A crucifix thrust out the tinted window of a car. Hands resting on a coffin.

The images of Erika Kirk in the days since her husband, Charlie Kirk, was assassinated have been wrenching.

Though Erika Kirk has now lurched into a new and harrowing spotlight as she grieves in public, for four years she has stood on convention stages alongside Charlie Kirk and built her own following of young conservative admirers, while helping her husband build his.

“You have no idea the fire that you have ignited within this wife,” Erika Kirk said, standing in a white blazer at a lectern at Turning Point USA headquarters on Friday, in her first public speech since her husband, a right-wing force and a key ally to US President Donald Trump, was killed at a college event in Utah . “The cries of this wido

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