Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest conference ended with leader Erika Kirk publicly endorsing Vice President JD Vance, signaling the youth group’s early preference for a post‑Trump nominee and energizing its nationwide volunteer network. The endorsement came amid visible factional tensions at the four‑day event, where debates over antisemitism and deplatforming exposed fractures within conservative campus activism and the broader MAGA coalition. Vance used the platform to reject ideological 'purity tests,' telling audiences the conservative movement should be broad as long as members 'love America.' Speakers including Ben Shapiro and Tucker Carlson clashed with one another over bounds of acceptable discourse, illustrating governance challenges for campus-oriented political organizations. Erika Kirk's endorsement was framed as strategically valuable because Turning Point mobilizes students in early primary states. For colleges and student-affairs leaders, the convention underscores a shift in campus political organizing: national political operatives are increasingly leveraging student networks and high‑profile endorsements to shape candidate trajectories. Universities should prepare for heightened external political influence on campus events, volunteers being recruited for campaign labor, and escalated reputational and safety considerations tied to partisan gatherings.