all. thank you for watching morning joe weekend. happy weekend everybody. it was a busy week, especially in maryland where republicans are wrapping up their annual conservative political action conference. donald trump is expected to be the big headline for the final day today, but many of the party s biggest names opted out of just it means there is a change including, not, they re a florida governor ron desantis senate minority leader mitch mcconnell, and house speaker kevin mccarthy, pretty big names. the conference was, once one of the biggest events for conservatives. so, what happened? we are happy. and here s what our panel had to say earlier this week. there is a way regan would always go, this is where every sort of conservative used to go, then at some point it became obvious that it was going forth and you would have it became a libertarian gathering, not republican or conservative, that is when you have ron paul and rand paul start winnin
it became a libertarian gathering, not republican or conservative, that is when you have ron paul and rand paul start winning presidential pull there. and, just sort of this feeling that am i really going to waste my time at cpac when, they are going further and further mainstream? but they still held on to mainstream republicans until this year. now it is interesting, how many are just saying no. yeah, i actually think, joe, it is not yes there has always been the cranky libertarian thing that popped up at cpac in has always had that sort of whatever the flavor of college kind of bro theme conservativism was, but really what happened at cpac over the course of the last decade was it became impact. it became maga people action committee conference and committee quite frankly. trump first spoke there in 2011,