Erika Kirk is absent from Turning Point USA event featuring JD Vance after receiving 'very serious threats'

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Independent

Tuesday 14 April 2026 22:15 EDT


Erika Kirk skipped a Turning Point USA event on Tuesday in Georgia where she was set to appear alongside Vice President JD Vance after receiving “very serious threats,” according to event organizers. “It’s a terrible reflection on the state of reality and the state of the country,” Turning Point USA spokesman Andrew Kolvet said onstage at the Akins Ford Arena in Athens, sitting beside Vance.

Kirk’s late husband, the influential conservative activist Charlie Kirk, was fatally shot in September during an appearance at a campus event in Utah.

“I was so looking forward to tonight’s event at the [University of Georgia] with our Vice President [JD Vance], but after all our family has been through, I take my security team’s recommendations extremely seriously,” Kirk wrote on X.

Vance said the threats ahead of Tuesday’s event left Kirk, Turning Point’s CEO, “worried.” He also lashed out at those he said had been unfairly criticizing her in the wake of her husband’s death. Erika Kirk has become the subject of conspiracy theories in some corners of the right.

Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/erika-kirk-jd-vance-turning-point-usa-threat-b2957721.html

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This is what happens with cults.

[live love laugh]

1. Performative.

[TheRickles]

2. That's the only possible explanation for the extremely low turnout.

Except for the possibility that, maybe, just maybe, Turning Point's 15 minutes of fame is about to expire.

[TexasBushwhacker]

5. Well, I'm sure they had tickets

Whether the tickets were sold or just given out, when she found out the venue was only going to be 1/4 full, she didn't want the humiliation.

[wnylib]

14. Or, maybe she never intended to be there?

Did she lend her name in order to draw people to a rally that Vance wanted to hold?

Bad as the turnout was, it would have been worse if people expected to see only Vance.

[underpants]

7. Good seats where still available

Link to tweet

?s=46

[flashman13]

25. I'd say the Church of Charlie is on its way out. Poor Erika, she might have to get a real job.

[Fiendish Thingy]

3. Were the threats from Usha? Nt

[chicoescuela]

4. Exactly my thoughts

No one else gives a shit

[niyad]

18. That was my first thought.

[Rebl2]

39. I was

Thinking the same thing.

[BlueTsunami2018]

6. This is such bullshit.

The threats were so bad that she couldn’t show up and yet the VP can be there with no problem.

They think everyone is as dumb as their cult.

[live love laugh]

8. It's a ploy to up her importance if anything.

[magicarpet]

28. Erika's no show brought media attention to Turning Point. Excite the sympathy factor

... could help boost attendance at TP events. Media attention contrived or otherwise keeps the milk from the cash cow to a respectable flow. There is a costly lifestyle here to maintain.

[Mawspam2]

38. Trump is looking for a way to dump Vance.

Get ready for Vice-President Matt Gaetz!

[AZLD4Candidate]

9. The only threats were to her pride, face, and wallet due to the singles and singles of people in attendance.

[Scrivener7]

10. The very serious threat of a tiny, tiny crowd.

A little pocket-sized crowd.

An ultra mini crowd.

So teeny.

Almost cute.

[twodogsbarking]

11. The Secret Service is there to protect Vance. That's not enough? Maybe.

[eggplant]

20. I came here to say this.

[gay texan]

12. Bullshit. N/t

[Nigrum Cattus]

26. Indoor event with the S.S. and metal detectors

Agreed, Bullshit

[NBachers]

13. And left poor JV to suffer the humiliation all by his lonesome

[Doodley]

15. BS excuse. Ever heard of video? Live video? Ever heard of bullet-proof screens?

[hadEnuf]

16. False flag.

More manipulation of her husband's murder for attention.

[niyad]

17. Somehow, I am finding this hard to believe.

[Mr. Sparkle]

19. maga on maga violence , they always turn against their own

only the very skilled grifters can stay ahead of the pack.

[underpants]

27. Who do you think killed Charlie Kirk?

There are articles dismissing it or stating there’s no hard evidence but, to me, the links between Robinson and Fuentes/Groyper world are too much to ignore.

