For one night, Vice President JD Vance stepped into late political commentator Charlie Kirk’s role and debated students at the University of Mississippi on Wednesday night.

He did so alongside the widowed wife of Kirk, Erika Kirk, as a part of Turning Point USA’s “This Is The Turning Point” tour, which is an extension of the “American Comeback Tour” and has included known conservatives like Utah’s Sen. Mike Lee and Gov. Spencer Cox, Tucker Carlson, Vivek Ramaswamy and Rob Schneider.

The stop in Oxford, Miss., is the first time the vice president and Erika Kirk took the stage for this tour in honor of Charlie Kirk .

Erika Kirk opens up about personal grief

Kirk, who wore a white “Freedom” shirt, similar to the one her husband wore the day he was killed, spoke about her husband’s legac

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