House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., led a vigil at the Capitol on Monday night for slain conservative icon Charlie Kirk, saying “he would not want us to be overcome by despair and would want us to carry the message forward, to honor his memory, and to expand the legacy that he left behind.”
Kirk, 31, the co-founder and CEO of Turning Point USA, the nation’s largest conservative youth organization, was slain Wednesday during an event at Utah Valley University.
“Our friend Charlie did not pass away in a car accident,” Johnson said. “He was assassinated for standing for his political beliefs. And so, it’s for so many of us, it has felt as if the ground has been shaken. And it’s not just the people assembled here, of course. It involves students on university campuses around America, and the over 3,000 chapters of Turning Point that are on university college campuses and high school campuses around the country.”
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