Republicans at CPAC Living in an Alternate Reality, Says Event s Former Leader
On 2/27/21 at 10:26 AM EST
Former Republican Congressman Mickey Edwards, who was also once the chair of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), criticized the 2021 edition of the conference, saying that the attending Republicans were living in an alternate reality.
In an interview with CNN, Edwards, who left the Republican Party following the January 6 Capitol insurrection, said the conference has lost sight of the principles conservative or otherwise it once operated on, with the attention shifting to former President Donald Trump. The people at CPAC are living in an alternate reality in which facts don t matter. The Constitution doesn t matter. They have no principle except whatever their leader says, he said.
U.S. conservatives praised Donald Trump at an annual gathering on Friday, even unveiling a golden statue of the former president, showing he remains a Republican political force despite violent scenes in Washington last month.
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Governor Kristi Noem spoke at the second day of the Conservative Political Action Conference, known as the CPAC, Saturday afternoon.
The South Dakota governor began her speech with a joke about how most people didn’t know much about her a year ago. Unlike the D.C. media, I am sure you all at least know there are two Dakotas. I m Governor of the warmer one, Noem said.
A year later, Noem is one of the most popular figures among conservatives attending the CPAC.
Below a breakdown of some of Noem’s topics during her speech:
South Dakota’s COVID response