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The newest instalment of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) is underway —one other four-day jamboree of grandstanding speeches, tradition conflict grievances and MAGA electioneering.
As the convention begins its last day, Donald Trump will make the keynote handle at 1 pm native time earlier than heading off to South Carolina for the state’s GOP major.
Nikki Haley is not going to be on the convention however did ship a defiant message to voters this week, pledging to struggle on within the battle for the GOP presidential nomination.
On Thursday, right-wing activist Jack Posobiec hailed the “end of democracy” throughout a panel occasion with Steve Bannon, commenting: “We are here to overthrow it completely. We didn’t get all the way there on January 6, but we will endeavour to get rid of it.”
Many of these anticipated to be short-listed as doable Trump working mates gave bombastic speeches to attempt to curry favour with the previous president — Elise Stefanik, Byron Donalds, Jim Jordan, Matt Gaetz, and Kristi Noem have been simply a few of those that took to the stage.
The occasion has misplaced among the punch it as soon as had, with some agenda objects poorly attended and a diminished — although nonetheless completely weird — merchandise market.
LIVE NOW: Donald Trump delivers keynote speech scheduled for 1 pm at CPAC 2024
Watch as Mr Trump is scheduled to take the stage on the convention any minute, delivering the keynote handle as votes roll in from the South Carolina major:
Katie Hawkinson24 February 2024 18:00
Fiona Hill warns ‘capricious’ Trump ‘will rip up every agreement that doesn’t have his title on it’
The continued presence of Donald Trump on the US political scene has longtime allies involved over whether or not the US could be a dependable safety associate, former National Intelligence Officer and Trump administration National Security Council official Fiona Hill has stated.
Speaking on the Principles First summit, a gathering of anti-Trump and pro-democracy conservatives in Washington, Ms Hill was requested to opine on how Mr Trump would have reacted to the killing of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny on his watch.
She advised attendees the twice-impeached, disgraced ex-president, whose efficiency throughout a 2018 Helsinki press convention alongside Russian chief Vladimir Putin was so unhealthy that she thought-about pulling a hearth alarm to finish it, would possibly even have reacted negatively to Navalny’s loss of life if he thought it made him look unhealthy.
“It’s really about how it reflects on him,” she stated.
Andrew Feinberg has the story:
Katie Hawkinson24 February 2024 17:30
Trump speech to begin at 1 pm native time
Donald Trump will ship a keynote speech on the ultimate day of CPAC in slightly below one hour, at 1 pm native time.
Watch the livestream right here:
Katie Hawkinson24 February 2024 17:04
Anti-trans rhetoric and coverage dominates CPAC, the place Republicans invoke the Bible and a ‘war on families’
When he addressed this 12 months’s Conservative Police Action Conference, right-wing commentator Michael Knowles addressed what he referred to as a “kerfuffle” from final 12 months’s remarks, when he stated “transgenderism must be eradicated from public life.”
Last 12 months’s assertion – broadly seen as a name for violence in opposition to trans individuals – was condemned by LGBT+ civil rights teams and the White House, amid an avalanche of anti-trans laws aimed toward younger individuals throughout the nation and fears of abuse and violence fuelled by the denial of trans existence.
At this 12 months’s CPAC, he stated he stands by his “observation” that “men can’t become women,” and that the backlash to his assertion reveals the “identity crisis” dealing with an America in decline with out faith.
His remarks on Thursday – a part of a comparatively prolonged diatribe condemning not solely trans individuals however marriage equality, abortion rights and surrogacy – drew little consideration exterior the poorly attended conference corridor, however underscored the ubiquity of anti-trans rhetoric that’s threading almost each single occasion on the convention and all through Republican politics.
Katie Hawkinson24 February 2024 17:00
ICYMI: Yes, there was a Jan 6-themed pinball machine at CPAC
Pictures of the brightly colored sport – which bore the title Jan 6: Insurrection, and featured an image of former president Donald Trump – have been circulated on-line.
Mike Bedigan has the story:
Katie Hawkinson24 February 2024 16:00
‘Donald Trump is a juggernaut of justice’ — Kash Patel
A sleepy and half-empty CPAC convened for its first gathering in 2024 on the Gaylord National Conference Center in National Harbor, Maryland, however there have been nonetheless loads of wild and unsubstantiated claims available.
Gustaf Kilander has been collating among the most weird issues stated to this point:
Oliver O’Connell24 February 2024 15:30
Roll up! Roll up! For the Trump veepstakes…
With the Republican presidential major all however determined for former president Donald Trump, Friday on the Conservative Political Action Conference served as an audition to change into Mr Trump’s working mate.
Being Trump’s working mate is an inherently dicey prospect. For one, the final one that served within the job, the unflappable and pious Mike Pence, famously broke with Trump for the efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, which resulted in Trump supporters threatening Pence’s life.
By the identical token, Trump might be 78 come 20 January 2024 and might be capped at serving solely 4 extra years. If Trump wins this individual will basically be his inheritor, with all the advantages and disadvantages. If Trump loses, they would be the individual to select up the items for the celebration in an entirely dysfunctional GOP. If Trump is convicted of a criminal offense on the marketing campaign path or dies whereas in workplace, this individual will change into the usual bearer for the Republican Party.
Oliver O’Connell24 February 2024 15:00
CPAC: ‘Our worst and dimmest’
Action Conference as “our worst and dimmest” as he branded them the “right-wing nuttiest Republicans.”
“It’s a who’s who of who won’t accept the results of the election,” the late-night discuss present host joked.
Oliver O’Connell24 February 2024 14:30
What would possibly we anticipate from Trump’s CPAC speech at this time?
When former president Donald Trump takes to the stage on the Conservative Political Action Conference on Saturday, anticipate him to make use of the prime time look to scrub up the Alabama Supreme Court’s mess.
Mr Trump, who has beforehand bragged about his position in “terminating” the federal proper to authorized abortion, is about to talk on the annual right-wing confab simply days after the Yellowhammer State’s highest court docket basically outlawed in-vitro fertilisation in a shock ruling that led the state’s IVF clinics to shutter their doorways.
The ruling and its aftermath have despatched shockwaves by way of Republican candidates on the state and federal ranges, who’ve struggled to cope with Democratic enthusiasm on account of the backlash to the federal Supreme Court’s Dobbs determination, which overturned the half-century-old Roe v Wade ruling which had assured abortion rights nationwide.
But the ex-president appeared to present his celebration course on Friday when he took to Truth Social to emphasize his assist for “the creation of strong, thriving, healthy American families” and “fertility treatments like IVF in every State in America”.
Oliver O’Connell24 February 2024 14:00
Stefanik referred to as out over ‘blatant lie’ about economic system and unemployment
Rep Elise Stefanik has been referred to as out by a number of individuals on X about her “blatant lie” in regards to the economic system left by Donald Trump when Joe Biden took workplace.
She advised the viewers at CPAC that when the previous president left workplace it was “the strongest economy in my lifetime … The lowest unemployment in 50 years”.
Unemployment in January 2021 was at 6.3 per cent, it’s now 3.7 %.
As Republicans in opposition to Trump level out: “The GDP growth under Trump was the worst since the Great Depression.”
Oliver O’Connell24 February 2024 13:15
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