Nate Morris vows to honor assassinated Charlie Kirk in Kentucky Senate race

EXCLUSIVE – Nate Morris says that the assassination last week of her friend Charlie Kirk was a “punch”.

But Kentucky’s republican businessman, who was the last Senate candidate, Kirk, approved and joined the campaign path before being killed and killed, said in an exclusive national interview with Fox News Digital that “we take the coat for Charlie”.

And Morris, one of the three main candidates in the running for the republican appointment in the 2026 race to succeed in retiring, the former head of the Senate of the Senate, Mitch McConnell, of Kentucky, stressed: “We are going to honor him by putting an incredible campaign and winning this thing.”

Morris said that when he was considering a race for the Senate, “I was lucky to meet Charlie and know him. And, you know, he didn’t know Adam. He really knew nothing about me, except that I was a business guy, and I was looking at the race.

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The candidate of the Republican Senate, Nate Morris of Kentucky, on the left, is joined by the co -founder of Turning Point USA Charlie Kirk at the launch of the Senate of Morris campaign, the launch of the Senate on June 30, 2025, in Shepherdsville, Kentucky (Nate Morris campaign)

“I think that Charlie’s superpower was his ability to listen to and give people the opportunity to share what they thought,” said Morris. “He certainly did it for me, and he left motivated to help me, which was incredible to have this kind of support from the start.”

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Kirk, the Brand Conservative Fire, activist, superstar of the right media, co-founder of the influential organization of Turning Point USA and allied advisor of President Donald Trump, Vice-President JD Vance and Donald Trump Jr., invited Morris in his radio program.

And in June, he joined Morris during a country launch event just south of Louisville, Kentucky.

The conservative co -founder of Rock Star and Turning Point USA Charlie Kirk, on the right, joins Nate Morris while the businessman launches a republican campaign 2026 for the Senate in Shepherdsville, Ky., June 30, 2025. (Nate Morris campaign)

“It was such a blow in the arm of our countryside. I mean, you could not ask anything more,” said Morris. “When you launch something like an American Senate campaign, an emblematic leader like Charlie, who believes in you and believes in your vision, it changes everything. And that changes the way you look at the race. It gives you confidence that I think very few candidates have the chance to get.”

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Morris added that “Charlie was everything in this campaign from the start, and I think it also set the tone and showed the Conservatives what type of campaign we will lead.

“But, too, he spoke for me, my beliefs and my character before many people knew me,” said Morris. “I run as a foreigner. I am not a career politician. I have never run for an office before, and having Charlie in this campaign has changed everything for us.”

The candidates at the Kentucky Gop Nate Morris, representative Andy Barr and Daniel Cameron, from left to right. (Images Jon Cherry / Getty for Concordia; Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call; Ryan C. Hermens / Lexington Herald-Leader)

Morris is confronted with his colleagues pretending to be major Andy Barr and the former prosecutor general of Kentucky and the candidate of the governor in 2023, Daniel Cameron, in an increasing field of candidates in a republican race which becomes fuel.

“The assassination of Charlie Kirk is a national shame and an awakening for America. Enough enough. I continue to pray for Charlie’s family during this unspeakable tragedy,” wrote Barr in the hours that followed the kirk murder.

And Cameron, this week, said that in “Kirk’s honor, we will continue to defend the truth and the founding ideals of this nation”.

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Following Kirk’s ball death while speaking to students from the University of Utah Valley, Morris said he was more motivated than ever to win the Senate race.

“I had a burning desire from the moment I started thinking about this race that I had the impression of having to enter. I felt that with each fiber of my being,” he said. “Let me tell you, since it happened, this fire is like a fire that I cannot describe. We must win, and we must honor Charlie and what he did for us. We have no choice.”