[Mr. Sparkle]

30. that's not a bad idea, but there are so many nut's among the right, it could be any of them.

[RussBLib]

36. heard somewhere these "threats" were coming from the right

Don't recall where now.

The left would really have no reason to harass Erica Kirk. Likely the same people that took out Charlie could be pissed at her too. People be crazy over there.

[Jilly_in_VA]

41. Especially since

the bullets picked up at the scene didn't match the rifle. What?

[underpants]

43. I'd think the writing on the bullets was part of the presentation

They weee created to leave a message. Some think to deflect but at the time a lot of people who follow these groups saw it as familiar terminology amongst them.

[ChicagoTeamster]

21. How were the threats conveyed? Any specifics? Are they being investigated? Vance had a Secret Service detail

Her team couldn't coordinate with the Secret Service? Sounds vague like a last minute excuse.
Kind of like "I had to go see a guy about some stuff"
Carry on Turning Point, your CEO leads from afar, keep Charlie's memory alive everyone.

[lonely bird]

22. Hmmmm

Maybe he told her he wouldn’t leave his wife?

[patphil]

23. Fake threats to generate interest in an organization that's slip sliding away?

Or maybe she just didn't want to be in the same building with JD.

[JHB]

24. Yeah, "very serious threats" of being a little too chummy with JD... again.

People pointed out how, shall we say, "very physically comfortable with each other" you two were at Charlie-palooza (the event that was supposed to be a memorial to your husband but was conducted more like a pro wrestling tournament or music festival), and you realized it would be bad optics to repeat that.

[SergeStorms]

29. The threat of not being paid?

Erika is making bank on hubby's murder. No payment? No Erika!

[mdbl]

31. I find it hard to have empathy for someone who runs an orginization that foments hate.

But, whatever.

[Prairie_Seagull]

32. Could it be that there is some

trouble in their paradise?

[Zorro]

33. Sounds as if TP USA is as dead as Saint Charlie

[maxrandb]

34. In a sane world, I wouldn't even know who in the fuck this grifting baglady is

Every fiber of my being, from the deepest depths of my soul, to the tips of my male nipples in the frozen-food section at Harris Teater, knows with a crystalline, pure spar certainty, that I should NOT BE REQUIRED to give ONE-FUCK what this soulless, hell spawn "Netherworld Barbie" has to say about fucking anything, let alone, perish the thought that some madman thinks her important enough to off her dumbass.

My intellect, my psyche, my conscience, my decency and grace...all tell me that I shouldn't even be required to know who in the fuck this person is.

I know this lifeless, grifting, vapid, empty vessel deserve NOT ONE SECOND of my serious thoughts.

This spray-on-tan, Loreal of Bakersfield, plastic, Axe-Body Spray for women wearing moron SHOULD BE THE MOST FUCKING INSIGNIFICANT PERSON WE EVER ARE UNFORTUNATE ENOUGH TO ENCOUNTER.

Her impact on real people's lives should amount to having the same effect of a flea farting in a hurricane. .

I will NEVER forgive fucking brain dead MAGAt shit for Brains voting morons for requiring me to take seriously A FUCKING IGNORANT FUCKSTICK that should NEVER be taken seriously!

Ms Kirk and her fucking supporters, are like dog-shit stuck in the grooves of our tennis shoes.

[IbogaProject]

35. Threats to her inflated self esteem

But who would want to show up after the start of their fall college tour ended in carnage?

[riversedge]

37. A very large arena was rented--but not many showed up--but VP Vance did.

[IbogaProject]

44. Yes, I was just making a joke about the "threat"

As being a threat to her esteem.

[pecosbob]

40. Candace Owens wants her subscribers back.

[FraDon]

42. Security was adequate for a mere VP ...

n/t

[The Grand Illuminist]

45. TPUSA has been in disarray since Charlie was killed.

The head of the snake was cut off, and it is only a matter of time before TPUSA becomes a distant memory. It is what it is.