BREAKING: JD Vance to join Erika Kirk for Turning Point USA campus tour stop at Ole Miss

Vice President JD Vance will be joining Erika Kirk at the University of Mississippi, better known by the name of Ole Miss, on October 29. 

Charlie Kirk Show executive producer Andrew Kolvet made the announcement during Wednesday’s edition of the show, on which Vance appeared. "So you are actually going to be joining Erika Kirk on our campus tour. This is gonna be a big one."

Kolvet later added, "You guys are going to be at Ole Miss together, and it’s going to be Erika’s only appearance on the tour. I mean, we really, you know, we thought about suggesting to her to do more, and it’s just, she needs time. She needs time. But she wanted to make it a priority to be at this one, and you’re making it a priority to be at this one." He said that there’s going to be between 9,000 and 10,000 people at the stop.

In the wake of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk's September assassination, Erika Kirk, his wife, was named board chair and CEO of the organization. Erika Kirk was at the White House on Wednesday to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously awarded to her husband on his behalf. 

Vance spoke at Charlie Kirk’s memorial in late September, telling the massive crowd in Arizona, "He was taken from us by those who despise the virtues that actually made our civilization great to begin with. Dialogue, truth-seeking, family, and faith. In the wake of his death, we have seen some of the very worst parts of humanity. We have watched people slander him. We have watched people justify his murder and celebrate his death. I know that this makes you angry just as it has made me angry. But it is easy in these moments to see only the worst of our fellow man."

“I think he would encourage me to be honest that evil still walks among us,” Vance continued. “Not to ignore it for the sake of a fake kumbaya moment, but to address it head on and honestly as the sickness that it is. But I also think he would encourage me, he would encourage all of us to focus on the good... He would tell me to put on the full armor of God and get back to work. He would tell us to commit ourselves to telling the truth and to fight for that truth each and every single day. He would tell us to talk about God’s love and the fact that that love applied to everybody across the whole human family.”

“Charlie suffered a terrible fate, my friends. We all know it. We all saw it. But think, it is not the worst fate. It is better to face a gunman than to live your life afraid to speak the truth. It is better to be persecuted for your faith than to deny the kingship of Christ. It is better to die a young man in this world than to sell your soul for an easy life with no purpose, no risk, no love, and no truth. Christ told us in the Gospel of John, I have said these things to you that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation, but take heart, I have overcome the world. Charlie took heart, and now we must do the same.”