Erika Kirk and Donald Trump had very different memorial messages

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

87% : Trump ended his 40-minute speech on a note of gratitude: "So, Charlie, we all want to thank you.
81% : I want to know them and love them, and I want to reach them and try and lead them into a great way of life in our country,'" Trump said.
73% : " "Remember that when you see they all have the same beautifully printed sign -- every sign is identical, comes out of a top-level print shop," Trump added.
64% : He brought together Donald Trump, Bobby Kennedy right here in the great state of Arizona one year ago.
56% : He wanted the best for them." "That's where I disagreed with Charlie," Trump said.
54% : In his speech, Trump discussed "radicals and their allies in the media" who "tried to silence Charlie for a simple reason because he was winning, and he was winning big." "He was taking over college campuses -- colleges that had, in theory, only very liberal or, as they like to say, progressive," Trump said.
38% : " He told the crowd that the Department of Justice was "investigating networks of radical left maniacs who fund, organize, fuel and perpetrate political violence.
36% : The Department of Justice is also investigating networks of radical left maniacs who fund organized fuel and perpetrate political violence and we think we know who many of them are.
33% : "Shortly before Charlie arrived on campus the day he was assassinated, a staff member texted him that there were many critics and students who were opposed to his views, and rather strenuously, in the crowd," Trump said.
31% : While both painted the same picture of who Charlie Kirk was, what he stood for and what his Christian legacy would be, Trump struck a defiant tone against the "radical left" and "antifa terrorists."
30% : He added, "But now Erika can talk to me and the whole group and maybe they can convince me that that's not right, but I can't stand my opponent." "Charlie's angry," Trump continued.
30% : And we can use that for Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, all of these things that we fight so hard for.
29% : " "At one event, police had to build barricades to protect students from an angry mob of thugs," Trump said, alleging that "many of these people, by the way, are paid a lot of money to do this.
29% : " Trump later said: "Every single American should take a long, hard look at the twisted soul and dark spirit of anyone who would want to kill a young man as good as Charlie -- to kill anybody, but to kill a man like this.
20% : " On Thursday, Trump said on Truth Social that he would designate antifa, a shorthand for the anti-fascist movement, a "major terrorist organization.
14% : " Trump criticized the people who "greeted Charlie Kirk's assassination with sick approval, excuses or even jubilation," calling them "major losers.

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