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When Turning Point USA’s college tour resumed on Monday night at the University of Minnesota, in its first event since its founder’s assassination, there was a big unspoken question: What would this movement be without Charlie Kirk?
The organization has a lineup of speaker events for what was Charlie Kirk’s “Comeback Tour”—now styled “The Turning Point Tour”—that includes sitting governors, U.S. senators, and famous media personalities. It promised to carry on Kirk’s legacy. But it remained to be seen if the substitutes, all prominent figures with their own personal ambitions, political incentives, and ideological subcultures, would appeal in the same way as Kir