let s bring in carlos carbello. carlos, vowing to wrap up, when a party no longer offers a new party platform or a new public policy idea, the way for politicians to quish themselves is through symbols, gestures, performance art and, above all, loyalty to the former president. how do you see this playing out for republicans come 2022, 2024. that s right, alicia, on this faith and freedom conference in florida, it really just highlights how all of these conservative conferences which before used to attract young conservative people who were maybe governors or young local elected officials and they talk about their ideas, their platforms. today they attend these events and they re essentially providing a performance for donald trump and his supporters.
as it moves further inland; however, remanents of the storm could cause problems for the carolinas as we move further into the weekend. jon, back to you. jonathan serrie reporting. jonathan, thank you. well, the catholic church going after president biden for his support of abortion as conservatives gather in central florida for a faith and freedom conference. more on that just ahead.
mark meredith has highlights of the faith and freedom conference. former vice president mike pence received a mostly warm welcome from thousands of religious conservatives, many of whom credit him for helping president trump reshape the supreme court. everson the day we defended the god-given liberties and tried in our constitution. religious liberty advocates are celebrating the high court decision after all nine justices ruled in favor of the catholic adoption group over the city of philadelphia which had refused to work with the organization due to their opposition to same-sex couples. i m excited that the supreme court is in favor of religious freedom. we need to keep our traditional family values intact. i m glad that they ruled in favor. some hecklers chanted traitor over his refusal to challenge the election results, mike pence
bret: u.s. catholic bishops have overwhelmingly approved the drafting of a teaching document that many hope will rebuke catholic politicians including president biden for receiving communion despite their support for abortion rights. the result of the vote was announced near the end of a three-day meeting of the u.s. conference of catholic bishops. punish shop donald wing of madison, wisconsin says many people are confused by a catholic president who advances, quote, the most radical pro-abortion agenda in history. the president said today he doesn t think it s going to happen. conservatives are hearing from perspective 2024 presidential candidates and other leaders this weekend in florida. correspondent mark meredith has highlights of the faith and freedom conference. taking care of business
where will the republican party be in 2022? yeah. hey, claire, good to see you in the seat. how much humiliation can one man take that he s willing to go and stand there and continue to suck up to donald trump after he had a mob shouting hang mike pence and now fans in the audience calling him a traitor? i think the republicans have some things working for them in 2022 that david laid out. like the rev laid out. as far as motivation to go out and go against biden where maybe the democrats won t have a boogieman on the ticket as much but some things work in the disfavor. two democratic senators in georgia is because of that very conflict within the party that you saw at the speech at the faith and freedom conference. a certain amount of hardline