A video showing hundreds chanting ‘Charlie, Charlie’, in honour of the US right-wing political activist shot dead on September 10, at a Turning Point USA’s University of Minnesota event featuring Michael Knowles on Monday has now gone viral on social media.
Charlie Kirk, 31, was assassinated while addressing an audience on the campus of Utah Valley University (UVU) in Orem, Utah, United States. The outdoor event was the first stop of the season for the American Comeback Tour, a speaking and debate series planned by Turning Point USA, a conservative organization Kirk co-founded.
Over 2,000 people on Monday gathered at the University of Minnesota’s Northrop Auditorium for ‘The American Comeback Tour’.
🚨 HOLY CRAP! Turning Point USA’s University
of Minnesota event featuring @michaeljknowles just ERUPTED in cheers of “CHARLIE! CHARLIE!”
The venue is JAMPACKED with college kids.
A sleeping giant has been awakened. The left is spiraling. pic.twitter.com/gyX28PEHyo
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) September 23, 2025
Knowles, a conservative commentator and author, paid respects to Kirk.
Erika Kirk has been named CEO of Turning Point USA, taking over the organization that her husband, Charlie Kirk, helped found and led until his assassination last week, CNN reported.
The move was announced by the organization’s board in a post on X. The post said Charlie Kirk had in prior discussions made known that “this is what he wanted in the event of his death.” “We will not surrender or kneel before evil,” board members said in a statement. “We will carry on.”
Charlie Kirk co-founded Turning Point USA in 2012 and transformed it into one of the most influential conservative organizations that was credited with galvanizing youth toward Donald Trump’s MAGA movement.
In her first remarks since her husband’s assassination, Kirk said she was committed to continuing her husband’s work and his legacy. “To everyone listening tonight across America, the movement my husband built will not die,” Kirk said in her September 12 remarks. “My husband’s mission will not end, not even for a moment,” she said, vowing to continue the American Comeback Tour of college campuses scheduled for this fall.
The Kirks were engaged in 2020 and married the next year. They shared two young children.
With CNN Inputs
