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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
Politics
Stephanie Cruz

Women Lead Race to Replace Charlie Kirk Media Void as Alex Clark and Brett Cooper Take the Lead

Charlie Kirk with his wife Erika, now CEO of Turning Point USA, at the heart of the conservative media world he built. (Credit: IG/ mrserikakirk)

One year after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the fastest-growing voices competing to inherit his audience are, according to a new Newsweek analysis, women.

The magazine scored a field of candidates out of 100 across five weighted measures and placed podcaster Alex Clark at the top with 93.4, followed by Brett Cooper on 81.3, Riley Gaines on 80.2, Isabel Brown on 78.1, and Amala Ekpunobi on 68.6. Every name in the top five is a woman working in podcasting and social media, the platforms Kirk helped define for the American right.

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