The Oxford Union Society and Turning Point USA are different in a lot of ways. One is British and the other is American. Turning Point is an incubator for Republican activists, and the Oxford Union is a nonpartisan institution founded by Oxford University students in 1823, making it older than the Republican Party itself. But both are focused on hosting political debates for college students, often with the most sensational framing possible, so it was only a matter of time before the streams crossed.
On Tuesday, the union announced that its members had voted to remove President-elect George Abaraonye, an undergraduate, following a media storm over his comments on the assassination of Turning Point founder Charlie Kirk. In an Instagram post, Abaraonye accused outgoing President Moosa Harraj, a graduate student, of running a "compromised" vote. Abaraonye implied that the remote voting system had been rigged, and promised to contest the results.
