Kirk’s widow endorses Vance as MAGA infighting rages
Kirk’s widow endorses Vance as MAGA infighting rages
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Kirk’s widow endorses Vance as MAGA infighting rages© Cheney Orr/Reuters
PHOENIX — Erika Kirk, the widow of slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk, said Thursday the group her husband founded would work to elect JD Vance president in 2028 as infighting over the future of the GOP took center stage.
Kicking off Turning Point USA’s first national conference since her husband was fatally shot in September, Erika Kirk said to big cheers that the organization she now leads is “going to get my husband’s friend JD Vance elected for 48 in the most resounding way possible.” Vance, the vice president, has not yet said that he will run in 2028, but the Republican jockeying to succeed President Donald Trump is already underway.
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The opening night of Turning Point’s four-day conference here in Phoenix also laid bare how different factions of the “Make America Great Again” movement led by Trump are fighting over its direction. Some of the biggest stars in the conservative movement publicly berated each other, with podcaster Ben Shapiro denouncing other featured speakers as “frauds and grifters.”
Erika Kirk’s endorsement of Vance is notable given Turning Point’s reach and the influence her late husband had begun to wield over the young conservative movement. But it had been expected to come eventually, as Vance and Charlie Kirk had shared a deep friendship in recent years.
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Charlie Kirk was among the influential voices — along with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk and others — who advocated for Trump to select Vance as his running mate in 2024. After Kirk’s killing, Vance and his wife quickly canceled their plans to attend a Sept. 11 memorial event to fly to Utah to meet with Erika Kirk and escort Charlie Kirk’s body back to their home in Phoenix.Related video: Kayleigh McEnany says young people are being drawn to ‘faith, hope and truth’ at TPUSA’s ‘AmericaFest’ (FOX News)
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Divisions on the right have been on stark display for months as influencers clash over conspiracy theories about Kirk’s death, shifting GOP views on Israel and whether some MAGA leaders are giving a platform to bigotry. This week’s conference hosted by Turning Point has brought many of those figures together in the same place.
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Two MAGA women quit within minutes of each other
Story by Adam Downer
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MAGA women are fleeing D.C. in droves.
New York congresswoman and MAGA darling Elise Stefanik shocked the political world on Friday when she announced that she’s quitting politics. Less than 30 minutes earlier, Wyoming Senator Cynthia Lummis had done the same thing.
Stefanik’s announcement is easily the more surprising of the two. The 41-year-old congresswoman was a rising star in MAGA circles and was seen as a lock to win June 2026’s GOP primary in New York’s gubernatorial race.
Stefanik was one of Trump’s most ardent supporters in Congress and was seen as a lock to win New York’s gubernatorial primary for the GOP. / ANGELA WEISS / Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images
“While spending precious time with my family this Christmas season, I have made the decision to suspend my campaign for Governor and will not seek re-election to Congress,” she wrote in a lengthy X post.
Stefanik indicated she was stepping out of politics to spend more time with her 4-year-old son, Sam. Continue reading
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Haunting text sent by Greg Biffle’s wife just before plane crash revealed
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Cristina Grossu Biffle, the wife of former NASCAR driver Greg Biffle, sent a haunting text to her mother moments before a private plane crash that killed the couple, their two children and three others.
Cathy Grossu told PEOPLE that she received a text from her daughter stating, “We’re in trouble” just before her death on Thursday (December 18).
“She texted me from the plane and she said, ‘We’re in trouble.’ And that was it,” she said while crying. “So we’re devastated. We’re brokenhearted.”
Cristina, Greg, their daughter, Emma, and son, Ryder, were among the seven people killed in a private plane crash at Statesville Regional Airport on Thursday, Iredell County officials confirmed via WCNC. Garrett Mitchell, better known by his social media moniker ‘Cleetus McFarland,’ confirmed that the Biffles were killed in the plane crash in a statement shared on his Facebook account. Continue reading
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“Unfortunately, I can confirm Greg Biffle, his wife Cristina, daughter Emma, and son Ryder were on that plane,” Mitchell wrote. “Because they were on their way to spend the afternoon with us. We are devastated. I’m so sorry to share this.”
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