Vice President J.D. Vance will speak at a Turning Point USA event at the University of Mississippi in Oxford.

The event will take place on October 29th.

Vance will appear alongside Charlie Kirk’s wife and the new Turning Point CEO, Erika Kirk.

“I’m going to do exactly what Charlie did,” Vance said, according to POLITICO.

“My plan is to give a little speech, talk about the issues of the day, but turn most of it over to just do Q&A with the audience. I want to hear from these kids, I want to answer questions from them,” he added.

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Turning Point, an organization focused on engaging conservative youth voters, resumed its campus tours last month after Charlie Kirk was shot while answering questions at a college in Orem, Utah, on Sept. 10. The Ole Miss event will be the only one where Erika Kirk speaks, said Andrew Kolvet, producer of “The Charlie Kirk Show.”

“Part of keeping Charlie’s memory alive is keeping the mission alive,” the vice president added. “Nobody can replace Charlie, but if we all take little pieces, we can do as much as we can to ensure that Charlie’s mission continues to survive long after he’s gone.”

President Donald Trump on Tuesday bestowed Charlie Kirk with a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country’s top civilian honor. Erika Kirk, who spoke at the Rose Garden event, has been staying with the second family in the Naval Observatory, Vance said.

“If we’re going to have real unity in this country, we’re all going to have to acknowledge that killing people for what they think and what they believe is wrong — and right now, that violent impulse is a bigger problem on the left than the right,” Vance said.

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Axios noted:

TPUSA had previously scheduled its campus tour to feature Charlie Kirk hosting his famous “prove me wrong” events. The reworked slate shifts to indoor talks with guest speakers and fewer debate-style exchanges.

Other speakers so far have included podcaster Megyn Kelly and Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-Va.), himself a potential 2028 contender.

Vance told The Charlie Kirk Show he’s excited for the Ole Miss stop and views it as part of continuing Kirk’s activism.

“Part of keeping Charlie’s memory alive is keeping the mission alive. And nobody can replace Charlie, but if we all sort of take little pieces, we can do as much as we can to ensure that Charlie’s mission continues to survive long after he’s gone, and part of that is these campus tours,” he said.

 

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