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Charlie Kirk, who was promoted by a youthful conservative campus activist to a top podcaster, cultural warrior and ally of President Donald Trump, was shot and killed on Wednesday during one of his public appearances at a college in Utah. He was 31.

Kirk died, which made him a forceful political force – the right on a college campus, this time Utah Valley University. The event started a planned series of appearances by Kirk College from Colorado to Virginia called “The American Comback Tour”.

His shootout was an escalating number of attacks on political personalities, from the murder of a democratic state and her husband in Minnesota to Trump last summer that the nation conducted.

Trump announced Kirk’s death on his social media website.

Kirk embodied the combative, populist conservatism that the Republican party took over in the age of Trump. Kirk, an unfrited Christian conservative, who often made provocative statements about gender, breed and politics, started his organization Turning Point USA, who was aimed at younger people and addressed liberal-cubped college campus on which many GOP activists were nervous.

At the center of the legal process universe

Kirk, a backer from Trump during the first run of the President in 2016 and took the turning point from a constellation of well-financed conservative groups to the center of the right-hand center universe.

Turning Point’s political wing helped to make the efforts to make the votes for Trump’s 2024 campaign, and tried to energize dissatisfied conservatives that rarely vote. Trump won Arizona, the home state of Turning Point, with five percentage points after he had narrowly lost in 2020. The group is known for its events in which strobe lighting and pyrotechnics often occur. It demands more than 250,000 student members.

Trump praised Kirk on Wednesday, who started as an unofficial consultant during Trump’s campaign in 2016 and has recently become a confidant. “He was a very, very good friend of mine and he was an enormous person,” said Trump of New York Post.

Kirk showed an apocalyptic style in his popular podcast, the radio show and on the campaign path. During a performance with Trump in Georgia last autumn, he said that the Democrats were “for everything God hates”. Kirk called Trump vs. Kamala Harris the choice “a spiritual struggle”.

“This is a Christian state. I would like to see that it stays that way,” Kirk told the approximately 10,000 Georgians, who at one point in Kirk in a deafening vocals of “Christ is king! Christ is king!”

Influence of a recent generation of conservatives

Kirk was regularly represented on the College Campus. Last year he stood for the social media program “surrounded” against 20 liberal college students to defend his points of view, including abortion that is murder and should be illegal.

The author of several books, including one for the second change application, was a convincing supporter of weapons rights.

“I think it is worthwhile to have some costs for some weapons every year so that we can have the second change to protect our other rights given by God,” said Kirk during a turning point in Salt Lake City in 2023 and added that the deaths can be reduced by weapons, but will never be disappeared.

Admirers emphasized that he enjoyed the debate and the free exchange of ideas for all confrontational rhetoric of Kirk. “His entire project is based on the achievement of the gap and the use of language, not violence to tackle and solve the problems!” William Wolfe, Managing Director of the Center for Baptist management, published on X.

Kirk’s style was influential for a recent generation of conservatives. The Republican MP Anna Paulina Luna from Florida spoke on the Capitol steps and reflected Kirk’s influence on her political journey on Wednesday.

“I should go to the medical faculty. Charlie Kirk called me the day before my departure and recruited me as a National Hispanic Outreach Director for the organization,” said Luna. “I was with him with many of them and discussed these children, and this conversation has to happen. You can’t suppress that.”

Kirk was married to Podcaster Erika Frantzve. You have two little children.

Zeal for challenging liberals

Turning Point was founded in Suburban Chicago in 2012 by a then 18-year-old Kirk and William Montgomery, a tea party activist, to proselize on college campus for low taxes and restricted government. It was not an immediate success.

But Kirk’s zeal for the confrontation of liberals in science finally won an influential sentence of conservative financiers.

Despite the early concerns, Turning Point Trump was enthusiastic after winning the GOP nomination in 2016. Kirk served as a personal consultant for Donald Trump JR during the general election campaign.

Kirk was soon regularly on the cable television, where he leaned into the cultural wars and praised the President of the time. Trump and his son were equally real and often spoke at turning point conferences.

Kirk announced that he organized buses to travel to Washington on January 6, 2021 to support Trump, and later called the fifth change instead of answering questions from the subcommittee on January 6 on January 6th.

Also in 2021, when he climbed the criticism of the Black Lives Matt movement on the College Campus, Kirk George Floyd, the black man, whose 2020s murder of the Minneapoli’s hands triggered protests, the Trump’s last full year in office, a “radio”.

“If you just don’t confuse this state,” said Kirk at the event in Mankato, Minnesota. “It was built by wonderful Scandinavians, and it seems as if it is now intentionally destroyed.”

When the money went, Kirk bought a Spanish-style discount of $ 4.75 million in a gated Arizona Country Club. The Turning Point steered millions of dollars to Kirk and his employees’ contractors, and some Republicans were skeptical when it announced that it would attempt to emphasize occasional voters during Trump’s 2024 campaign from 2024.

But when the younger voters shifted to the right in 2024 and Trump achieved a five-point victory lead in Arizona, Kirk and his allies claimed in his view of a edged, cultural war-oriented conservatism.

Proponents of a recent Christian conservatism

Kirk’s Protestant Christian beliefs were intertwined with his political perspective, and he argued that there was no true separation of the church and the state.

He also referred to the seven mountain mandate, which represents seven areas in which Christians are supposed to lead – politics, religion, media, economy, family, education and art and entertainment.

In the foreword to a book that was written by a pastor and turning point, which is to be published next week, Kirk wrote: “In today’s America, Christian faithful are with a fearful and wide selection of dangers and threats. We are not from new false gods, but by returning from demons from a long time.”

Kirk argued for a recent conservatism, which campaigned for the freedom of speech, the challenge of Big Tech and the media and exceeded the Americans of the working class beyond the capital of the nation.

“We have to ask ourselves a question as a conservative movement: Will we return to the party of the Status quo ruling course?” He said in his speech, which opened the conservative political action conference in 2020.

“Or we will learn from what I call Maga doctrine?

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Thomas Beaumont in the Moines, Iowa, Joey Cappelletti, Brian Slodysko and Matt Brown in Washington and Hillel Italie in New York contributed to this report.

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