Byron York predicts TPUSA will find it ‘hard to continue’ after being ‘built on the talents’ of Charlie Kirk

Published September 24, 2025 10:36am ET



Washington Examiner Chief Political Correspondent Byron York suggested Turning Point USA will struggle to replace the “very unique individual” that was Charlie Kirk for its head.

“I think that all of the admiring testimony and discussion of him in the past two weeks has really suggested this was a very unique individual,” York said on the Hugh Hewitt Show on Wednesday. “It’s really hard to continue an organization that is built on the talents of an extremely unique individual.”

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