Overview
- The Phoenix gathering drew roughly 31,000 attendees, the first major Turning Point USA event since Charlie Kirk’s September assassination.
- Ben Shapiro warned about “charlatans” in the movement, prompting Steve Bannon to fire back by calling him “a cancer that spreads.”
- J.D. Vance dominated the program with a message of Christian identity and tougher immigration enforcement, asserting that Americans should not have to apologize for being white.
- Closing the event, Vance urged activists to drop internal purity tests and refocus their efforts on defeating Democrats.
- Debates zeroed in on antisemitism, conspiracy theories and nativist ideas like “Americans of stock,” which Vivek Ramaswamy rejected.