Vice President Vance canceled a scheduled Turning Point USA event at Iowa State after Erika Kirk pulled out of a similar Georgia event weeks earlier citing security concerns—her husband Charlie Kirk, TPUSA's co-founder, was killed at a TPUSA event in September 2025. TPUSA attributed Vance's cancellation to scheduling conflicts rather than security issues, though the timing follows both the Georgia embarrassment (where Vance spoke to largely empty seats and faced heckling about the Iran war) and the recent assassination attempt on Trump at the White House Correspondents dinner. Kirk has been dealing with ongoing security threats since her husband's death, which she cited as her reason for withdrawing from the joint appearance.