She told a crowd Thursday that “we are going to get my husband’s friend JD Vance elected for ’28 in the most resounding way possible.”
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JD Vance is the man.
Erika, Charlie Kirk’s widow, is throwing the considerable weight of the Turning Point USA organization to back Vice-President Vance for President in 2028, if he succeeds in nabbing the presidential nomination. She also wants to make sure the GOP keeps the control of Congress next year in what many consider will be of historic importance.
“We are going to get my husband’s friend JD Vance elected for ’28 in the most resounding way possible,” Erika Kirk said Thursday, during an AmericaFest gathering in Phoenix, according to Newsmax.
Kirk told the Turning Point USA crowd that the group is “mission-focused” to make sure Republicans maintain control of Congress next year and that Vice President JD Vance is elected to succeed President Donald Trump “in the most resounding way possible” in 2028.
Due to an iPad malfunction and her written remarks wiped out, Kirk ad-libbed while underscoring that the movement Charlie Kirk built will move ahead with reinvigorated force.
NEW: Erika Kirk says her mission is to get JD Vance elected as president in 2028:
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“We are going to get my husband’s friend JD Vance elected for 48 in the most resounding way possible.”
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Still, Kirk reminded the crowd that the moment for conservatives had come “full circle,” telling them that her husband had given his life for the cause. Nevertheless, she laid out an uncompromising political road map that mixes the grassroots activism Turning Point is known for with a telling electoral crusade.
“We are locked in and mission-focused for both 2026 and 2028,” she told the crowd, describing a strategy of “investing in states and not just in races” and building a “red wall” in key battlegrounds including Arizona, Nevada, and New Hampshire.
The Hill also reported Erika Kirk’s endorsement as it noted the already-early jockeying around the post-Trump GOP field. Other media similarly described her remarks as a formal early boost for Vance from one of the conservative movement’s most influential youth organizations.
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