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Vice-president was in confessional mode as he eulogized his friend in Arizona – but speech could have political utility tooJD Vance went into confessional mode. “I was telling somebody backstage that I always felt a little uncomfortable talking about my faith in public,” he said. “As much as I love the Lord, and as much as it was an important part of my life, I have talked more about Jesus Christ in the past two weeks than I have my entire time in public life.”The crowd at rightwing political activist Charlie Kirk’s memorial service at a football stadium in Glendale,

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US president to speak at event in Glendale, Arizona, as number of rightwing commentators including Steve Bannon and Elon Musk attendStudents who debated with Kirk: ‘His goal was to defeat us’US right claimed free speech was sacred – until the Charlie Kirk killingChristian nationalists in the US are positioning Charlie Kirk as a martyr for their movement, one that has grown in popularity and whose rise was intertwined with Kirk’s own political ascent.After Kirk’s killing, his widow, Erika Kirk, wrote on social media that the “world is evil”, but God “so good”. The “sound of this widow weeping throughout this