{"id":2275571,"date":"2026-02-10T10:59:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T10:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2275571"},"modified":"2026-02-10T10:59:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T10:59:26","slug":"candace-owens-claims-turning-point-faked-alternative-halftime-views-celebrity-news-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/candace-owens-claims-turning-point-faked-alternative-halftime-views-celebrity-news-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"Candace Owens claims Turning Point faked alternative halftime views &#8211; Celebrity News &#8211; Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Candace Owens has accused Turning Point USA of faking the viewing figures for their All-American Halftime Show, which aired during the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Taking to X on Sunday, February 8, Candace, 36, aired her concerns about the organization, founded by murdered conservative activist Charlie Kirk, fabricating viewership numbers for its <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" target=\"_blank\">Super Bowl<\/a> halftime show, which aired as a rival to the official show, performed by Bad Bunny. Turning Point said their show, headlined by Kid Rock, achieved 5 million viewers live across its social media platforms.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Candace shared an earlier post on the social media site<span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"> that showed a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> account\u2019s viewer numbers at just under 6,000<\/span> and wrote, \u201cThe problem with people who have a lot of money they didn\u2019t earn is that they tend to have no idea how stuff actually works.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>She then continued in a second post, \u201cWe have an organization that scammed its views by paying platform advertisers, followed by influencers to pretend they broke records.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Blake Neff, who produced The Charlie Kirk Show before he was assassinated in September 2025, shared on X earlier in the evening, \u201cTPUSA All-American Halftime Show \u2026 Over 5 million simultaneous on TPUSA YT [YouTube]. Almost 1 million on Charlie Kirk\u2019s YT. 200k on Magno News YT. 220k on TPUSA Rumble. 15k CK Rumble.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>He then referred to Bad Bunny&#8217;s show as he continued, \u201cThe entire audience on RAV. And noticeably, the audience kept going up throughout the competing show.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Candace also shared her opinion on Bad Bunny&#8217;s offering as she confessed, \u201cI am sorry, but I hate both options.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>She added, &#8220;We have a halftime show presented without a word of English spoken. The left vs .right grift is actually boring now. What exactly are we doing here, America?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Candace previously worked as a communications director for Turning Point USA between 2017 to 2019, and was friends with Charlie before his death. They first met in 2017 while both were focused on advancing their respective political careers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>However, despite her friendship with Charlie, Candace did not feel the same way about his wife. She also publicly admitted feeling that Tyler Robinson, who was arrested over Charlie&#8217;s murder, was wrongfully accused.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>She later published what was allegedly a leaked conference call recording of Erika Kirk, supposedly recorded 12 days after Charlie\u2019s death. The audio depicts Erika praising members of the Turning Point USA team for their recent successes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Candace said of the recording, \u201cWe are not even two weeks after watching your husband be assassinated. We\u2019re talking about numbers and metrics that have been hit.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Erika, who is now the CEO of Turning Point USA after Charlie&#8217;s death, condemned the recording\u2019s release and stated that she wanted Candace to stop peddling conspiracy theories about Charlie\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The pair ultimately met in December 2025 to try and smooth out their differences, following which both women took to their individual X accounts to call the four-and-a-half-hour discussion \u201cproductive.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.the-express.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Candace Owens has accused Turning Point USA of faking the viewing figures for their All-American Halftime Show, which aired during the Super Bowl. Taking to X on Sunday, February 8, Candace, 36, aired her concerns about the organization, founded by murdered conservative activist Charlie Kirk, fabricating viewership numbers for its Super Bowl halftime show, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2275572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[375879,340116,346955,372757,368537,339159],"class_list":["post-2275571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-candace-owens","tag-charlie-kirk","tag-super-bowl","tag-super-bowl-halftime-show","tag-turning-point-usa","tag-tv-section"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Candace-Owens-claims-Turning-Point-faked-alternative-halftime-views.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2275571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2275573,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275571\/revisions\/2275573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2275572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2275571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2275571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2275571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}