R23 I thought she was one of the Hogans.

It’s OK if she’s not a trad wife. God called her to serve.

R19, that wouldn't surprise me, but she seems like an Explore Talent, talent

All these Republicunts look the same; whorey and trashy. This twat gives Tammy Faye Baker vibes.

Born again bigoted Jesus grifters

They’re imposters!

I can’t wait for her to be pilloried as a slut when she finds a new man, they’ll all call him a cuck too because conservatives hate stepdads.

We'll see if she can replicate that je ne sais quoi Charlie had that held American youth so spellbound.

And she will embezzle money from it.

She does have a certain Eleanor Roosevelt quality

Fast forward until she gets caught stealing from the organization. She seems the type.

The college guys are just gonna love a seething screeching recent widow.

DON'T FUCK WITH ME FELLAS!!!!!

This ain't my first time at the rodeo.

Charlie was a joke. That's how I became aware of him. Him getting dunked on, his misshapen tiny face and giant gums with bird teeth. How is it getting rewritten that he was some kind of charasmatic leader? He just wasn't that crowd in Utah was 5x the size of anything he's gotten elsewhere

What was it that made him such a Utah "thing"?

They hate all the same people and have no problem running a grift while pretending to be morally superior and chosen by God?

Going with the spouse as a successor just because they are the spouse and people feel sympathetic often doesn't go well for an organization.

Erikavita! Erikavita!

Don’t cry for me, Cheetolini!

She looks like a scheming bitch, so this is working very well for her.

[quote]They hate all the same people and have no problem running a grift while pretending to be morally superior and chosen by God?

That is an excellent explanation.

Cunt

🎵 Who’s that lady….

Yes, she does give off Tammy Faye Baker Messner vibes, BUT the main difference is that Tammy Faye was actually pretty damn smart….Erika -not so much…

And Tammy Faye was liberal.

"Mrs. Kirk, we need to talk about your extensions budget ... "

"HAVE HIM ESCORTED OUT OF THE BUILDING!"

Let’s see her preach about how bad working women are.

Two men founded Turning Point USA: Charlie Kirk and Bill Montgomery. They capitalized on the Covid hysteria anti-vax bullshit. Montgomery died in July 2020 of... you guessed it, Covid.

Charlie Kirk famously said "“I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights." He died by gunshot.

What is Erika's key issue?

Another DEI hire.

She seems hellbent on vengeance so I'm sure there's a monkey's paw solution waiting to happen there, but most likely it will be her vanity and Mar a Lago's Dr Mengles of a plastic surgeon hamhanded lip, cheek and forehead fillers

Was Charlie Kirk a closeted fag?

I posted this on Erika's Casket Dance thread. Just as relevant and timely here. She is the WIDDER KIRK and she will not submit to any! Cuz lots o' cash at the end of Charlie's casket, like leprechauns leaping at the end of the rainbow for a pot of gold.

[QUOTE]She'll go on a 40-city tour preaching how women should stay home and look after their kids.

[QUOTE]Charlie's wife was a career woman who graduated from college (Charlie dropped out of community college). She majored in political science. Later she got a Juris Master degree. So she had political aspirations, and she definitely planned to be a career woman.

[QUOTE]But what I don’t like more is how she will be made so much more important in the coming years.

[QUOTE]The reason they followed Kirk in the first place was because he spoke their language, which included keeping women in the kitchen with no rights and voice of their own.

Yeah, they will come together for a brief while glued by the mutual outrage and legitimateshock and grief. And then will come the power struggle because there's no way she's giving up the cash cow. Positioning herself front and center to create MAGAt iconography is just the first step.

I'm not sure if the male leadership at TPUSA has quite caught on to what's going on with her, but they surely will not want to give up the reins to her. Fundamentaly, many of the people who create, run and staff these right wing organizations have a hard time getting along with people due to their personality disorders. Throw a profit motive into the mix and let the schisms begin. People will take sides.

