The CPAC weekend featured dueling political conferences, one flush with cash from globalists hoping that Trump’s rival speech would be treated akin to George Washington’s Farewell Address. It was wishful thinking by Never-Trumpers, as instead Trump retook control of the GOP.
Trump’s nearly 2-hour speech at CPAC, which for many years has been the largest annual grassroots conservative gathering, was astounding for his vigor and enthusiasm. He called for an end of the unsuccessful influence on the Republican Party by the Bush family, Karl Rove, and Paul Ryan, who drove the party into the ground until Trump rejuvenated it.
“This is the final battle,” Trump declared to the roaring crowd gathered for him in Maryland, just outside of D.C., even though that is not Republican territory. Trump then rattled off an array of hot-button issues that form the political agenda for ordinary Americans through the presidential election next year.
The contrast between Trump and the worn-out ideas of his media-pandering rivals could not be greater. The hedge fund bosses and phony free traders who assembled at The Breakers, the posh hotel in Palm Beach, Florida, are not the crowd who will be picking the next president or electing candidates down-ballot, and it was a mistake for Trump’s rivals to see that as a path to the White House.
Ironically, it was Trump who gave any prominence to the candidates who seek to replace him as the Republican nominee for president, and their lack of gratitude to him is reason enough to prefer Trump. Nikki Haley was appointed Ambassador to the United Nations by Trump, and she was heckled by conservatives at CPAC after turning against him.
In 2018, Trump propelled Ron DeSantis to the gubernatorial nomination over a better-known rival in Florida, where he won reelection in 2022 while finishing second overall in votes to its Trump-supporting Attorney General. DeSantis has not yet criticized Trump publicly, but in his 40-minute speech to globalists compared some Republicans to “potted plants” for allowing Leftists to frame the debate.
That criticism cannot apply to Trump, who relishes a good fight. DeSantis appears to be imitating Trump’s style without giving him credit.
Both Haley and DeSantis are traveling to Iowa, which remains the first contest on the Republican side and thus will set the tone for the primaries that follow. Trump enjoys enormous support among Republican officials in the early primary states, and he met with state leaders from Nevada while his rivals were auditioning before globalists.
“Failed former Congressman David McIntosh and his Globalist friends at Club for No Growth, who fought me all the way in 2016, and LOST, and then fought me again in 2020 Senate Races in Ohio, Alabama, North Carolina, New Hampshire, plus more, and LOST AGAIN, are now threatening to spend money against me,” Trump boomed. “No Growth Members know there will be RETRIBUTION!!!” Trump added.
Trump is right about the Club for Growth, formerly led by Pat Toomey who was one of the few Senators to vote in support of the vindictive second impeachment of President Trump. Toomey then left the Senate and became a director of Apollo Global Management, a private equity firm profiting from globalism and from the notorious “carried interest” tax loophole that Trump tried to end but Toomey was an “all-star” in preserving, a lobbyist told Bloomberg.
Club for Growth has lost many elections, and its campaign spending is too small to have any real influence. It spends less than half of 1% of the overall expenditures each election cycle, and Trump refers to it as “The Club For NO Growth, an assemblage of political misfits, globalists, and losers.”
Trump’s landslide victory in the straw poll at CPAC amassed three times as many votes as the distant runner-up Ron DeSantis and was Trump’s record-setting sixth victory in that poll. That doubles the career victories by President Ronald Reagan in that same poll and exceeds the four victories by the last GOP presidential nominee prior to Trump, Mitt Romney.
Trump’s speech was reminiscent of the Declaration of Independence in listing the grievances of the American People against the globalists who have run our country into the ground. Even the New York Times appears to agree with Trump in warning against further entanglement by the United States in the NATO war in Ukraine.
Steve Bannon quipped about the rivals to Trump, “We don’t have time for on-the-job training.” Trump’s rivals look like the seven dwarfs compared with Trump and just imagine how much he can accomplish in a second term without anti-Trumpers like Ryan and Toomey on Capitol Hill.
