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Erika Kirk was forced to ad-lib the opening of her headliner address at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest after her prepared remarks vanished from her iPad.
“The enemy has thrown a lot of curve balls at us today,” she mused. “And one of them is the fact that my entire speech has been wiped because my iPad won’t even turn on.”
“So that’s a fun technical difficulty that we can figure out. So we’re just going to wing it.”
Undeterred, Kirk carried on with her speech, riffing about various anecdotes from her late husband. At one point, a staffer brought over a sheet of paper with some stats she intended to read.
After bouncing around different anecdotes while walking around on stage in her sparkling gold attire, the widow began to delve into the stats about Turning Point USA’s recent successes.
“All 50 states represented,” she said, referring to attendance at AmericaFest. “We have 25 countries represented, plus Puerto Rico. But I have the list here. Don’t worry, guys, Egypt is not on the list.”
The joke was a not-so-subtle knock at right-wing podcaster Candace Owens, who has peddled conspiracy theories about Charlie Kirk’s assassination, including her eyebrow-raising claims that an Egyptian plane was tracking Erika.
“Oh, how funny. I say Egypt and my iPad turns on,” Erika remarked after finishing rattling through the stats.
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