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Erika Kirk is chief executive officer and board chair of Turning Point USA, the conservative student organization her husband, Charlie Kirk, founded. Its board elected her in September 2025, after he was shot and killed at Utah Valley University. Born Erika Frantzve, she studied political science at Arizona State University and was Miss Arizona USA in 2012.
We have documented 1 statement by Erika Kirk, in 1 case. Each statement below gives the quotation, its original source and a link to the full case.
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Role at the time: Chief executive of Turning Point USA, posting on her X account
Condemned
Statement summary
Quoting Fox News's clip of El-Sayed's remark, Kirk writes that there is no Arab America and that there is only the United States of America.
“There is no “Arab America.” There is only the United States of America.”
Read the original post (opens in a new tab)Erika Kirk's X post saying there is no Arab America · Erika KirkX post of Nov. 8, 2026, 01:34 UTC, full text, quoting Fox News's post of the clip
Why we used this label
Kirk rejects the idea of an Arab America that El-Sayed's remark names and says there is only the United States of America, which condemns the remark.
Three days after his election, Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed told an Arab American summit that Michigan is the capital of Arab America. Erika Kirk, Laura Loomer and Nancy Mace replied that there is no Arab America. Arab America said the line was not literal.
