{"id":2490470,"date":"2025-09-24T10:41:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T14:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/byron-york-predicts-tpusa-will-find-it-hard-to-continue-after-being-built-on-the-talents-of-charlie-kirk\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T10:42:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T14:42:13","slug":"byron-york-predicts-tpusa-will-find-it-hard-to-continue-after-being-built-on-the-talents-of-charlie-kirk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/byron-york-predicts-tpusa-will-find-it-hard-to-continue-after-being-built-on-the-talents-of-charlie-kirk\/","title":{"rendered":"Byron York predicts TPUSA will find it \u2018hard to continue\u2019 after being \u2018built on the talents\u2019 of Charlie Kirk"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbyron-york-predicts-tpusa-will-find-it-hard-to-continue-after-being-built-on-the-talents-of-charlie-kirk%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2490470&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-taking-regeneron-drug-remdesivir-therapy-for-coronavirus-diagnosis-ex-wh-doctor-explains\/\" title=\"Trump taking Regeneron drug, Remdesivir therapy for coronavirus diagnosis: ex-WH doctor explains\">article<\/a> discusses Washington Examiner Chief Political Correspondent Byron York&#8217;s views on the future of Turning Point USA (TPUSA) following the death of its founder, Charlie Kirk. York suggests that TPUSA will find it challenging to continue without kirk, whom he describes as a &#8220;very unique individual&#8221; whose talents where central to the organization&#8217;s success. He likens the situation to the Republican Party&#8217;s challenge of moving forward after Donald Trump, another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-ukraine-crisis-is-a-direct-result-of-bidens-weak-foreign-policy\/\" title=\"The Ukraine Crisis Is A Direct Result Of Biden\u2019s Weak Foreign Policy\">historically unique<\/a> figure. Kirk died two weeks prior from a gunshot wound at a campus event in Utah. His widow, Erika Kirk, has been named the new CEO of TPUSA and has pledged to honor her late husband&#8217;s vision by expanding the organization substantially. the article also notes that TPUSA originally had two co-founders, including bill Montgomery, who died in 2020. Erika Kirk emphasized commitment to growing TPUSA through opening new chapters and hosting debates in her <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >public memorial speech<\/a>. <br \/> <!DOCTYPE html><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Byron York predicts TPUSA will find it &lsquo;hard to continue&rsquo; after being &lsquo;built on the talents&rsquo; of Charlie Kirk<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2238665\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">The&nbsp;<em>Washington Examiner&rsquo;s<\/em>&nbsp;Chief Political Corre<\/span>spondent,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/daily-memo\/3818510\/conflict-aftermath-killing-charlie-kirk-suspect-tyler-robinson\/\">Byron York<\/a>,&nbsp;suggested Turning Point USA&nbsp;will struggle to replace&nbsp;the &ldquo;very unique individual&rdquo; that was Charlie Kirk for its head.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I think that all of the admiring testimony and discussion of him in the past two weeks has really suggested this was a very unique individual,&rdquo; York said on <em>The Hugh Hewitt Show<\/em> Wednesday. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s really hard to continue an organization that is built on the talents of an extremely unique individual.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3821735\/camp-mystic-reopen-summer-2026-texas-floods-killed-campers\/\">Camp Mystic to partially reopen next summer after Texas floods killed campers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/washington-secrets\/3821792\/kamala-harris-new-book-ultimate-diss-she-doesnt-matter\/\">For Harris, the ultimate diss: She &lsquo;doesn&rsquo;t matter&rsquo;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3821632\/trump-box-office-urgency-united-nations-address-analysis\/\">Trump brings box office and urgency to UN<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Kirk died of a gunshot wound two weeks ago while at a campus event in Utah. Kirk&rsquo;s widowed wife, Erika Kirk, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3813962\/erika-kirk-turning-point-usa-ceo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">has since been named the CEO<\/a> of the foundation, which was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/politics\/1463441\/kid-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">started by Kirk in 2012<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>York implied that Turning Point USA is facing a problem comparable to the Republican Party, which will have to present a new Republican candidate for president in 2028 when Trump reaches his term limit.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This is in a larger sense, when the Republican party looks at Donald Trump and says this is an absolutely unique, historically unique, individual. It&rsquo;s not like there&rsquo;s going to be another one anytime soon,&rdquo; York said.<\/p>\n<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/74qnTYioEiE?si=qv-ECL-bOMPHVC1-\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>    <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;What the post-Trump Republican party will look like, who knows? But it&rsquo;s going to be a lot of people trying to sort of live up to something that can&rsquo;t actually even be lived up to,&rdquo; York said.<\/p>\n<p>Turning Point USA originally had two co-founders, Kirk and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/2622167\/turning-point-usa-co-founder-dies-after-contracting-coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bill Montgomery<\/a>, who died in 2020 at the age of 80 after contracting COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/daily-memo\/3818510\/conflict-aftermath-killing-charlie-kirk-suspect-tyler-robinson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>CONFLICT IN AFTERMATH OF KIRK KILLING<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During a Sunday memorial service for her husband in Arizona, Erika Kirk pledged to the crowd, &ldquo;everything that Turning Point USA built through Charlie&rsquo;s vision and hard work, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3817611\/erika-kirk-forgives-husbands-killer-pledges-to-grow-turning-point\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">we will make 10 times greater<\/a> through the power of his memory.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She also committed to continuing to open TPUSA chapters and hosting debates.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Byron York says TPUSA will struggle without Charlie Kirk&#8217;s unique leadership<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2631,"featured_media":2490471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/charlie-kirk-cardinals-1.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[37928,44291,21547],"class_list":["post-2490470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-byron-york","tag-charlie-kirk","tag-tpusa"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/charlie-kirk-cardinals-1.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2490470"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2490474,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490470\/revisions\/2490474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2490471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2490470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2490470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2490470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}