Conservative speakers vow to continue after Charlie Kirk assassination

After the assassination of the conservative commentator, Charlie Kirk sent shock waves across the political scene this week, Fox News spoke to many prominent conservative speakers about the future of the movement and the impact of Kirk’s legacy and style.

“The conservatives will not be silenced,” said Heather Mac Donald, a colleague of Thomas W. Smith at the Manhattan Institute and a shareholder in City Journal, adding that Kirk was “unknown” until the conservatives controlled “simulating his courage.”

The column writer and commentator Bethani Mandel told the Kirk’s assassination that “at all an attempt to try to silence the conservatives” and that “we have to resist the temptation to allow this.”

“We need to continue speaking and hitting Charlie’s message, but its methodology,” Mandel said.

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Kirk was assassinated on Wednesday while talking to thousands of students at the University of Utah Valley when a gunman on the roof of one shot, and Kirk hit the neck.

Kirk was transferred to Timbanogos Regional Hospital, where he announced his death, which prompted the flow of support from conservatives all over the world, including president Trump, who described the killing as a “dark moment for America.”

On Friday, the authorities announced that they had arrested a suspect, Tyler Robinson, a Utah resident of Utah, 22.

“Charlie Kerk was a good man,” John Ashbrok, the Conservative Podcast Strait, told Fox News Digital. “His legacy will continue because none of us will not forget his leadership or the voice he presented to millions of ordinary people throughout this country.”

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Conservative activist Charlie Kerk discusses with students during the CSUN’s return tour in Northridge, California, on March 6, 2025. (Pictures of Benjamin Hanson/Middle East/AFP via Getty Images)

Mc Donald Fox News told the digital that it was “difficult to imagine” Kerk’s killing for “any other reason, but it was breaking an anti -Western ideology on the campus and beyond universities.”

Mc Donald said: “It was unfortunately that he was killed on a university campus, and he was not even known for his leftist tendencies, as colleges are a bed of a seed of the mutrator of modern speech and the wrong equations that contradict political speech = hate speech and may overcome hate speech – to be fine by any necessary means.”

“It seems that the killer has agreed with these potential observers. The focus has flourished on the self and the historical and moral ignorance of the distorted American students to something more harmful, as Luigi’s overpowering has already shown.”

To move forward, in terms of security in the events of prominent conservative speakers, Mandal called on universities and cities that “claim to be interested in the future of America and civil discourse” to intensify and “ensure sufficient security”.

“We should not pay the tax in the form of security in order to share our political opinions safely,” Mandel told Fox News Digital.

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Investigators in a registered area in Urim, Utah, are discussing Thursday, September 11, 2025. It is believed that the research is linked to the search for evidence in the assassination of Charlie Kerk yesterday during a career in UVU. (Derk for Fox News Digital)

Conservatives gathered about Kirk’s style of speaking publicly and exchanging ideas with those who disagree, including the prominent influencer Bin Shapiru who Books on x That “we will never stop discussing and discussing.”

“We will never stop defending what America is and what it should be,” Shapiro said, adding that he intends to continue speaking in colleges throughout the country despite the underlying dangers.

Mc Donald Fox News told the digital, “It is clichés and self -service to say: They fear us because we are profitable, but it is assumed that a baptized need for someone losing an issue anyway. Kerk was afraid because he was winning.”