Turning Point USA Leader Predicts Political Shift on College Campuses in Coming Years
“The community is excited. I have tons and tons of people reaching out to me on Facebook, Instagram, everywhere you can imagine.”
The assassination of Charlie Kirk may end up having the opposite effect of what the killer intended. Kirk’s murder shined a national spotlight on Kirk and the massive organization he built in his short life, increasing interest across the country.
One leader in the group is predicting a seismic political shift on college campuses in a short time.
FOX News reports:
TPUSA leader predicts colleges will become conservative strongholds within 5 years
North Dakota will be the next stop on Turning Point USA’s (TPUSA) “This Is The Turning Point” tour. Dalton Nelson, the organization’s Midwest regional manager, spoke with Fox News Digital about the upcoming campus event being hosted at the University of North Dakota.
The nationwide tour has been drawing attention on college campuses across the country since TPUSA’s founder, Charlie Kirk, was assassinated at an on-campus event at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10.
Nelson said he’s predicting the event will be “packed.”
Nelson shared that there has been strong support and encouragement from both the campus and the community ahead of the event.
“It’s been mostly people being supportive, and it’s good feelings on campus for sure.”
Nelson didn’t express any concerns but said that security measures will be in place.
“The community has offered some officers. The school is having their full staff. They’ve offered a parking staff as well, because we’re expecting a full crowd. Turning Point brings security with us every time we go anywhere — at least for the big events, I should say. So from a security standpoint, things are looking great.”
I don’t know about conservative ‘strongholds,’ but even having a significant, openly conservative element on campus will improve the culture of many schools. There has been a huge political imbalance in higher education for far too long.
Check out the TPUSA crowd at Montana State University this week.
CHECKOUT THIS TURNOUT for the This Is the Turning Point Tour at Montana State University 🇺🇸@tpusastudents pic.twitter.com/RCvkpeXujC
— Turning Point USA (@TPUSA) October 8, 2025
Campus progressives in many places are going to try to resist this movement. We’re already seeing it.
From ABC News in Tennessee:
Student government association votes against Turning Point USA chapter at UTC
Students’ plans to register a Turning Point USA chapter at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga are on hold, at least for now, after the school’s Student Government Association voted against the proposal.
According to a Jay Blackman, Vice Chancellor for Communications and Marketing at UTC, the proposal will now make its way to the Dean of Students who holds final authority on whether to approve the registration or not.
Blackman noted, The Dean of Students’ decision will be made in accordance with University policy and the law. As with any student group, the University is working to ensure the students are appropriately supported as they navigate the process of registering a new student organization.
I don’t expect resistance to new TPUSA chapters will succeed at many schools. If there are enough students demanding the creation of these groups, they will flourish.
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Well I wish them luck. However as long as virtually all of the teachers and much of the administration is progressive they will continue to have a true struggle to achieve parity and acceptance.
I’m just hoping new chapters focus on conservativism in general and not simply Christian evangelism. Mark Halperin did an interview with three young chapter leaders and they definitely saw themselves as missionaries bringing The Word of God to the heathens. One young lady even framed it as a battle between Good and Evil. Charlie never hid his faith, but he also approached people and debated on a secular level.
Well said. Christian evangelism can be a major turn off if you’re not christian or not a practicing christian.
I’m sad to say that I think the Christian evangelical movement is going to hijack Turning Point.
Hopefully so and history is full of examples of the political pendulum swinging back from one side to the other.
Much of eastern Europe has rejected communism and it is likely that Reform will win in the next UK election. Better news is that the Reform PM will be backed by a populist party and members of Parliament. Thatcher was great but the Tories were establishment elite every bit as opposed to conservative/populist policies as were/are the Labor party.
A best-case scenario would be France, Germany, and the UK joining the populist movement crushing European dominated globalism. I could even see a scenario where Brazil and even Venezuela throw out their socialist governments and Latin America enjoys a period of economic prosperity and freedom.
it’s going to very interesting watching France and LePen; she will be the bell(e)weather of the direction of the EU
North Dakota had its own Charlie Kirk:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Cayler_Ellingson
Let us hope TPUSA’s North Dakota affiliates will honor his memory.
If it is a shift into Tucker Carlsonism (socialist economic policy, anti-American fake history of a similar sort to the left, a version of Christianity that is nothing more than hating Jews, and anti-Semitism as a core principal) it isn’t worth anything.
Carlson is simply addicted to throwing political tantrums, which endears him to the disaffected fringe, but has made him quite tiresome for most Conservatives. He will always play to his hero worshiping faction of True Believers rather than attempt to enlarge his following because he craves cultish adulation above credibility. His metamorphosis into an iconoclastic caricature has been disappointing, but seems inexorable. Too bad, because he used to make considerable sense,
am encouraged by their efforts, whether evangelical or not
Charlie was astute enough to realize that we’re not all of us in the same boat—is the storm we share