Has Erika Kirk responded to Candace Owens' statement?
Executive summary
Yes — Erika Kirk has publicly and privately responded to Candace Owens’ statements: she agreed to meet Owens privately and has issued public statements asking Owens to stop spreading conspiracy allegations while emphasizing she wants to move past the public drama; meanwhile Owens has continued to air leaked audio and press the dispute [1] [2] [3] [4].
1. Erika agreed to take the fight off social media and meet Owens privately
After a period of public back-and-forth, Erika Kirk posted that she and Candace Owens had agreed to pause public livestreams, tweets and other public confrontations and instead meet privately to discuss Owens’ allegations, with Kirk saying she “look[s] forward to a productive conversation” — a move widely reported as an attempt to de-escalate the public spectacle [1].
2. Kirk’s public posture: calm, constrained, and asking for an end to conspiracies
When Erika Kirk later spoke publicly about the meeting and the broader dispute, outlets reported she broke her silence with a measured message — asking Owens to stop spreading conspiracy claims and signaling she was “done with the noise,” framing her response as one of closure and an effort to move the organization and herself forward after her husband’s death [2] [3].
3. Owens has not relented; she kept amplifying leaked material
Despite Kirk’s move to negotiate privately and her public entreaties, Candace Owens continued to publish and comment on alleged internal audio and video, airing a leaked conference call and other clips on her platforms and needle-like podcast episodes — actions that outlets documented as ongoing pressure on Kirk and Turning Point USA even after the private meeting was announced [5] [4] [6].
4. Media framing and the agendas behind the coverage
Reporting across outlets shows two competing agendas: Kirk’s team and sympathetic outlets framed her responses as sober leadership and a desire to end public spectacle [1] [3], while Owens and her supporters framed the leaks and public scrutiny as a defense of accountability and a refusal to accept official narratives, with some coverage — particularly tabloids and partisan sites — amplifying the most sensational elements like laughter or “event of the century” soundbites [7] [8] [6]. Readers should note that some outlets cited here are tabloids or opinion-driven, which shapes which clips and quotes they emphasize [9] [8].
5. What the record shows — and what remains unclear
The contemporaneous record plainly shows Erika Kirk responded: she arranged to meet Owens privately, publicly urged an end to conspiracy-spreading, and presented herself as stepping away from public drama [1] [2] [3]. What these sources do not fully establish — and where reporting diverges — is the full content and outcome of the private meeting, whether Owens altered her core claims after meeting Kirk, and how Turning Point USA’s internal personnel decisions cited by Owens were resolved; several outlets document Owens continuing to air leaked materials after the meeting, suggesting the dispute did not immediately end [4] [5] [6].
6. Bottom line for readers following the feud
Erika Kirk has indeed responded to Candace Owens: first by seeking to move the exchange from public to private and later by publicly asking Owens to stop circulating conspiracy claims and saying she wanted to be done with the noise; Owens, for her part, maintained pressure by releasing alleged internal audio and continuing to question aspects of the official account, prolonging the public dispute [1] [2] [5] [4]. Reporting remains fragmented across outlets with varying editorial slants, and concrete details about the private meeting’s resolution and any factual corrections to Owens’ claims are not fully documented in the materials cited here.