The widow of slain right-wing activist Charlie Kirk is to take his place at the head of youth action campaign group Turning Point USA, officials announced Thursday.

Two days after her husband was shot dead on a univerity campus, allegedly by a 22-year-old gunman, Erika Kirk told supporters: “The movement my husband built will not die.”

Now the organization’s board says Kirk will take her husband’s place as its leader.

“The Turning Point Board has unanimously elected Erika Kirk as the new CEO and Chair of the Board,” a post on X said Thursday.

“In prior discussions, Charlie expressed to multiple executives that this is what he wanted in the event of his death.”

Kirk’s death last week sparked a wave of mourning among conservatives for a man they hailed as a champion of free speech and C

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