{"id":192703,"date":"2025-12-19T07:45:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T07:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/192703\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T07:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T07:45:08","slug":"erika-kirk-endorses-jd-vance-for-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/192703\/","title":{"rendered":"Erika Kirk endorses JD Vance for president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/lY_oo2mSjxo?si=O8hxRpI96f7NHaZp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">her opening remarks<\/a> at Turning Point USA&#8217;s AmericaFest conference, Erika Kirk, \u00a0CEO of the influential conservative organization, endorsed Vice President JD Vance for president in 2028.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are going to get my husband&#8217;s friend, JD Vance, elected 48 in the most resounding way possible,&#8221; the widow of Charlie Kirk, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/charlie-kirk-murder-suspect-court-tyler-robinson-judge-weighs-media-access\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">slain co-founder of Turning Point USA<\/a>, said as the crowd erupted in applause.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/gettyimages-2251966810.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"US-POLITICS-TURNING POINT-KIRK \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Turning Point USA CEO Erika Kirk, widow of late right-wing political activist Charlie Kirk, speaks at the organization&#8217;s annual AmericaFest conference in Phoenix on Dec. 18, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>                Olivier Touron \/ AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Vance has not publicly indicated whether he intends to run for president but is widely expected to make a decision after the 2026 midterm elections. Still , an early endorsement from a powerful conservative group that helped galvanize young voters in 2024 for the Trump-Vance ticket underscores his growing stature within the movement and would carry significant influence in a future GOP presidential primary field.<\/p>\n<p>The vice president is scheduled to address the annual conference of thousands of conservatives on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Turning Point USA&#8217;s annual youth conference is being held in Phoenix.<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n<p>\n                Go deeper with The Free Press\n              <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During her opening remarks at Turning Point USA&#8217;s AmericaFest conference, Erika Kirk, \u00a0CEO of the influential conservative organization,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[10119,74649,85,46,11487,43,15991],"class_list":{"0":"post-192703","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-charlie-kirk","9":"tag-erika-kirk","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-jd-vance","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-turning-point-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}