Turning Point USA announced on September 18 that Erika Kirk, the widow of its co-founder Charlie Kirk, has been unanimously elected as the organisation’s new Chief Executive Officer and chair of the board. The board noted that Charlie Kirk had privately expressed the wish that his wife succeed him if he were unable to continue, saying he had “prepared all of us for a moment like this.”

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