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March 11, 2021 —  Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Organizing Upgrade — Even before the semi-formal anointment of Trump as the GOP’s post-2020 top leader at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) Feb. 28, the twice-impeached former President had been awarded the crown. Former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, considered Trump’s most powerful opponent in the media-proclaimed “Republican Civil War,” had surrendered without a fight...

Trumps CPAC speech cements how far the conference — and the GOP — have fallen This Sunday, Trump will rally conservatives to himself, lacing every sentence with political arsenic. What’s past is prologue and Trump’s prologue with CPAC is a veritable roadmap to his 2021 appearance.Anjali Nair / MSNBC; AP; Getty; Reuters Feb. 28, 2021, 9:30 AM UTC By the time he’d left office, former President Donald Trump had successfully sold his “big lie” that the 2020 election was illegitimate t...

In all, at least nine sessions will focus on the former president’s unhappiness over the 2020 outcome and try to amplify his false claims to be the rightful winner. All of that poses a sharp contrast with the last time CPAC convened just after a Democratic president took office, said Republican strategist Alex Conant. In the winter of 2009, after President Obama’s inauguration, Rush Limbaugh keynoted the conference, exhorting conservatives to pick themselves up and look to the future, Conan...

When the annual Conservative Political Action Conference — CPAC for short — kicks off Thursday in Orlando, Fla., it might as well be called TPAC. That&#039

Officially, the theme of this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) is “America Uncanceled,” though a more honest theme would probably be “Lying About The 2020 Election.” From the seven “Protecting Elections” panels and speeches starting Friday morning to former President Donald Trump’s closing keynote speech on Sunday, it’s a safe bet that CPAC attendees will be hearing quite a few conspiracy theories about the results of November’s election. The annual eve...

It’s All About Trump: CPAC Seems Poised To Ignore Republican Identity Crisis

The four-day Conservative Political Action Conference opens in central Florida on Thursday for the first time in the post-Trump era, but the former president is still slated to be the star of the show.

comments The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) kicks off on Thursday, seven weeks and one day after Donald Trump sent a murderous mob to rampage through the Capitol in a final, violence-soaked bid to overturn the presidential election. The annual confab — which has become the central event of the year for Republican politics — not only has no distance from the events of Jan. 6, it is basically shaping up to be a celebration of both the man and the movement that inspired a fas...

Donald Trump will use CPAC comeback speech to repeat false claim he won the election and push for voting reforms after losing scores of court challenges to results Trump to use speech Sunday at the Conservative Political Action Conference to push repeated claims that he is the true victor of the 2020 presidential election  The conference will include several panel discussions focused on election fraud  One panel will include an appearance from Cleta Michell, a former Trump campaign attorney a...

Donald Trump may be spending his post-presidency golfing at Mar-a -Lago but he remains front and center in the hearts and minds of millions of Republican voters, as evidenced by the 46% who said in a new Suffolk University/ USA Today poll released over the weekend that they would join a Trump Party if he decided to split off from the GOP. A whopping 80% of Republican respondents said they support punishing any Republicans in Congress who voted for Trump’s impeachment. He is still their Dear ...