Donald Trump has been a keynote speaker at CPAC since 2017, and increasingly since then it has modeled itself in his image. That transformation seems almost complete as during 2024 CPAC, Nazis were welcomed.
Trump, at one point, was trying to criticize Biden at CPAC when he ended up saying that he would rather see Biden as president.
Trump was chained to his teleprompter and has been met with disinterest and mostly muted applause even from his adoring audience at CPAC.
Trump claimed they were hanging off the rafters at CPAC for his speech, but a reporter on the scene said the ballroom was about 85% full.
The cold war between Fox News and Trump suddenly got very hot as Steve Bannon said that he wants the Murdochs and Fox News gone.
Former Trump campaign adviser and Donald Trump Jr. fiancee Kimberly Guilfoyle addressed CPAC on Friday to a tiny and apparently less than enthused audience.
Matt Gaetz and Steve Bannon are calling for the overthrow of Kevin McCarthy as Republican House Leader so that Jim Jordan can replace him.
CPAC has become the far right’s gathering place, but Sen. Rick Scott was so out there that he lost the audience.
The only line of defense left to our democracy is in the Democratic Party winning elections, and they are facing horrific poll numbers for President Biden, bad maps and poor prospects for the House and Senate.
As of right now, the GOP is acting as if Donald Trump is the clear 2024 presidential candidate for the party. Things, however, may not be anything near that simple. Trump is not only and older man with potential health difficulties, there are also plenty of legal challenges for him ahead. And while he is…
When Donald Trump took office in 2017, his adult children were heavily involved in his administration. Daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner became key advisers. And while Donald Jr. and Eric reportedly took over Trump Organization business, they still acted as surrogates during rallies and cable news appearances. Joe Biden‘s children seemingly have no role…
This weekend, a number of prominent Republicans spoke at the CPAC conference. During the speeches, though, there was very little substance. There were also few outlines of how the GOP would move forward after last year’s losses. Instead, attendees had to listen to Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley complain about how they have been wronged….
Representative Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) defended former President Donald Trump despite harsh criticism about the speech Trump gave at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). “The American people appreciate people who does what they said [they would],” Jordan told “Fox and Friends” co-host Steve Doocy. “That’s the point I was making because so often in that…
Representative Lauren Boebert (R-Co.) has made headlines in recent weeks for refusing to abide by a House rule that states lawmakers who refuse to walk through metal detectors installed outside the House chamber following the January 6 siege of the United States Capitol will be fined $5,000 for their first offense and $10,000 for any…
If Democrats want to save democracy and work toward unity, they must remove the obstacle of the filibuster.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) slammed the “failed Republican establishment” in remarks at the Conservation Political Action Conference (CPAC). “Florida’s leading on the issues that matter to conservatives,†DeSantis said. “We don’t spout hollow rhetoric. We take decisive action.†He referred to Florida as “an oasis of freedom” and praised his administration’s response to the…
During a segment on “Fox and Friends,” Fox News personality Pete Hegseth criticized Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading expert on Covid-19 for being “anti-fun” while attending a maskless breakfast for the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Florida. “Because you don’t have to [wear a mask], that is indeed the case,” said Hegseth in…
Former FBI lawyer Lisa Page said Trump is still very much obsessed with her and former FBI head of counterintelligence Peter Strzok.
Trump’s chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney compared the coronavirus to a hoax and claimed that the media was using panic to bring down Trump.
Television personality Bill Maher confronted the head of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Matt Schlapp, about Fox News’ coverage of Donald Trump. In the discussion Maher said, “Fox News is basically running our government.†During the one-on-one interview with Schlapp, Maher confronted the unwavering supporter of Donald Trump with a list of the president’s…
Appearing on MSNBC, GOP strategist Rick Tyler said he was extremely upset at what he heard from Donald Trump during his speech at CPAC. But even more disturbing, Tyler said, was the enthusiastic reception the president was received from the crowd. As the National Spokesman and Communications Director for Cruz for President, Rick was a…
It has been four-hundred and eighteen days since Donald Trump has been sworn into office as President. Since that time, Americans have been treated to what is aptly described as a reality-show presidency with all of the trappings. Each day brings new revelations about Trump’s campaign and its possible and likely involvement with Russia in…
Dems ought to be focused on saving healthcare, Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. Instead, they’re chasing down scandals or they’re making them up.
Bannon is a “dangerous person driven by an authoritarian ideology. This is a mean, vicious, intolerant group. I’ve never seen anything like this.”
