of a man, cpac s road to irrelevant s, the four elitist conference has become and a list sideshow for trump, and only trump, then republican refusal of the new gop efforts to block regulation that could prevent real disasters. and the worst of the week pits to state republican parties against each other, will florida or georgia come out this week? i m ayman, let s get started! all right, new tonight. donald trump wrapping up his speech at the conservative political action conference just what i m ago. just a short time ago. we re gonna do you a favor. we are not going to show you any soundbites from his speech, because it was justice disassociated from the real world as all of his recent speeches. but we can report that the cpac crowd loved it and he won the conferences straw poll and that s only notable because trump was about the only person at the conference this week who enjoyed such a warm reception. hardly anyone showed up to nikki haley s address, you can see it on you
OXON HILL, Maryland Former President Donald Trump s CPAC address doubled as a rallying cry for his supporters and most of the self-selecting crowd filtered out of the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center ready to make America great again.
Oxon Hill, Maryland Former President Donald Trump avoided attacking Gov. Ron DeSantis Saturday and said he d welcome the Florida governor and other Republicans to challenge him for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination.
wanna respect the fancy results of the election. that s a very serious country. people have a huge platform out there with, even though republicans, some republican stayed away from cpac, they re not denouncing cpac. they re not denouncing trump or these ideas in the way that they should. and so this continues to be a massive problem for our democracy and for basic civility in our country. i want to ask you, if i can, switching from a moment, gary s here, about the pandemic era expansion of food assistance funding, a snap benefits that expired this week, something that was so crucial and served as a lifeline during the pandemic. how dire is the situation? you re the chair of the process progressive caucus. this is something that you championed, that a lot of progressives on the left s left champion. i want to make clear, snap
going to resolve this crisis because clearly they understand that trump and the extreme republicans put the republican brand at risk. that s why so many are staying away. but on the other hand, trump is the republican brand. and that is a problem for them. that is why they lost so many races, including herschel walker, including so many across the country, because trump insisted on these extreme maga candidates. and the people that showed up are the ones who are still willing to embrace that one man hook. you talk to me about the danger of this identity crisis for a moment? we look at some crazy of all republicans on a state level doing things where they re in florida or texas. you re talking about the identity crisis at play here with cpac all under the control of trump and the conspiracy theorists. how dangerous is it for the republican party, for this country, for them, to be