I suspect they underestimate the Widder Kirk and her fortitude and she's probably more intelligent than many of the men out together.

[quote] Yeah, they will come together for a brief while glued by the mutual outrage and legitimateshock and grief. And then will come the power struggle because there's no way she's giving up the cash cow. Positioning herself front and center to create MAGAt iconography is just the first step.

I've fought worse monsters than the GOP...

Of course she is.

This gash is going to ride her dead-as-a-doornail, white supremacist, rotting corpse of a husband all the way to the bank. His death was the best thing that could have happened to this hag.

He isn't even buried yet and she's already set herself up as his successor. That seems cold and calculating for new widow. Shouldn't she be spending more time with her kids now that their Dad is gone?

She comes across as very unlikeable and pushy, and that, combined with the fact that she's a woman, is going to be a big problem for her with the Maga crowd. I don't think that this is going to end well.

How is it that he was/is worth a lot of money? Did people contribute to his "cause" like they did with Jim & Tammy Bakker? Did he sell leaflets or some such thing? I don't get how preaching his kind of BS translates into amassing a fortune. Guess I'm not much of a capitalist....

Oh, this thing will have crashed and burned within two years from now.

Charlie invited her in for a job interview and said, I'm not hiring you, I'm dating you and she tells it like it was a heartwarming story.

All we heard after he was killed was "WHAT ABOUT THOSE YOUNG CHILDREN???"

Well, what about them? Erika needs to practice what she preached and stay at home and raise those kids. They don't need to be raised by a Hispanic nanny, probably in the US on a work visa.

Not to be too woo-woo, but there is some dark energy around this woman. Not harming her but working for her.

It was a satanitc ritual because the freemasons worship feminism too and wanted a womanz leader instead.

people argue it was an inside job

Candace will love the conspiracy theories

Jesus Jugs takes the wheel!

R56, I agree on all of your points.

Well stated.

She should take Charlie's advice and raise her children. Her career will still be there after they're grown.

Cruel. How many of his videos have you watched? He always makes sense to me. No one should be killed for their viewpoint. Speaking your opinion can often work against a person too; so it should be allowed. Most times, when someone upsets people, it causes them to get off their butt and do something. So many bad guys say one thing but do the opposite. Im sure his speeches united people against his views. Him being shot and being made a martyr isn't good. But as I said, he often had very good answers for those woke college kids.

She’s really milking her 15 minutes.

R72, Nobody is suggesting he deserved to be shot. I felt a terrible sense of dread when I heard. The issue here is his wife's behavior and how she has made a spectacle of his death, fueling tension with her words and actions.

Now, a week after his death, we learn that she's taking over Turning Point, which I imagine is a significant job and responsibility. Her children don't seem to be a major priority to her right now.

It comes across as a power-hungry money grab.

r61, all these professional right wing twats like Ann Coulter, Milo Yiannopoulos, James O'Keefe, Nick Fuentes, Candace Owens, and the late Saint Charlie with no talent or visible means of support have oligarch sugar daddies. That's why they never seem to go away. Even if they flop big time they always get pushed out in public again to sing for their suppers.

R74 The children were only made for PR reasons. She was supposed to be the Eva Braun of Turning Point but now that her husband was killed, she has to take over the job and the nanny will take care of the children.

Their books and podcasts are heavily subsidized by reich wing billionaires R75. Like when sea hag Ann Coulter writes book after book like "LIBERALS WANT TO KILL YOU" and they immediately go to #1 on the NYT list. Bought in bulk by the Heritage Foundation and the like to give out as freebies when the rubes send in their donations. Most people aren't buying these books or listening to these podcasts.

r72 Typically he spoke over his opponents in any debate. When you analyze his answers, they are often riddled with inaccuracies, wrong facts, distortions of statistics, etc. Fast and authoritative-sounding delivery does NOT equal brilliant answer.. Critical thinking 101.

