{"id":2522983,"date":"2025-12-18T21:17:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T02:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/erika-kirk-vows-to-get-vance-elected-for-48-at-americafest\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T21:19:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T02:19:03","slug":"erika-kirk-vows-to-get-vance-elected-for-48-at-americafest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/erika-kirk-vows-to-get-vance-elected-for-48-at-americafest\/","title":{"rendered":"Erika Kirk vows to get Vance &#8216;elected for 48&#8217; at AmericaFest"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Ferika-kirk-vows-to-get-vance-elected-for-48-at-americafest%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=2522983&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>Erika Kirk, CEO of Turning Point USA (TPUSA), pledged to strongly support Vice President JD Vance&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pete-buttigieg-leans-into-new-media-ahead-of-possible-2028-run\/\" title=\"Pete Buttigieg leans into new media ahead of possible 2028 run\">potential 2028 presidential bid<\/a> during her keynote speech at TPUSA&#8217;s AmericaFest. Speaking at the event&#8217;s opening, she emphasized the organization&#8217;s commitment to helping the GOP secure victories in upcoming midterm elections and endorsed vance as a candidate, highlighting her personal connection as he is a friend of her late husband, Charlie Kirk, TPUSA&#8217;s founder who was assassinated earlier that year.<\/p>\n<p>Kirk outlined plans to focus political efforts in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/huge-sidney-powell-witness-whom-ny-times-described-as-always-the-smartest-person-in-the-room-concludes-hundreds-of-thousands-of-votes-transferred-from-trump-to-biden-in-all-battleground-states\/\" title=\"HUGE! Sidney Powell Witness Whom NY Times Described as &quot;Always the Smartest Person in the Room&quot; Concludes Hundreds of Thousands of Votes Transferred from Trump to Biden IN ALL BATTLEGROUND ...\">key battleground states<\/a> such as Arizona, Nevada, and New Hampshire, endorsing Rep. Andy Biggs for Arizona governor and promising to continue TPUSA&#8217;s campus engagement through debate initiatives in honor of charlie kirk&#8217;s legacy. She noted the event&#8217;s large and diverse attendance, including many students and women, and framed AmericaFest as a festivity of faith, freedom, and the organization&#8217;s mission following a arduous period.<\/p>\n<p>The festival featured several high-profile conservative speakers,with Vance scheduled as the closing speaker. Erika Kirk positioned TPUSA to be a major force in conservative politics leading up to the 2026 and 2028 elections.  <\/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\">Erika Kirk vows to get Vance &lsquo;elected for 48&rsquo; at AmericaFest<\/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_2449382\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/turning-point-usa\/\">Turning Point USA<\/a> CEO <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/erika-kirk\/\">Erika Kirk <\/a>promised to put the organization&rsquo;s weight behind getting Vice President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/jd-vance\/\">JD Vance<\/a> elected as the next president of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>With the spotlight on her as the opening speaker of TPUSA&rsquo;s AmericaFest on Thursday, Kirk used her speech to highlight the large student attendance in the audience, commit to helping the GOP win its <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/midterm-elections\/\">midterm elections<\/a>, and endorse Vance in the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/2028-elections\/\">2028 presidential election<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3925360\/aoc-stomp-vance-2028-matchup-poll\/\">AOC says she&#8217;d &#8216;stomp&#8217; Vance in 2028 matchup after poll shows her leading VP<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re going to ensure that President Trump has Congress for all four years. We are going to get my husband&rsquo;s friend JD Vance elected for 48 in the most resounding way possible,&rdquo; Kirk said.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/washington-secrets\/3916973\/trump-slows-bleeding-of-independent-voters\/\">TRUMP SLOWS BLEEDING OF INDEPENDENT VOTERS: WHITE HOUSE REPORT CARD<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kirk&rsquo;s support for Vance follows months of <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3925360\/aoc-stomp-vance-2028-matchup-poll\/\">speculation<\/a> from political pundits, as well as <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3867482\/trump-rules-out-third-term-dangling-possible-2028-run-months\/\">President Donald Trump<\/a>, throwing the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >vice president&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3867778\/trump-floating-vance-rubio-2028-ticket-for-six-months\/\">hat in the ring<\/a> for 2028. Vance has not yet announced or launched a bid to be the next president.