PHOENIX—In the final minutes of Turning Point USA’s sometimes fractious AmericaFest, Vice President JD Vance called for something short of a truce: He urged conservatives to not try to expel each other from conservatism.
“I didn’t bring a list of conservatives to denounce or deplatform,” Vance said in his Dec. 21 speech, which capped off the first AmericaFest that Turning Point USA (TPUSA) has put on since the assassination of one of the organization’s founders, Charlie Kirk, on Sept. 10, 2025.