Davi is wrong, not only about the law but about who is guilty of spreading false and malicious rumors. It is his hero who is liable, not his critics
So far at CPAC we have seen nonstop attacks on “globalists” and “globalism” – and this from a president who makes money from all over the globe. On the whole, this makes as much sense as liberals being cast as the elites when it’s Trump who uses a golden toilet as his throne.
As the Trump White House leans on the FBI to shut it up about their Russian connections, at CPAC the Trump fans waved their pro-Trump fans with gusto, until the fans were hastily confiscated.
The Trumpean agenda is the polar opposite of Obama’s inclusiveness, of an America unified not by shared race, but shared values and ideals
Fox News says he won’t work in journalism anymore, which should be easy since harassing and trolling people online isn’t really journalism.
“Anti-Semitism, ok. Racism, ok. Alt Right, ok. Advocacy of pedophilia? Is THAT the bridge too far?â€
Donald Trump knows CPAC is not Trump country so he’s going to Kansas, if he can find something he can’t spell on a map
Habitual liar Scott Walker has said he released his college records, but as PolitiFact has shown, this is just another lie
Now they are lining up at the annual Aryan-sponsored conservative conclave to accuse the President of all manner of malfeasance in cleaning up and dealing with George W. Bush’s religious crusade in Iraq that engendered the rise of Islamic extremists known as the Islamic State (IS, ISIS, ISIL).
Republicans have sold their souls, assuming they have any, to white nationalists who believe mixing races is rebellion against God
Gov. Scott Walker insulted millions of Democrats and Republicans who belong to unions today by comparing unions to ISIS during his CPAC speech. Democrats are responding by blasting Walker.
Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and Sarah Palin seem to have captured the spirit of the current crop of Republicans; still extreme and still anti-Obama.
Even though, he lost the election a confused Mitt Romney delivered his stump speech to CPAC.
Paul Ryan took the stage at CPAC, and completely ignored the reality that he and his ideas lost the 2012 election.
CPAC invited Wayne La Pierre this year and last year, they had white supremacist John Derbyshire, but GOProud is banned.
Incredible amounts of money were spent on the 2012 General Election. And lots of that money was wasted when expensive attack ads didn’t work
The NRA is front and center again as another mass murder draws attention to the organization and the role of guns in the United States.
Gregory Nathan Peterson, a Romney supporter who had hundreds of Utah’s GOP luminaries over for BBQ, is accused of being a serial date rapist
If presidential hopeful Willard “Mitt†Romney wins the nomination and presidency, he promises to be the hero that destroys Social Security.
It is getting ugly out there in Republican land as Rick Santorum claimed on CNN that Mitt Romney has become so desperate that he rigged the CPAC straw poll.
Another day, another Republican caucus, another chance for conservatives to pick the candidate who will have the honor of losing to Obama.
Each year, CPAC brings you the most insane things Republican can think of saying. We present you here with a sampling of 2012’s offerings
Sarah Palin heads to CPAC and plays more cat and mouse with conservative. What did Sarah Palin mean when she said, “game on?”
Sarah Palin finally hit rock bottom and accepted an invitation to speak for free at CPAC, and her address was a combination of lies about Obama and bitterness over 2008.
In an interview with Newsmax, Mitt Romney was asked about a growing libertarian movement within the GOP, and Ron Paul’s victory in the CPAC straw poll. Romney managed to dismiss the defeat and also claim that, “I don’t think there is a growing portion of Americans who are Ron Paul devotees.” Romney completely dismissed Ron Paul and his CPAC straw poll victory.
Glenn Beck took advantage of his keynote address at CPAC on February 20th to embrace a fantasy America that, while it might appeal to the Republican base, does not exist. More, it can be proven not to exist. The problem for Glenn is that numbers don’t lie. So what do you do when you don’t like the numbers? You make up new ones.
Fox News went into full spin mode after it was announced that Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) had won the CPAC presidential straw poll with 31% of the vote. Paul beat FNC favorite Mitt Romney, and the network’s newest on air talent Sarah Palin. Fox News not only didn’t identify Paul as a Republican, but pointed out that poll was unscientific and, “bragging rights.”
At CPAC today Rick Santorum took a question from military spouse about the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, and turned it into suggestion that military has been indoctrinated, “I am not too sure that we haven’t so indoctrinated the officer corps in the this country that they can actually see straight to make the right decision.”
