Former President Donald Trump will address the Conservative political action conference, or CPAC, in Florida next week on the future of the Republican Party and the Conservative movement, a source familiar with the plan told Reuters on Saturday.
The CPAC meeting will be held from February 25 to 28 in Orlando, Florida, with Trump on the last day, Reuters reported.
“He will be reported on the future of the Republican Party and the Conservative movement.” ‘Also look at the 45th president to take over president [Joe] Biden’s disastrous amnesty and border policy. ”
Trump lost the presidency to Biden, who beat him 306-232 in the Electoral College and more than 7 million votes in the popular vote. The former president refused to accept the result, but now lives in his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
Last week, he survived a second indictment for inciting the deadly uprising at the US Capitol on January 6, as part of his attempt to reverse his defeat.
Seven Republican senators have voted for conviction, 10 of which are less than necessary, but an indication of a party split between Trump supporters and a business that wants to move on.
Ten House Republicans voted to accuse and Trump expressed their anger. On Tuesday, he targeted the Senate’s minority leader, Mitch McConnell, the oldest elected Republican.
The loss of the White House to Biden and the control of the Senate, which the Democrats elected last month in some troubled victories in Georgia, coupled with the rise of extreme right-wingers voting for Trump, support Republican leaders on the point they plan how to win back Congress in 2022.
Trump and McConnell parted ways in the weeks after the November election, with Trump angry that the Republican from Kentucky recognized Biden as the winner in mid-December. They have not spoken since, a former White House official said this week.
The gap widened when McConnell declared after the Senate acquittal that Trump was “practically and morally responsible” for the Capitol attack and open to criminal prosecution. In return, Trump called McConnell “a sloppy, grumpy and shameless political heel” and said that if Republicans stayed with him “they would not win again”.
The poll shows that although thousands have left the party since the Capitol attack, a clear majority of leftists support Trump and would vote for him if he were to run in the 2024 presidential nomination.
It was also reported this week that former White House strategist Steve Bannon thought Trump was suffering from early dementia while in office.
A number of top Republicans considered as potential candidates for the 2024 presidential candidate should also speak to CPAC, including former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Kristi Noem, the governor of South Dakota.
Two notable figures who do not appear on the CPAC list of speakers are former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley and former Vice President Mike Pence.
Another anonymous source told Reuters Trump rejected a request from Haley to meet him recently after she was critical of him in a Politico article.
Pence’s life was threatened by the Capitol mob when he refused to go along with Trump’s efforts to stop the election.
Conservative and CPAC candidates were slow to accept Trump when he first ran for office, leading to him withdrawing from the event during the 2016 primary. But he dominated the occasion, and he offered red meat to a party base, apparently entirely in his trolley.
“Do you remember I started running and people would say, ‘Are you sure he’s a Conservative? “He asked his audience in 2018.” I think now, we’re proving I’m a conservative, right? ‘