It's interesting that Charlie Kirk said repeatedly that a woman should be first of all a wife, a homemaker, and should prioritize raising her children. Interesting that his wife is FLINGING herself into a career with 2 very young children. Something tells me that she didn't listen to that part of his philosophy.

R7 has a good point. TPUSA is an evangelical grift machine. The whole point is to proselytize to college students to make them Christian. Charlie had a recent video talking about how his wife is a Catholic but how he can not believe in it fully (specifically Immaculate Conception, that Mary was born without sin). I doubt they were married in the Catholic sacrament of marriage. It reminds me of JD Vance who wants all of the accouterments of main-line Catholicism but will only convert when it suits their own needs. Now, we get random commentary on his faith as if he was a martyr. These people have no idea of the man's mind: he's a blank slate to put whatever signifier you want onto him, the ultimate fascist goal.

R78, don't forget heavily edited to the point where it's comical. Who falls for this shit? And yes, all I felt was dread when he got shot. I knew they'd make hay out of it. I didn't expect it to be a pile a thousand feet tall that they're about to set alight.

Which one of you scamps did this?

[quote]Erika Lane Frantzve, Charlie Kirk’s ex-wife, releases a statement about her ex-husband’s death. “About time! In all honesty, I couldn’t stand him. I’m ecstatic my children will not have to grow up with him as a father. Just redownloaded Tinder!”

[quote]SEE MY PUSSY

I guess homeschooling is over for the precious children.

And seeing that the children are one and three years old, the Kirks' statement about homeschooling the children was a big fat lie.

[quote] Not much of a trad wife anymore, is she?

Her succession must just be an interim thing. What happens if she marries again? I think she would be expected to marry and continue to breed. Does her husband take over?

I hope she meets and marries a Hindu and converts.

It’s cute that she thinks a Stepford Wife can allowed to pull this off.

R75 - She thinks she's some Evita-like figure, but in reality she's a hybrid of Eva Braun and Phyllis Schaffley.

[quote] I hope she meets and marries a Hindu and converts.

I hope she meets and marries a black WOMAN.

Now that would be fucking hilarious.

She's totally a lesbian, btw.

She's going to get suckered into some experimental neck lengthening surgery and end up a paraplegic. Here she is with Kimberly Guillfoyle

[quote] She's going to get suckered into some experimental neck lengthening surgery and end up a paraplegic. Here she is with Kimberly Guillfoyle

Erikunt the no-neck monster NEEDS neck lengthening.

SHE HAS NO NECK!!!

msm posed video of her failed beauty contestant bid. maga was furious. maga doesn't do facts. simply stating she lost a beauty contest sends magats into a meltdown

their facial features are squished into the center of their oversized faces. is that what the master race looks like?

[quote] I hope she meets and marries a Hindu and converts.

I'm available! And I like the Turning Point financial plan.

Very regrettably, Dinesh D'Souza identifies as a Christian. He attended Catholic schools as a child in India, and then has been attending Protestant churches since living in the US. Did I mention he cheated on his then-wife at a CHRISTIAN conference, lied and introduced her AS HIS WIFE, and then was fired by the Christian college he had been made president of when the truth came out? Or that he lies all the time? Or that he wouldn't recognize an authentic Christian life based upon the precepts of Jesus Christ as expressed in the Sermon on the Mount if it hit him in the head?

R61- she wants to keep the billionaire cash flow coming in. the koch’s and their ilk poured millions into turning point to persuade young people to cross over to the dark side.

selling books, and merch is imagine was only a small part of kirk’s revenue stream in comparison.

I'm sure America's thousands of alienated young men worried about their machismo will flock to her.

Did she bring a matching stuffed animal? Wtf is that outfit?

Think pink! Think pink when you're buying summer clothes!

Think pink! Think pink for that certain quelque chose!

r58 that really calls for music

I think I have just the thing

Damn. Martha Byrne thought she had a shot at this.

Watch out, Erika.