Republicans who knew Charlie Kirk from early days of Turning Point USA react to his assassination

(11 Sep 2025)
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Phoenix – 11 September 2025
1. Various of memorial for Charlie Kirk outside of Turning Point USA headquarters

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Palatine, Illinois – 11 September 2025
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Aaron Del Mar, Chairman of Cook County Republican Party:
"We need to make it very clear that political violence is not going to be accepted on any level, regardless of how inflamed you may become by hearing one side or the other. And I can tell you from a safety perspective, there’s a lot of concern right now."

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Phoenix – 11 September 2025
3. Close of memorial for Charlie Kirk outside of Turning Point USA headquarters
4. Sign for Turning Point USA headquarters

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Palatine, Illinois – 11 September 2025
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Aaron Del Mar, Chairman of Cook County Republican Party:
"We’ve already started talking about, hey, you know what, we’re going to start bringing events indoors. We’re going to start maybe bringing metal detectors and wanding people. We are going to start doing more sign-ins and pre-RSVPs so we can background check. And we have to be responsible for each other’s safety. While I think that’s great to have within our own parties, I think that once we get into general elections, we need to be having it with the other side as well."

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Phoenix – 11 September 2025
6. Various wides of memorial for Charlie Kirk outside of Turning Point USA headquarters

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Arlington, Virginia – 11 September 2025
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Marko Sukovic, former outreach director at Turning Point USA:
"It was shocking. I’ve had loved ones and family members and friends pass away, but I think I made a mistake of watching just the video of what happened, and it just really had a different, it sunk a different way with me more than any kind of any event really like that has ever done for me. So it was difficult to process that. I’m still processing what it means."

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ARCHIVE: Oconomowoc, Wisconsin – 17 March 2025
8. STILL: Charlie Kirk speaks during a town hall meeting (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps; ID 25253676809293)

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ARCHIVE: Las Vegas – 24 October 2024
9. STILL:Turning Point USA Founder Charlie Kirk speaks during a campaign rally (AP Photo/John Locher; ID 25253675698555)

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Arlington, Virginia – 11 September 2025
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Marko Sukovic, former outreach director at Turning Point USA:
"Charlie was all about pursuing the civic discourse. And that’s how he hoped to make his impact. That’s how we did make his impact, was by really doubling down on, you may not like what I have to say, but we’re gonna talk about it."

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ARCHIVE: Oconomowoc, Wisconsin – 17 March 2025
11. STILL: Donald Trump Jr. right and Charlie Kirk speak during a town hall meeting (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps; ID 25077060939970)

STORYLINE:
Charlie Kirk, who rose from a teenage conservative campus activist to a top podcaster and ally of President Donald Trump, was shot and killed Wednesday during one of his trademark public appearances at a college in Utah. He was 31.

Kirk died doing what made him a potent political force — rallying the right on a college campus, this time Utah Valley University. The event was kicking off a planned series of Kirk college appearances from Colorado to Virginia dubbed “The American Comeback Tour.”

Marko Sukovic, former outreach director at Turning Point USA, said, "Charlie was all about pursuing the civic discourse. And that’s how he hoped to make his impact."

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