like representative jim jordan, marjorie taylor greene, and matt gaetz. keri lake for, example, a prominent election denier who lost the governor s race in arizona last year, was also a guest speaker. so or steve bannon and pillow salesman mike lindell. key republican leaders like house speaker kevin mccarthy, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell, and our and see chairwoman, rhonda mcdaniel, did not take part in cpac this week. meanwhile, other presidential candidates possible presidential candidates set out the conference in favor of a different event this week. a sign of the republican party remains somewhat splintered with some members trying to charter new path forward and leaving donald trump far behind. instead of cpac, florida governor ron desantis, former vice president mike pence, south carolina senator tim scott, and new hampshire governor chris sununu opted to attend a private retreat with donors hosted by the conservative organization club for growth. the group
lane with trump leaving him behind, if this group is still there? michael, are you just stunned by the absolute spinelessness? it makes ted cruz, who wouldn t defend his own father, his own wife, looked like a tower of courage! that is just so pathetic, what we saw there. but i think the grip is going to go on, in part because they had this reflexive, stupid answer, which is i support the policies of donald trump. what policies are those? was that covid denial? was that what are these great policies they keep touting? separating children at the border? i m scratching my head. what are these policies? it s become so reflexive in their, well, i don t like him, but i like the policies. someone should ask them which ones of them they actually like! this is not going to be a way to get him to go away. these people are cowards,
moderation policies designed to keep more mainstream social networks profitable for advertisers interfere with both objectives. this was to me struck me as a real key point, that the right wants to promote covid denial or the hunter biden conspiracy but the cure kuration keeps them from being able to disseminate prop sgaj da. they can t get it on cbs or nbc or abc, just on fox. they can t force them to hear it so they can bully the abc producers directly. why do you suppose that s their only way in their mind of getting conservative views out? i don t think it s the only way. it s just a find they find effective and don t want to just bully and harass liberals, although they do want to do that, people that are important voices in the media, people in morn positions in the media,
Republicans listed include Tom O’Dea of New Canaan, Anne Dauphinais of Killingly, Mark Anderson of Granby, Rob Sampson of Wolcott, Kimberly Fiorello of Greenwich.