Tens of thousands of mourners, many in red MAGA hats, gathered around Glendale, Arizona's State Farm Stadium in Sunday's pre-dawn hours to honor slain conservative firebrand Charlie Kirk.
Washington emptied much of the executive branch for the event, with President Donald Trump, Vice-President JD Vance, and others.
The event rates the top-level security usually reserved for events like the Super Bowl, with Homeland Security, FBI, local police and even TSA manning the magnetometers, a security level ramped up after police arrested a man with a gun and knife inside the arena the day before the event.
“It’s a watershed moment in American history. We haven’t had something happen like this since the assassination of John F. Kennedy or Martin Luther King. So I knew it was going to be a moment in history,” says Richard Guerra, whose wife, Haeven Guerra, is a senior field representative for the Kirk-founded political group Turning Point USA. “He wasn’t a politician. He wasn’t a president. This was a normal guy who spoke the truth and now it’s started a revival.”
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