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Nov 14 2022
News
CPAC Chairman to Newsmax: 'Silly' to Blame Trump for GOP Setbacks
CPAC Chairman Matt Schlapp told Newsmax on Monday that it's "silly" to blame former Donald Trump for the disappointing performance of Republicans in last week's midterm elections.
Schlapp told Newsmax's "Wake Up America" that "Trump's batting average on his candidates were better than almost anybody's and that "to blame Donald Trump [for the poor results] is silly."
Schlapp also
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Mar 06 2019
News
Old and New Claims in Trump’s CPAC Address
In a two-hour address to the Conservative Political Action Conference on March 2, President Donald Trump made questionable and false claims about the fight against ISIS, tariffs and African American income. He also repeated a bevy of claims we’ve debunked before.
Trump claimed a general, whom he “had to fire,” told him it would take “two years” to retake all of the land once held by the
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Mar 05 2023
Analysis
Five Key Moments from Donald Trump's Crucial CPAC Speech
There were few surprises in former President Donald Trump's headline address at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Saturday.
Lasting almost two hours, Trump took jabs at Democrats like President Joe Biden, as well as his Republican rivals, although he refrained from mentioning Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis—who is widely expected to announce a run for president—by name.
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Mar 03 2023
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Nikki Haley seeks support from Republicans ‘tired of losing’ at CPAC
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley ventured onto Donald Trump stomping grounds on Friday, seeking support from rank-and-file Republicans who are “tired of losing”.
In remarks at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) outside of Washington DC, Haley presented herself as the face of a “new generation” of Republican leaders, making her pitch to a crowd still
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Feb 27 2023
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DeSantis isn’t going to CPAC but hits the ground running with book tour
Gov. Ron DeSantis may not be officially running for president, but his packed schedule this week sure looks like someone laying the groundwork for a campaign. After spending the weekend meeting with key GOP allies and conservative media figures in South Florida, DeSantis is set to kick off a tour in Leesburg on Tuesday to promote his newly released book, “The Courage to Be Free.” The governor
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Feb 24 2017
News
CPAC Offers Utterly Uninspiring Vision for Millennials
For all the things establishment conservatives think millennials should be against, they have a hard time articulating what young people should be for, and what that has to do with the Republican Party.
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Mar 06 2016
News
Cruz wins CPAC presidential straw poll
Texas GOP Sen. Ted Cruz on Saturday won the annual CPAC presidential straw poll, a gauge of where conservative voters stand.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio came in second and billionaire businessman Donald Trump came in third.
Cruz got 40 percent of the informal vote, followed by Rubio with 30 percent, Trump with 1
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Feb 22 2021
News
Trump to bash Biden immigration policy in CPAC keynote
Former President Donald Trump intends to attack President Biden's “disastrous amnesty and border policies” in a keynote address at the Conservative Political Action Conference, his first public speaking engagement since leaving office, a source told the Washington Examiner.
Trump is scheduled to speak on the afternoon of Feb. 28, the final day of the conference, to be held in Orlando,
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Mar 01 2015
News
Rand Paul Wins the CPAC Straw Poll
The streak remains unbroken.
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul was announced as the winner of the 2015 Conservative Political Action Conference straw poll on Saturday, the third year in a row he has carried the event.
The announcement was met with cheers of “President Paul!” from the audience.
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Mar 01 2015
News
What we learned from CPAC 2015
Rand Paul won the straw poll. Jeb Bush got booed. Hillary Clinton, and the media, were bashed to no end. Those were the headlines from this week’s Conservative Political Action Conference, a celebration for the GOP’s activist set and one of the first major Republican cattle calls of the 2016 presidential race. Beneath the surface, though, the confab revealed much about the contours of the
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