Donald Trump appears to have been one of two former presidents who hoped to use the Conservative Political Action Conference as a means of fostering a return to power. 

Former President Donald Trump did not declare all-out war on his opponents within the Republican Party, but he nonetheless spoke in fatalistic terms during his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Greater Washington, D.C. 

Anyone tuning into the Conservative Political Action Conference expecting to hear sour grapes from recently jettisoned Project Veritas head James O’Keefe instead got a reminder that O’Keefe is nothing if not forward facing. 

If there is a speaker at CPAC who can thus far claim to have given the audience, both in attendance and watching at home, exactly what they expected, it’s Marjorie Taylor Greene. 

Recently announced presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy balked at the idea of a national divorce but told the audience at CPAC the nation needed a patriotic revival. 

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley’s visit to CPAC was a stark illustration of the strategy the former South Carolina governor is trying to enact, a plan that is meant to undercut Donald Trump without clashing with the head of the MAGA movement.