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Presidential candidates and possible candidates making their pitches. chief washington correspondent mike emanuel has a wrap-up this evening. >> its nearly 11 months until iowa republicans go to caucus and, still, a number of likely presidential candidates spend spent the weekend at high profile political events. former president trump was the headliner at cpac in maryland emphasizing more work to do. >> thats why im standing before you because we are going to finish what we started. we started ...

Also, there was a lot of talk about ratcheting up protectionism against china. reagan revolution was a lot on free markets, free trade. thats not something that the core base of the republican party is interested in at all right now. a lot of protectionist fervor at cpac. cultural issues. there were people on the main stage at a republican conservative conference calling for defunding the fbi. it speaks to the political passions involved there. remember, when you look at the speakers at cpac, it...

>> indeed. >> bret: mike, thanks. lets bring in fox news chief political analyst brit hume. good evening, brit. >> >> brit: good evening, bret. >> bret: we had these speeches. i want to play a soundbite from former president trump at cpac and take a listen. >> anyone else will be intimidated, bought off, blackmailed or ripped to shah reds. i alone will never retreat and that is why we must stand together and meet charge. we have to charge full speed ahead. >> bret: he went on to win that cpac po...

At "axios a.m." is the publisher of "axios"axios," nick johnston. good morning. what is the 1 big thing today? >> cpac exposes a conservative rift. conservative republicans had their conservative political action committee down the road. the rhetoric shows how increasingly fractured the republican party is getting about the bedrock principles that formed the start of the reagan revolution. cpac sees itself as the heirs to the reagan legacy, and he ran on muscular intervention of foreign policy, ...

One of Trumps favorite measures of success isnt measuring up.

>> it is, but the public obviously knows that if desantis is going to do this and be successful, hes going to have to go after trump, hes going to have to defeat him and do it in a way that is still polite to the an extent. but he understands theres a threat here, and right now hes focused on the substance of his record instead the of being drawn into a battle with donald trump which is a lose-lose for him. because, again, it will alienate the base. and just being at k pac and speaking to these ...

Behind all the craziness is a movement that has given up on truth and respecting democracy.

The unsuccessful Arizona gubernatorial candidate won a straw poll at CPAC for the GOP vice presidential pick.

Michael Reagan, chairman and president of The Reagan Legacy Foundation, questioned the Arizona Republicans appearance at CPAC.

Ron desantis at 20%. karl, you have talked about who the nominee should or shouldnt be or may or may not be. this is just one slice, this is one straw poll that we knew was going to go this way, but our polling showed that president trump continues to dominate the primary field. >> yeah. hes the front-runner. its interesting, july 21 he was 70% at cpac, and august 22 in dallas at c pablo he was 69 -- cpac and now hes 60 -- shannon: 62. >> 62. shoon san hes not going to want to give up -- >> and ...