One Crenshaw antagonist kicked off the Q&A by asking Crenshaw, a Navy veteran, about the 1967 Israeli attack on the USS Liberty that left 34 crew members dead. Inquiries in the United States and Israel found that the attack was an accident, but it has become a popular talking point for Fuentes and his supporters.

“What do you call yourselves?” Crenshaw responded. “The ‘groppers’? It’s a very strange name. These guys are the Alt Right 2.0.”

As Crenshaw faced increasingly hostile questioning, friendly audience members tried to create a separate question line to get around Crenshaw’s critics. As the event ended, Gionet and his allies attempted to reach Crenshaw at the stage but were blocked by Turning Point members.

Fuentes’ feud with Turning Point appears to date back to at least March, when he tried to give a speech at Iowa State University on a purported invite from a Turning Point chapter there. Then, in September, Turning Point fired one of its “ambassadors,” MAGA personality Ashley St. Clair, after she appeared in a picture smiling with Fuentes and other far-right internet personalities. In late October, Fuentes tried to take a picture with Kirk—apparently in an attempt to embarrass him—before being stopped by security guards.