The media and militant mourning of the widow of Charlie Kirk

(Washington) Erika Kirk, the widow of the American conservative infector Charlie Kirk, killed in the midst of a public meeting last week, chose to experience his mourning in an ultra -mediah way, determined to carry the ideological fight that the couple shared.

Aged 36, married since 2021 and mother of two young children, crowned Miss Arizona in 2012 and installed with the family in this west of the country, the young widow with piercing blue eyes and long blond hair, cross around her neck, defends the vision of Charlie Kirk, cantor of a Christian and traditionalist America.

Two days after the standard bearer of the Trumpist youth, at the head of the Conservative Turning Point USA movement, was shot dead on an American university campus, she spoke on social networks for a declaration to the tunes of profession of faith.

“The movement that my husband built will not die,” she promised, standing next to the chair from which he animated his very listened to.

“Those who do evil and are responsible for the assassination of my husband have no idea what they have done,” she hammered. They killed Charlie because he preached a message of patriotism, faith, and merciful love of God. »»

Impregnated faith

“You have no idea what you just triggered. You have no idea of ​​the fire you lit inside this woman. The tears of this widow will resonate throughout the world as a war cry, “she continued, calling the young people sensitive to her message to join the movement co-founded by her husband and personally thanking Donald Trump for his support.

The Republican President announced that he would be present at the tribute ceremony organized on Sunday in Arizona, in Glendale, in a stadium of more than 60,000 places.

Erika Kirk’s entrepreneurial and broom activities are imbued with her claimed Christian faith. His clothing line called Proclaim displays Citations de la Bible and religious imaging. With Biblein365, it offers daily support to read the Bible in a year. Her weekly broom aims to “allow you to breathe deeply by telling you” God takes care of it “,” she describes on his website.

A graduate in law, and in political science and international relations, she currently says they do a doctorate in biblical studies in an evangelical university.

Followed by more than 5 million subscribers on Instagram, Erika Kirk shares his mourning as close as possible. In a set of photos and videos published on Friday, she is exposed holding and kissing the hand of her dead husband, leaning on her half -open coffin. She is also bent with sorrow on the tarmac of an airport alongside JD Vance and his USHA wife, before Charlie Kirk’s body was transported aboard the plane of the American vice-president.

Model couple

The public image of their couple could be used by Charlie and Erika Kirk as a appeal product for the conservative movement of the influencer close to Donald Trump.

In Dallas in June, she accompanied her husband on stage to the biggest gathering of young conservative women in the country, organized by Turning Point USA.

“You do not spoil your diploma when you raise your children in wisdom, love and truth. I don’t want you to run after a salary, ”said Erika Kirk, quoted by the New York Timesconsidering that getting married “after thirty years” was “not ideal”.

“God is so wonderful. When I met Charlie, having a career became the youngest of my concerns, ”she confided.

“Our fight is not only political, it is above all spiritual,” said the widow of Charlie Kirk on Friday, committing to that his movement becomes “stronger, more sound, more ambitious, and larger than ever”.

A sign of the resonance of their common cause, millions of dollars of donations have been accumulated by various support initiatives since the day the popular influencer was killed.