Vance joins Erika Kirk at University of Mississippi for Turning Point USA event
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🗓️ 29 October 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Following Charlie Kirk's killing, conservative activists have stepped in to fill the void at his organization, Turning Point USA, and complete his tour of college campuses while building on the movement he led. |
| 0:12.2 | His widow, Erica Kirk, and Vice President J.D. Vance, are scheduled to speak tonight at the University of Mississippi, where our White House correspondent, Liz Landers, is now. |
| 0:21.8 | So, Liz, what are we expecting from the vice president tonight at Ole Miss? |
| 0:26.9 | Vance is joining here at Ole Miss's campus in Oxford, Mississippi today for this event. |
| 0:32.9 | And Erica Kirk, after Charlie Kirk was killed in September, said that she wanted to continue her husband's |
| 0:39.6 | work of these kinds of high school and college campus events. This is the lifeblood of Turning |
| 0:45.0 | Point USA, reaching young people, teaching them, according to TPUSA, about faith, freedom, family. |
| 0:53.1 | She will be here tonight joining the vice president. We are |
| 0:55.8 | actually expecting him to take questions from the audience, like Charlie Kirk was doing the day |
| 1:01.7 | that he was assassinated at Utah Valley University in September. And Liz, as you say, I know |
| 1:07.5 | you've been speaking with students there all day. What have they been telling you? |
| 1:21.9 | Well, one young woman that we spoke with yesterday, we came in to attend the Turning Point USA meeting, their prep meeting that they did last night and talked with some of the attendees afterwards. |
| 1:28.4 | One young woman telling me that Kirk's assassination changed how she thought about politics. |
| 1:32.3 | Before Charlie Kirk's assassination, I wasn't in Turning Point, USA. |
| 1:34.5 | Now, like, I've joined as a member. |
| 1:41.1 | And, I mean, I think it really puts things into perspective about how divisive things have become in our country and how important it is for people to like get involved and um just |
| 1:45.7 | be proud of what they believe in mary kate was one of several young women that we spoke with |
| 1:51.7 | on campus here we're not seeing the gender divide that is playing out some in national polling |
| 1:57.7 | uh there are just as many conservative women if if not more, women in some of these |
| 2:02.8 | meetings that we've seen that TPUSA is doing and the organizing that we're seeing here on |
| 2:07.4 | campus as there are young men. We spoke with one of the young men who's involved in TPUSA here |
| 2:13.3 | on campus, Sean. He's from this area. He said he grew up with liberal parents, but since |
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