DAVID MARCUS: At AmericaFest, two legacies hang in the balance, Charlie Kirk’s and Donald Trump’s
‘Saturday in America’ host Kayleigh McEnany reports live from Turning Point USA’s ‘AmericaFest’ where Erika Kirk endorsed Vice President J.D. Vance for president in 2028 on ‘The Story.’
There are two legacies hanging in the balance this weekend in Phoenix as Turning Point USA puts on its annual AmericaFest conference, first is its late founder, Charlie Kirk’s and the other is President Donald Trump’s.
At the convention center here in Arizona, as many as 25,000 attendees are expected to gather to celebrate the life of Kirk, who was tragically murdered just months ago, but also to try to chart a course forward for the movement he marshaled.
Arriving a bit late on Thursday, I was greeted by Lucas, a TPUSA employee from Detroit in his mid-twenties. He was a picture-perfect ambassador, a clean-cut kid who is eschewing his generation’s almost epic bout of despair and instead leaning in to create positive change.
"The energy has been amazing," he told me, referring to the huge upswing in interest in TPUSA since Kirk’s horrible murder.
"Not the........

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