Like General Douglas MacArthur vowing to return and then doing so to liberate the Philippines during World War II, Trump will return to the White House to finish the job he started.
Fix our electoral debacle.
The R’s need to do this RIGHT! There should be no TRUMP vs DeSantis – it should be TRUMP AND DeSANTIS on the ticket! Each man could have separate responsibilities and then in 2028 PRESIDENT DeSANTIS could have Senator Hawley as VP and the rout would be on! We need good, SOLID R’s who will do what’s best for Our Nation and not a bunch of store bought stooges!! PRESIDENT TRUMP could lead the DESTRUCTION of the DEMOcrats while VP DeSANTIS handles policy areas! We don’t need another “CACKLES” in the VP Office!!
There will be cries over the lack of diversity on the ticket.
Thanks for this article. Many of us agree. However, not all authors featured in Frontpage do.
While diverse opinions should be fine, our nation is not in fine health. In fact, it can be said to be in its death bed.
So I can’t help but sense those in disagreement are globalists or maybe have TDS when they dismiss Trump’s CPAC speech as, for example, too long. I thought his speech was riveting, honest and inspiring.
Will the supposedly bored globalists ever help restore a valid voting system so we can know who the people actually chose?
Probably not.
Shame on you.. Trump has been lying about our our best candidate, Ron DeSantis, on a a daily basis. He should not be rewarded for his repulsive attacks.
Trump, after giving $billions to Big Pharma to produce a bioweapon on humanity continues to promote its use. This alone disqualifies from the presidency.
This obnoxious man just weeks ago pushed swamster Ronna McDaniel back into power. He has a veritable rogues gallery of globalists and swamp creatures he appointed sitting in D.C.
You have the audacity to smear possibly the first Catholic president eligible communion as globalist when his track record is clearly otherwise.
Shame on you. Trump will never be president again. Thank God.
DeSantis 2024!
My daughter and I love Donald J. Trump. We think no one else can do the job as well as him.
We are on board for Trump until his last and best vote comes in.
Mrs. Jo. Dermody. PA. 18830
Will this man please go away! You did your best for 4 years and lost, go write another book or get another TV show.
A trump candidacy with assure more Dems.
By “lost”, you mean facing massive election rigging, and mail-in ballots stuffed into drop-boxes by mules making several rounds to collection centers. (1000s of those mules caught on film illegally stuffing ballots had a busy night.)
There was no election rigging. There were no mules transporting illegal ballots. You’ve been flimflammed by the master con artist Trump.
The one-two punch of a Trump/DeSantis administration would benefit the country, the states, and the world. DeSantis would then enter the White House with engines already running full-speed ahead.
Any Republican can theoretically “lose” due to Deep State Democrat Communist election fraud.
Communists lie, cheat and steal elections. That’s what they do.
We will go the way of Venezuela unless people realize who and what we are up against.
Any Republican presidential candidate will be demonized and smeared by the Communist Propaganda Media owned and controlled by the Globalists and CCP.
It’s easy to stuff the ballot box with fake ballots and discard Republican votes esp. in Communist occupied zones.
Spot on assessment.
What’s so frustrating is that those like Bush choose to see no evil. (The same Bush that forgot how we had his back during the attempted steal of his election in 2000.)
A horrible prediction: Trump wins the nomination and the creature wins “reelection.”
Anybody who still believes Trump deserves to be a candidate for president after his post 2020 election shenanigans ought to have their heads examined.
I think at this time in our history Trump would be the best candidate to terrorize the swamp, and China. We all know big tech needs to be busted up – and brought to heal. The Bezos and Zucks broke the law. Violated our countries 1st amendment rights. They influenced the election.
No private companies should be more powerful than our government – especially pertaining to elections.
Trump can get down into the deep and smelly with the best of them. He has been dealing with dirty politicians (mostly dems), his whole professional carrer.
It would be great if DeSantis was his running mate and part time enforcer. Maybe handle the media end of it too.