The American Comeback Tour will still be held Monday night at the University of Minnesota — without Charlie Kirk.
Conservative commentator and writer Michael Knowles will step in for Kirk at the Turning Point USA event at Northrop auditorium.
Kirk, Turning Point’s founder, was assassinated on Sept. 10 during the first stop of the comeback tour at the Utah Valley University. A high-profile memorial service was held Sunday in Arizona, where President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance spoke in remembrance of Kirk’s legacy.
Kirk had been scheduled to speak at the U event.
“The event is on,” Knowles wrote in a post on X. “What was going to be a conversation between me and Charlie will now be a tribute to Charlie and an open forum for Q&A. The enemies of civilization will not succeed at killing his mission. They will not even succeed at killing his tour.”
Tickets are sold out for the free event.
Who is Michael Knowles?
Knowles, 35, is a conservative political commentator and author. He was born in New York and graduated from Yale University.
Host of podcast on the Daily Wire network
In 2016, Knowles was invited to join the Daily wire podcast as a regular guest and cultural correspondent on “The Andrew Klavan Show.” He’s hosted his own show, the daily political podcast “The Michael Knowles Show,” since 2017.
