Overview

• Thousands lined up hours before doors opened at State Farm Stadium, where organizers expect to fill the venue and have arranged overflow seating at nearby Desert Diamond Arena after online interest far exceeded capacity.
• Security is being led by the Secret Service with a DHS SEAR Level 1 designation, and police arrested an armed man near the stadium on Friday whom Turning Point USA later said had been conducting unsanctioned advance security for a guest.
• President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and senior officials including Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, Susie Wiles and Stephen Miller are scheduled to speak, along with Erika Kirk, newly elected CEO of Turning Point USA.
• Trump has said he will award Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom, while the national fallout includes disciplinary actions over celebratory posts and the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel’s show, drawing warnings from civil liberties groups about free speech.
• Tyler Robinson, 22, has been charged in the Sept. 10 shooting in Utah; prosecutors say they will pursue the death penalty and investigators cite texts indicating hostility toward Kirk’s views, with authorities saying the suspect acted alone.