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Post by Admin on Mar 5, 2023 18:17:27 GMT
Donald Trump says he could end the war between Ukraine and Russia ‘in one day.’
The former US president has been rallying his diehard conservative supporters with a speech at their annual gathering in Maryland.
Mr Trump declared that next year's presidential election would be the "final battle" for America, telling delegates that he was their "warrior" and their "retribution".
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Post by Admin on Mar 5, 2023 20:06:46 GMT
Former President Donald Trump easily won the Conservative Political Action Conference’s (CPAC) closely watched straw poll on Saturday, notching a symbolic win among the Republican grassroots as he seeks to reclaim the White House in 2024.
Trump won with 62 percent, while Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), likely his closest rival, came in at 20 percent. Businessman Perry Johnson, who announced his candidacy for the White House this week, earned 5 percent.
The results aren’t especially surprising; the former president has claimed the top spot in each of the previous five CPAC straw polls, which gauge the presidential preferences of conference attendees.
Trump won last year’s straw poll at CPAC in Orlando, Fla., with 59 percent support. DeSantis scored 28 percent in that straw poll.
At the same time, CPAC has transformed into a Trump-friendly venue over the years, and several prospective 2024 presidential contenders, including DeSantis, former Vice President Mike Pence and Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), skipped out on the event this time around.
Trump is set to address the conference on Saturday evening, while two other declared presidential hopefuls, former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, delivered remarks earlier in the week.
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Post by Admin on Mar 5, 2023 21:53:33 GMT
Former President Donald Trump turned this year’s fairly sleepy, low-attended CPAC into a raucous campaign event Saturday as attendees clad in relics from his 2016 and 2020 campaigns clamored for his attention.
While more and more Republican leaders have been distancing themselves from Trump after many candidates he endorsed in the 2022 midterms lost their races, the ex-prez had a devoted group of far-right fanatics rooting him on at the Conservative Political Action Conference in the National Harbor in Maryland.
“We are never going back to a party that wants to give unlimited money to fight foreign endless wars but demands we cut veteran benefits and retirement benefits at home,” Trump said.
He also criticized the “entrenched political dynasties in both parties” — an apparent reference to the Bush family, which has opposed him for years.
“I’m standing before you because we’re going to finish what we started,” Trump told the crowd. “With you at my side … we will throw off the political class that hates our country.
“We will expose and appropriately deal with the RINOS [Republicans in Name Only], we will evict Joe Biden from the White House, and we will liberate America from these villains and scoundrels once and for all.”
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Post by Admin on Mar 6, 2023 0:37:00 GMT
Tulsi Gabbard Slams Democrats For Weaponising Identity Politics | Tulsi Gabbard Speech | News18 LIVE
Former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard accused Democrats of weaponizing identity politics in order to divide the country, claiming the party has devolved into becoming the “racists they claim to hate.”
In a speech at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference on Saturday, Gabbard decried the Democratic Party for its policies on race that she says promotes “anti-white racism.” The former congresswoman specifically pointed to the Biden administration’s efforts to appoint women and people of color to his Cabinet, accusing the president of using token candidates to boost himself politically.
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Post by Admin on Mar 6, 2023 4:14:33 GMT
OXON HILL, Md. — Former President Donald Trump regaled his faithful on Saturday evening in suburban Washington with promises of “retribution” against their mutual enemies, but the reception was relatively subdued compared with his past raucous speeches at the event. "In 2016, I declared I am your voice,” Trump said to the ballroom packed with his most fervent loyalists at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), to some of the loudest sustained applause of the night. “Today I add: I am your warrior, I am your justice — and for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution. I will totally obliterate the deep state." But roughly 20% of the seats were empty, and Trump struggled at times to get a rise with his applause lines, including an extended riff about homeless military veterans being treated worse than undocumented immigrants. CPAC’s annual event draws a wide array of Republican Party activists, lawmakers, donors and other influential figures on the right. The event — hailed by some as “Woodstock for conservatives” — was viewed as a required campaign stop for GOP presidential hopefuls, though Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former Vice President Mike Pence both skipped the 2023 confab, perhaps aware that Trump would easily win its straw poll. Longtime staples of the right, like conservative media giant Fox News, also skipped the conference this year. And the crowd had fewer college Republicans than it has in recent years. Sany Dash, one of the vendors selling Trump and MAGA merchandise at the conference, said the crowd was not what it used to be just a few years ago. The exhibition hall had more space and fewer vendors and activists. “It’s Trumpism — he opened all this up,” Dash said. “It’s Trump’s party.”
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