Andy Surabian says that Charlie Kirk was one of the some after the campus assassination

A close friend and colleague from Charlie Kirk said that the conservative leader and the media star “was one of the one” and the doubts he will ever be replaced.

But asked questions about a vacuum in the conservative movement, Andy Surabian, who is one of the main political advisers of Vice-President JD Vance and Donald Trump Jr., told Fox News Digital that Kirk “inspired a generation of young conservatives who have the potential to become someone like Charlie Kirk”.

Kirk, who was shot dead last Wednesday during a university campus event in Utah, was one of the main conservative activists, warriors of culture and the media for millions of Maga and right followers.

A crucial ally for President Donald Trump, Vance and Donald Trump Jr., Kirk transformed the organization of conservative youth Turning Point USA that he co -founded at 18 years in an extremely influential political power and an electoral participation machine for Trump in the presidential election last year.

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From left to right: Vice-President JD Vance, Donald Trump Jr., Republican strategist Andy Surabian and the co-founder of Turning Point USA and conservative chief Charlie Kirk. (JD vance social media post)

“I don’t think there is a singular person who will never replace Charlie Kirk,” said Surabian.

But emphasizing Kirk’s inspiration to a generation of young conservatives, Surabian said: “This is the thing that Charlie would be the most proud, it is the thing that makes me so proud of Charlie.”

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Surabian said he and Kirk met for the first time in 2018 and quickly became “generational batteries”.

“We constantly check things with each other …” There was an implicit confidence. “

In an article on social networks, Surabian wrote that he and Kirk “quickly linked to our political views and our similar proximity in age, and finally developed a narrow friendship. We always had the back of the other. If I needed help, I knew he would always be there for me. If he needed something, I had always had a candidate.

Surabian said Kirk was the person who had presented Vance to him, before Vance’s successful campaign in 2022 for the Senate in Ohio.

Vice-president JD Vance goes to Air Force Two alongside the Charlie Kirk coffin on the Tarmac at Salt Lake City on Thursday. (Fox News / Pool)

“I was skeptical, but since Charlie was garmeled for him, I was on the phone with JD in the hour. 90 minutes later, after JD and I had struck him and decided to work together, Charlie told me with enthusiasm that I would not regret it – and he was certainly right,” Surabian wrote.

Addressing Fox News, Surabian has listed the many political attributes of Kirks.

“Charlie was a formidable collection of funds. He was loved by donors. Charlie was extremely charismatic and was extremely impressive in the debates. Charlie was very talented to make media. He was a great animator of talk-show. Charlie understood how to organize the students of Pr. Come who can bring all these things together like Charlie gathered,” said Surabe.

“It doesn’t matter that, in addition to all that, he was very intelligent. And the most important of everyone, he was a fundamentally decent person,” added Surabian.

The Arizonans mourn the founder of Turning Point USA, Charlie Kirk, outside the registered office of Turning Point USA on September 12, 2025 in Phoenix, Arizona. President Donald Trump announced on Friday that the suspect was arrested for the murder of right -wing activist Charlie Kirk after a huge manhunt. (Charly Triballeau / AFP via Getty Images)

While Kirk had already accomplished a lot at the age of 31, Surabian predicted that his friend would have had many chapters to come.

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“Despite his influence, despite his famous, I absolutely believe that he was still at the start of his ascent and not at the end,” he said.

And Surabian said Kirk “came to a place where, in a few years, I think he had the potential to be the next Rush Limbaugh, and when I say that, whoever understands the influence that Rush Limbaugh had on the Conservative Movement knows what a big declaration is.”