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largely ignored. >> erick erickson, a popular radio host organized the event. most of the candidates who participated avoided speaking about trump or his legal troubles. cnn's eva mckend reports. >> reporter: conservative activists from across the region had the opportunity to hear from a number of 2024 republican hopefulses. on this final day they heard from vivek ramaswamy and chris christie. ramaswamy focuses his remarks on raling against corporate diversity efforts as well as talking about the importance of restoring patriotism in this country. for his part, christie talking about school choice, public safety and strengthening america's foreign policy. trump not a focus of this event. erick erickson who put this on did not invite trump and was very deliberate in not asking the candidates in these 45-minute wide-ranging interviews for the most part about trump.
and getting closer to average, jenna which will feel balmy. >> and feel like shorts and t- shirts. >> thank you. >> you bet. >> republican presidential hopefulses searching for the winning formula to give them victory. looking at ten closest states in the 2012 election. political analyst said they will be the decisive battlegrounds in 2016. look at the electorial big ten. wisconsin nevada and florida and iowa and pennsylvania and colorado will and virginia and ohio. where will these ten states go? shera is politics editor for roll call and daniel is on line editor for the weekly standard. welcome to you. interesting sharia. you point out at this time of the campaign cycle, everyone is paying attention to iowa and south carolina and yet those