GLENDALE, Arizona — Up to 200,000 mourners dressed in red, white, and blue turned out to honor Charlie Kirk on Sunday at a memorial service in Arizona, where his fellow conservatives praised him as an inspirational Christian leader and vowed to carry on with the political movement he started.

President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and several cabinet members were scheduled to pay tribute to the charismatic Kirk 11 days after he was assassinated during a campus event in Utah.

The memorial, organized by Kirk’s conservative youth advocacy organization Turning Point USA, had the feel of a religious revival mixed with a “Make America Great Again” political rally.

Conservative podcaster Benny Johnson credited Kirk with helping him move past an addiction to alcohol to lead a more mora

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