The message here is very clear. People love Donald Trump, Lahren said while recounting her experience at the annual event so far.
CPAC, which runs Thursday through Sunday in Orlando, Fla., has a lineup of high-profile GOP figures, including Texas Sen. Ted Cruz
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According to Lahren, Trump s second impeachment and the Capitol insurrection have not deterred the right-wing CPAC attendees from supporting the former president. They want him to announce that he is going to run in 2024, Lahren said. People are excited about freedom and tired of the lockdowns, the shutdowns and the infringements.
The CPAC crowd is looking to Trump for a lot of guidance and a lot of inspiration, she added, claiming that support for Trump s most vocal Republican critics, who haven t been given any speaking time, among CPAC attendees is minimal.
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Pelosi later pledged during her weekly press conference that she would do “anything to have it be bipartisan.”
But so far, a draft bill has come under fire from Republicans, whose support will be needed in the Senate in order to establish the commission. There is also public skepticism from some Democrats and leaders of the 9/11 panel that Pelosi is citing as a model.
Those tensions have resulted in a back-and-forth of high-profile barbs after McConnell appeared to pour cold water on much of Pelosi’s draft legislation, a copy of which had been shared with his staff.
“An inquiry with a hard-wired partisan slant would never be legitimate in the eyes of the American people. An undertaking that is uneven or unjust would not help our country,” McConnell said.