Vance Hosts Kirk’s Show, Discusses Impact of Fatherhood and Marriage

Charlie Kirk inspired him to be a better husband and father, JD Vance declared Monday.

In an emotional segment of Vance hosting Charlie Kirk’s show, the vice president reflected on the importance of fatherhood and the tragedy of Kirk’s wife and children losing their husband/dad so suddenly and violently.

Only a week ago, 31-year-old Charlie Kirk was hosting his own show, with the prospect of years of work and family ahead. But last Wednesday, a crazy leftist shot Kirk in the neck at Utah Valley University and killed him. Vance, who credits Kirk with helping further his own career and who transported Kirk’s body back in a casket on Air Force Two to Arizona, reflected on the “heartbreaking” but “amazing” meeting he had with Charlie’s widow.

Vance praised the “courage” of Erika Kirk, an “incredibly brave soul,” and said he had told her how Kirk died too young, “but he died a happy man because of you, because the family that you gave him, because of the home and the life that you guys had built together. And we sat for about an hour, and we talked about Charlie.” Even though Vance is “a person who literally speaks for a living,” he had a hard time finding words of consolation.

“My wife was there,” Vance stated. “And [Erika] said to me that Charlie never raised his voice, that he never cussed at her, that he was never cross or mean-spirited to her.” That is a genuinely exceptional tribute, and Vance admitted that though he is “proud of being a husband, [and] I think that on the great balance of things, that I'm a pretty good husband, but I can never say that I was never unpleasant with my wife. I can never say that I've never raised my voice to my wife.” Struck, Vance declared:

I took from that moment that I needed to be a better husband and I needed to be a better father, because of all these moments that I shared just the last few days, the books that I've read to my kids, going up to their bedroom and kissing them and hugging them before bed. I just realized that all of these moments that I get to have, Charlie is not able to have them anymore, and Charlie's kids and his beautiful wife are not able to have them anymore. And maybe the best way that I can contribute, and the best way that I could honor my dear friend, is the be the best husband that I can be to be the kind of husband to my wife that he was to his.

Indeed, as Vance remembered, Kirk told the young people who were such fans of his that the “most important thing [one] could do is not vote for a particular candidate, it was to become, if you were a young man, [to be] a husband and a father. He talked about the joy that came from fatherhood, the joy that came from raising a family and being part of of their growth and their development, and all the incredible things that happen when you get to be a husband and father.”

Vance aims to honor Charlie by being an even better husband and father, and he also has other plans to continue Kirk’s legacy and bring both Kirk’s killer and other violent leftist domestic terrorists to justice.

Therefore, Vance promised, “We're going to talk about how to dismantle [leftist extremism] and how to bring real unity, real unity that can only come when we tell the truth and everybody knows that they can speak their mind about the issues of the day without being cut down by a murderer's gun.” Charlie Kirk was assassinated for speaking the truth. We cannot allow ourselves to be frightened out of speaking the truth for which he gave his life.

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