<\/p>\n<p>The four-day AmericaFest event is the first annual conference without Kirk&rsquo;s late husband and TPUSA founder, Charlie Kirk, since his assassination on Sept. 10. The event will be &ldquo;a powerful celebration of faith, freedom, and the legacy of our founder, Charlie Kirk,&rdquo; as the description reads.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Erika Kirk, left, hugs Vice President JD Vance speaks during a &ldquo;This Is the Turning Point&rdquo; campus tour event at the University of Mississippi, in Oxford, Mississippi, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025. (AP Photo\/Gerald Herbert)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Erika Kirk was the first of many conservative voices and Make America Great Again movement leaders to take the stage at this year&rsquo;s AmericaFest. She will be followed by such speakers as Tucker Carlson, Steve Bannon, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), Donald Trump Jr., and Vance as the final speaker on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>She vowed to use Turning Point Action, the political advocacy group of TPUSA, to help win elections across Arizona, Nevada, and New Hampshire. She emphasized her endorsement of Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) to be the next governor of the Grand Canyon State.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We are locked in and mission-focused for both 2026 and 2028. We&rsquo;re investing in states and not just in races. So what I mean by that is we are building the red wall &mdash; Arizona, Nevada, New Hampshire. That&rsquo;s going to be very important to us,&rdquo; Erika Kirk said. &ldquo;And for our hometown, Arizona folks, are you guys in the house, Arizona? &lsquo;Go Biggs or go home,&rsquo; is where we&rsquo;re at right now, mentally.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Erika Kirk referenced and paid tribute to Charlie Kirk throughout the speech, recounting what she has learned in the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3915248\/tyler-robinson-lawyers-court-camera-charlie-kirk\/\">three months following his assassination<\/a> in Orem, Utah. She announced, in honor of her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/erika-kirk-sends-powerful-message-to-evildoers-behind-assassination-you-have-no-idea-what-you-unleashed\/\" title=\"... Sends Powerful Message to &#039;Evildoers&#039; Behind Assassination: &#039;You Have No Idea What You... Unleashed&#039;\">late husband&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s love for debate, TPUSA would be picking back up its &ldquo;Prove Me Wrong&rdquo; campus tour stops. Charlie Kirk was assassinated during a stop on the tour at Utah Valley University in September.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3919151\/tpusa-americafest-post-charlie-kirk-death\/\">TPUSA LOOKS TO DRAW A LINE UNDER &lsquo;CONTENTIOUS&rsquo; FEW MONTHS WITH AMERICAFEST: &lsquo;TIME TO GET TO WORK&rsquo;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Charlie&rsquo;s love for debate will always be the DNA of Turning Point USA. We believe in debate because we believe in truth, and we believe in civil discourse because we believe that truth can withstand scrutiny. So that is why we will be launching the &lsquo;Pick Up The Mic&rsquo; initiative and getting back on campus for &lsquo;Prove Me Wrongs&rsquo; and campus tour events this spring and fall of 2026,&rdquo; Erika Kirk said.<\/p>\n<p>While Erika Kirk initially navigated the technical difficulties of not having her speech available for the first several minutes of her appearance, she highlighted statistics about the attendees at the event. She remarked that a third of the attendees were students, 54% of attendees were <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/women\/\">women<\/a>, and all 50 states and 25 other countries were represented.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/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>Erika Kirk pledges to back Vance for 2028 at AmericaFest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3976,"featured_media":2522984,"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\/12\/AP25303005498739.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[69012,3728,63117,15469],"class_list":["post-2522983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-americafest","tag-election","tag-erika-kirk","tag-vance"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/AP25303005498739.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2522983","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\/3976"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2522983"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2522983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2522987,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2522983\/revisions\/2522987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2522984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2522983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2522983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2522983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}