(NewsNation) — Turning Point USA is holding an event tonight at the University of California, Berkeley, exactly two months after the assassination of TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk, who was initially set to headline the event.
Tonight is the last stop of Turning Point’s rebranded “This is The Turning Point” tour, a series of college campus visits that have continued even after Kirk was killed at the first stop of the tour at Utah Valley University in September.
The event will be hosted by the UC Berkeley TPUSA chapter and feature appearances from comedian Rob Schneider and Christian author Frank Turek. It’s set to kick off at 6:30 p.m. local time.
Since Kirk’s death, several prominent conservative figures have made appearances on the tour at universities across the country, including Vice President JD Vance and former Fox News host Tucker Carlson.
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Berkeley students protest TPUSA
Several protests are scheduled ahead of tonight’s event at the overwhelmingly progressive UC Berkeley campus.
Earlier this morning, four Berkeley students were arrested on campus while attempting to hang up an approximately five-foot-tall cardboard bug in protest of Turning Point and the event.
Last month, students at UVU gathered to protest the creation of a memorial on their school’s campus, where Kirk was fatally shot.
