Vice President JD Vance greets Erika Kirk, Charlie Kirk's widow, during a Turning Point USA event at the University of Mississippi. (Jonathan Ernst/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)
Kirk, who took over the reins of Turning Point after her husband's murder, also emphasized, "We are building the red wall."
"We’re going to make sure that President Trump has Congress for all four years," she added, as she pointed to next year's midterm elections, when Republicans will defend their majorities in the House and Senate.
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The backing of the vice president by Turning Point, which is particularly influential among younger conservatives and whose political arm has built up a powerful grassroots outreach operation, could give Vance a major boost should he decide to run for president in the 2028 election.
Charlie Kirk and JD Vance greet supporters at the end of a campaign rally on May 1, 2022, in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, during Vance's successful run for the Senate. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
Vance and Charlie Kirk were close friends, and the vice president credits Kirk with his political rise.
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Vance honored his late friend by flying with Kirk's casket back to Arizona from Utah, where he was assassinated in September, aboard Air Force Two. And Vance hosted Kirk's popular podcast as it returned following Kirk's death.
While Vance has yet to say anything publicly on whether he'll launch a 2028 campaign to succeed the term-limited Trump, he is considered by many on the right to be the president's heir apparent to eventually take over the MAGA mantle.
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