Turning Point USA members in shock and disbelief over Kirk’s deathpublished at 09:09 British Summer Time
Gabriela Pomeroy
Live reporter
Image source, Julia PierceJulia Pierce (right) with Charlie Kirk at an event in Dallas last year
Activists in the influential conservative activist
group founded by Charlie Kirk – Turning Point USA – are in a state of shock.
I’ve been speaking to Julia Pierce, a Turning Point member
for over ten years.
She says she is in “shock and disbelief,” adding there are “tears
pouring down my cheeks.”
With Charlie Kirk, Julia says “what you see is what you
get. He didn’t care if he was booed.”
She has attended many of Kirk’s events such as AmericaFest –
the group’s annual conference – and met him several times. “He was the most
friendly, kind, gentle, Christian person,” she says.
“It used to be that for young people it was cool to be
a Democrat. But he made it cool to be a Trump supporter and to wear the MAGA hat
and live your life with traditional family values.”
“It used to be nerdy and strait-laced to be a
Republican,” she continues, “but he made it fun to be a Republican
and now we are the rebels,” she says.
“Now we have all these college kids hysterically crying
about him,” Julia says. “And we are even more motivated to carry on Charlie
Kirk’s legacy.”