Charlie Kirk, who runs Turning Point USA, speaks at a rally in Chandler, Ariz., on Nov. 1. (Caitlin O’Hara for The Washington Post)As the 2024 presidential election cycle gets underway, the political arm of Turning Point USA, the influential right-wing nonprofit run by Charlie Kirk, is losing a key asset: Students for Trump. The changes Bowyer floated would have included removing the Trump name and renaming the accounts as official Turning Point properties. With those resources, Turning Point grew into a conservative influence machine involving political jamborees, podcasts, biblical citizenship classes and K-12 curriculum. Turning Point Action’s own social media accounts, meanwhile, maintain more modest activities, with fewer than 10,000 followers on Twitter.
