Turning Point USA CEO Erika Kirk canceled a highly anticipated appearance with Vice President JD Vance after receiving “very serious threats,” a spokesman for the group said Tuesday.
Andrew Kolvet, a spokesman for the conservative student activist group, stepped in for Charlie Kirk’s widow at the Athens, Ga., event and informed the crowd why the grieving mother of two couldn’t be there to interview the vice president, who still attended the event.
“I’m going to address it right at the front, Mr. Vice President, I’m on stage here instead of our friend Erika Kirk because unfortunately she has received some very serious threats in her direction,” Kolvet said.