Glendale, Arizona — Tara Hall walked with a smile through the busy parking lot at State Farm Stadium in Glendale — even after she was turned away from the Charlie Kirk memorial.

The trek to Phoenix had already been an ordeal. When her flight from South Carolina was delayed, she drove three hours to the Atlanta airport, barely making it onto a flight 10 minutes before the doors closed. She arrived at her hotel at 1:30 a.m., and after an hour and a half of sleep, pulled herself out of bed so she could pay her respects to Kirk, who was fatally shot at a college event in Utah on Sept. 10.

By 3:30 a.m., she had joined tens of thousands of others hoping to make it inside the stadium.

Hall said she met many people like herself, all sharing what Kirk and his political activism and religious con

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