Gianforte honors Charlie Kirk at Turning Point rally at MSU
Students wait for a Turning Point USA event to begin at Montana State University on Oct. 7, 2025, in Bozeman. (Lauren Miller, Montana Free Press, CatchLight Local/Report for America)
Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte and Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy headlined a Turning Point USA event at Montana State University Tuesday evening, filling in for Turning Point’s founder, Charlie Kirk, just weeks after the charismatic conservative leader’s assassination.
The hours-long conversation, part of the Arizona-based nonprofit’s effort to keep its movement advancing under the leadership of Kirk’s widow, Erika, swung from Christianity and starting families to ending political violence. The audience stretched from the center court of Brick Breeden Fieldhouse to the rafters of the south seating area. More than half of the arena’s seating area had been tightly partitioned out with a curtain, leaving just enough room for the audience of roughly 3,000.
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