Candace Owens has claimed that students at Nampa Christian School in Idaho were marked absent if they did not attend a speech by Erika Kirk, escalating a dispute over whether pupils were genuinely given a choice to attend the Turning Point USA event.
Owens raised the allegation after an anonymous parent reportedly contacted her and claimed that the assembly was not voluntary. She shared the account while challenging Blake Neff, a producer of The Charlie Kirk Show, and Turning Point USA over their description of the event.