'Anti-CPAC' summit planned with prominent GOP Trump critics

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Hill

02/12/24 10:07 AM ET


A summit aimed at rivaling the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) and featuring prominent Republican critics of former President Trump will take place in Washington later this month. The group Principles First is set to host a summit Feb. 23-25 at the Conrad hotel “focused on advancing a more principled center-right politics in the United States” and “rebuilding principled leadership that serves our country—not partisanship or personality,” according to the organization’s website.

Speakers for the event, the dates of which overlap with CPAC, include former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), former federal Judge J. Michael Luttig, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R), former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) and conservative lawyer George Conway. The event was described by organizers as an “anti-CPAC summit.”

CPAC will be taking place in National Harbor, Md., just outside D.C., around the same time and will include former President Trump and many of his allies, like House GOP Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, Reps. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and Sens. JD Vance (R-Ohio) and Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), among others.

The split screen between the two events shows an increasingly diverging GOP between Trump and anti-Trump factions of the party as the former president inches closer toward the Republican presidential nomination.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4462901-anti-cpac-summit-planned-prominent-gop-trump-critics/

[czarjak]

1. Game-Changer?

Like they’re gonna rival Schlaap’s minions.

[Lovie777]

2. Hopefully facts do matter.....................

[50 Shades Of Blue]

3. I hope they have realllll good security.

[kimbutgar]

4. I was thinking the same thing !

[FakeNoose]

5. They should start by redefining the word "conservative"

What is happening now in today's Republican Party is not conservative - it's mass delusion. The nutters are running the mental hospital now. It seems the solution is for this anti-CPAC group to find a way to take their party back.

Does anyone think that will really happen?

[slightlv]

7. I agree they need to redefine the word

conservative... by first defining it! It's been thrown around so often that it's totally lost all meaning. In fact, if one wasn't aware of "conservative" politics before trump, one would think it meant extremism and terrorism, IMO.

[William Seger]

8. I think it could happen

But I really don't know how much of TFG's support comes from true-believer cultists and how much from people who just vote Republican as a bad habit -- they'd call themselves conservatives, but really they're just bigots and reactionaries. I believe that many in that second group have already abandoned TFG, and more would if it suddenly dawns on them that he's a pathetic loser, but I can't guess how many that might be.

[Archae]

6. My guess is they don't want to molest young guys.

Like Schlapp does.

[Hotler]

9. We're against trump but, we're still for all the other shitty things the repugs are known for.