JD Vance Says Becoming A Better Husband, Father Is Best Way To Honor Charlie Kirk

Vice President JD Vance said on Monday that the best way he can honor the legacy of his friend, Charlie Kirk, is to become a better husband and father.

Vance hosted Kirk’s popular podcast and radio show on Monday and shared some details of his conversation with Kirk’s wife, Erika, the day after the beloved conservative commentator was assassinated last week. The vice president said that he was struck by how Erika described her husband’s patience and love.

“When I first met Erika … she gave me a hug and she was heartbroken, as of course she would be, and she said that she loved him so much,” Vance said, adding, “I said, ‘Erika, he loved you so much. He died way too young, but he died a happy man because of you, because of the family that you gave him, because of the home and the life that you guys had built together.”

Kirk, the 31-year-old conservative icon who was killed by an assassin’s bullet at Utah Valley University last Wednesday, also leaves behind two small children. Vance said that he spent around an hour with Erika, discussing some of their favorite memories of Kirk.

“And she said something to me that I will never forget,” Vance added. “She said to me that Charlie never raised his voice, never cussed at her, was never cross or mean-spirited to her. I’m a husband. I’m proud of being a husband. I think that on the great balance of things that I’m a pretty good husband, but I could never say that I was never unpleasant with my wife. I could never say that I’ve never raised my voice to my wife.”

“I took from that moment that I needed to be a better husband and I needed to be a better father,” the vice president said. “All of these moments that I’ve shared just in 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 realize that all of these moments that I get to have, Charlie isn’t able to have them anymore. And Charlie’s kids and his beautiful wife are not able to have them anymore.”

“Maybe the best way that I can honor my dear friend is to be the best husband that I can be, to be the kind of husband to my wife that he was to his,” Vance continued.

JD Vance shares that he is honoring Charlie Kirk by being a better husband and father.

“All of these moments that I get to have, Charlie isn’t able to have them anymore…The best way that I can honor my dear friend is to be the best husband that I can be…” pic.twitter.com/K7bIVeExmX

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The vice president and second lady traveled to be with Kirk’s grieving family in Utah after the assassination before accompanying Kirk’s casket aboard Air Force Two back to his home state of Arizona.