Trump Targets Democrat Policies in CPAC Speech

Former President Donald Trump told conservatives gathered in Texas that senators Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) will pay the ultimate political price for backing a $739 billion bill investing heavily in green energy.

Trump made the remarks during a speech to an audience of some 5,000 attendees as the final speaker at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Dallas on Saturday.

In a straw poll, conservatives gave Trump a 99 percent job-approval rating, and 69 percent said they would support him as their Republican presidential nominee for 2024. Florida’s Ron DeSantis came in a distant second at 24 percent.

The former president, who has all but announced his intentions to run again in 2024, predicted that the Democrats’ so-called Inflation Reduction Act will cost Manchin and Sinema their seats in the U.S. Senate.