Turning Point USA’s ‘American Comeback Tour’ to honor Charlie Kirk at University of Minnesota event with touching gesture

Turning Point USA will honor slain founder Charlie Kirk with a touching tribute in Minnesota on Monday as his “American Comeback Tour” goes ahead as planned in the wake of his assassination.

Conservative commentator Michael Knowles told Fox & Friends that he will leave an empty chair on stage for Kirk when the tour holds its next stop at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities on Monday evening.

“I will appear tonight. There will be an empty chair on stage. I will give a tribute to Charlie and then we will open up the floor to an open conversation,” he said.

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“Charlie’s enemies will not have stopped that. People who disagree can, like at all of his events, cut to the front of the line and we will continue to have a healthy debate.”

Kirk was gunned down on stage during a tour stop at the Utah Valley University on Sept. 10.

In the wake of his murder, Knowles said Kirk’s friends had vowed to forge ahead with the remain stops on the tour.

“I’ll be doing it with a lot of Charlie’s friends,” he said.

“I think that Charlie’s enemies thought that they could not only silence him, but in fact silence his whole movement. That will not happen. In fact, they will not even silence his speaking tour.”