Turning Point Supporters Gather in Phoenix to Honor Charlie Kirk's Legacy and Message

[00:06] Hi, I'm at Turning Point headquarters in

[00:09] Phoenix, Arizona. I'm here with Dylan.

[00:11] Dylan, what did Charlie mean to you?

[00:14] Uh, he was just such a good messenger

[00:16] and all the things that he just believed

[00:18] in and would like preach and just such a

[00:21] good person. Charlie meant God, family,

[00:25] um, political rest, the right thing, and

[00:30] he believed in marriage, and he believed

[00:32] in he just believed in happiness and

[00:36] holiness and the right thing, and that's

[00:39] it. And we came from Georgia.

[00:43] We watched a real that Charlie said,

[00:47] "Before you get married, take a really

[00:49] long road trip because you will figure

[00:51] out what you don't and don't like about

[00:53] each other." And we came from Georgia 27

[00:57] hours. I think Mrs. Kirk is going to

[00:59] follow through and even more. I think

[01:03] she's the perfect person to represent

[01:05] him and I think we're all going to

[01:07] follow the right way. I don't think we

[01:10] will be the ones reacting with violence.

[01:13] I think violence will come and will

[01:15] continue to come. I think it's going to

[01:17] be a struggle for all of us to not bear

[01:19] our arms.

[01:21] I'm here with Jake from Delaware. He's

[01:23] come all the way to Phoenix to pay

[01:24] tribute to Charlie. What did he mean to

[01:26] you?

[01:27] Charlie is the reason I am who I am

[01:29] today. I mean, I've been a part of

[01:31] Turningpoint USA for six years, and I've

[01:33] always been a conservative, but it if it

[01:36] wasn't for Turning Point USA and what he

[01:38] built, I would have never I would have

[01:40] never had the courage to speak out

[01:41] boldly about my views. He really brought

[01:45] out a side in me that I never even knew

[01:46] I had.

[01:47] And did you do that at school on a

[01:50] university campuses?

[01:51] Yeah, I I ran the chapter at Ryder

[01:53] University in New Jersey for two and a

[01:56] half years. And um I've before that I

[01:59] was just a member for the first year and

[02:01] a half of college and I'm still a part

[02:02] of turning point today as member of the

[02:04] hype squad for national events and a

[02:07] member of the alumni association board.

[02:09] And what was the biggest values that

[02:12] Charlie espoused in your eyes?

[02:14] His faith um his pro-life views his

[02:18] defense of the of American values in the

[02:20] US Constitution.

[02:22] He he really was um he he was not afraid

[02:26] to go against the the woke political

[02:29] culture and cancel culture and I think

[02:32] he gave he gave that um courage to

[02:34] everyone that was a part of Turning

[02:35] Point USA and everyone that was a member

[02:38] of their chapter

[02:41] with Rose and Cody all the way from San

[02:43] Diego. Rose, what did Charlie mean to

[02:46] you?

[02:47] I don't think that you can just easily

[02:49] put it into words. It was spiritual. It

[02:52] was emotional. It just encompasses a lot

[02:55] of deep rooted feelings and he just

[02:58] spoke the truth and I praise God every

[03:01] day that there was one person who did

[03:02] that for everybody who didn't speak.

[03:05] And how do you see the country changing

[03:08] in the aftermath of this?

[03:10] I see the country changing because I

[03:12] think a lot of people are going to pick

[03:13] up the pieces from different movements.

[03:16] um they're going to see the fact that

[03:18] what Charlie represented stood for,

[03:20] especially when I was talking to the

[03:21] younger generation of universities.

[03:23] There was a lot of ugliness in the

[03:25] aftermath of his murder. Have you seen

[03:28] that? Have you seen people celebrating

[03:30] or making excuses for what happened?

[03:34] Um I think with the whole Jimmy Kimmel

[03:36] thing that they're trying to make him a

[03:37] martyr on the left in the aftermath of

[03:40] what happened with Charlie and it's not

[03:42] comparable. But I think in the main the

[03:44] main thing is that I think that the

[03:45] country is starting to wake up and

[03:47] people are starting to see the truth and

[03:48] we can see what when things like this

[03:50] happen how we are responding to it with

[03:53] vigils and prayer versus people riding

[03:57] in the streets and burning places down

[03:59] and I think that speaks volumes.

[04:01] I'm here with Boston from Kentucky.

[04:03] Boston, what did Charlie Kirk mean to

[04:05] you? Well, I think he was just a great

[04:08] guy who would like he just went around

[04:10] the country like speaking truth like

[04:13] trying to help people try to understand

[04:16] like

[04:17] truth and like he didn't really deserve

[04:21] to be shot and no one does really but um

[04:26] he he was a he was a great guy. And has

[04:30] he impacted how you speak out perhaps at

[04:34] school or amongst your friends?

[04:36] Uh he's definitely like um he's changed

[04:40] my look out on some things and I think

[04:43] it's I think it's pretty cool how words

[04:46] can do so much. I think his wife's going

[04:50] to do the best she can to carry on his

[04:52] legacy and it it's a it's a lot to take

[04:54] care of. It's a big organization, but I

[04:57] think she's going to do the right thing.

[05:00] I'm here with T from California or Ki as

[05:04] he calls it.

[05:06] You know, it's very sad to to name it

[05:08] because uh u we escaped communism from

[05:11] from Vietnam. Uh we lost a country of

[05:14] South Vietnam to communism in 1975

[05:17] and we have seen um the policy that they

[05:20] use in California is very close to you

[05:23] know what we used to live in. So we call

[05:25] kam.

[05:27] What did Charlie mean to you and to to

[05:30] the conservative movement?

[05:31] Um, personally Charlie's situation means

[05:35] uh a little personal to me because my uh

[05:38] grandfather was assassinated uh when he

[05:41] was only 34 and my mom was seven with a

[05:45] younger brother four year old and her

[05:46] older sister eight years old. So, um I

[05:49] have try I have uh been involved in the

[05:52] Trump campaign for the last uh 10 years,

[05:55] I guess. And my mom just warned me that

[06:00] that she was growing up without a

[06:01] father. So, you know, she she told me

[06:04] that I had to be careful to be out, you

[06:06] know, to come home to my wife and my

[06:09] kid. But uh you know if I we don't

[06:12] people like us we don't do it to take

[06:14] back this country then you know I don't

[06:17] want to feel regret when later I I don't

[06:21] have a chance.

[06:22] Wonderful. Thank you so much. Say

[06:24] yeah thank you. You know what uh

[06:26] Charlie's to me u since God took him

[06:29] away has become more alive more than

[06:32] ever because we don't lose Charlie's.

[06:36] People search for his name. Even my

[06:39] myself I had a a little personal

[06:41] experience just a quick approach when I

[06:44] met him at uh a church in Cal in

[06:46] California and I introduced myself I

[06:48] said I'm one of the friend Rojo Joe you

[06:50] know that that uh volunteer of President

[06:52] Trump and he said oh that's a very

[06:54] dedicated group but compared to Charlie

[06:57] no he is more dedicated to this

[07:02] huge mission to take back this country

[07:06] to goodness and you know educate and

[07:08] tell people the truth and it's very sad

[07:10] that the media portray his pictures like

[07:12] a racist like you know even Obama say

[07:15] you know his idea are wrong he you know

[07:19] it it's very sad to see the party that

[07:24] advertise

[07:25] inclusive love and kindness and

[07:28] everything they have more hatred and

[07:31] they don't want to get together.

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