CPAC 2021: What will Trump say during the influential Republican conference and who else is speaking?

The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) opens on Thursday, February 25 in Orlando, Florida, with the departure of President Donald Trump as keynote speaker in his first public engagement since leaving the White House for Mar-a-Lago a month ago.

A four-day rally of right-wing activists from across the United States, CPAC, was established in 1974 by the American Conservative Union and Young Americans for Freedom and the first speech was given by Ronald Reagan, then governor of California and two years a presidential candidate. later, who used the platform to set out his vision for the country.

It has since become a very important date in the conservative calendar, an opportunity for American right-wingers to come together to take notes on a range of issues concerning their value system, from the Second Amendment to arms to abortion.

But this year’s conference, titled ‘America Uncancelled,’ is likely to be extraordinarily charged, as the Republican Party is currently embroiled in a civil war following Trump’s election defeat and the riot in the Capitol, with Trump’s loyal supporters and settlers in ‘ a feud locked up. it wants to determine its future.

The latest speaker series has a distinctly Trumpic flavor as CPAC makes clear its allegiance to the 45th president. And its theme promises a capture with the narrative ‘cultural war’ narratives regarding political correctness and censorship of George Floyd, rather than tackling broader policy issues such as the pandemic, the climate crisis, social justice or the domestic terror threat by white supremacists.

The former president has maintained a relatively low profile since leaving office and losing his Twitter account, but will reportedly use his platform for a ‘show of power’ on Sunday, according to Axios, who reminds the IDP that he is still is steering affairs, expected to play kingship for the foreseeable future and is the “presumed 2024 nominee”.

“Trump is actually the Republican Party,” his senior adviser Jason Miller told the website. ‘The only gap is between Beltway insiders and Republicans at grassroots level across the country. If you attack President Trump, you’re attacking the Republican sole. ”

The former president is also expected to attack Joe Biden – just five weeks in office – to destroy the country, with a specific focus on his successor’s approach to immigration reform, according to reports.

Of mnr. Trump will be able to resist the opportunity to resist his enemies on the right, which now includes people like Mike Pence, Mitch McConnell and Liz Cheney, after his recent Senate acquittal, have yet to be seen.

We can certainly expect more flag hugs, but his habit of embracing the Stars-and-Stripes like a beloved grandmother, a distinctive CPAC gesture and one of the strangest glasses.

In addition to mr. Trump, includes U.S. President Matt Schlapp, President of the U.S. Conservative Union, this year, Mike Pompeo, Ben Carson, Andrew Wheeler, KT McFarland, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Larry Kudlow and Matthew Whitaker.

Governors Kirsti Noem, Ron DeSantis and Scott Walker will all appear, as well as celebrities from Magaverse, Donald Trump Jr., Dan Bongino, Charlie Kirk, Tom Fitton, Pam Bondi, actor Jon Voight, Fox presenter Pete Hegseth, Buck Sexton, James O’Keefe, Sara A Carter, founder of Black Guns Matter, Maj Toure, and Dana Loesch, former NRA spokeswoman.

Rapper and cultural commentator Young Pharaoh, who was also left out of the original guest-speaking lineup, was fired after Media Matters reported that he had previously made anti-Semitic comments.

The hip-hop artist responded by describing CPAC’s decision to drop him from ‘America Uncancelled’ as ‘censorship at its best’.