Protests are expected as Turning Point USA, the conservative student group founded by Charlie Kirk, makes its final college tour stop at UC Berkeley on Monday evening, two months after the controversial founder was shot and killed at a Utah university.

Kirk was originally set to headline the sold-out appearance as part of the American Comeback Tour, a series of college campus visits across the country that were meant to mark a triumphant year for the organization.

From Republicans’ sweeping 2024 congressional wins to President Donald Trump’s inauguration, the theme was “definitely very resonant of the current climate on the national level,” said John Paul Leon, the president of UC Berkeley’s TPUSA chapter.

Since Kirk was killed during the opening leg of his tour in Orem, Utah, on

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