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Hotels host meetings and events, and generally do not carefully vet the messages that will be shared or the people who will gather at those meetings to make sure they’re consistent with the values of their median customer, consistent with the values of their most vocal customers, or consistent with the values of twitter. From time to time that becomes a problem, and seemingly becomes a problem for Hyatt (and, oddly, for the Hyatt Regency Orlando) relatively often. Late Marriott CEO Arne Sorenson said it wasn’t his job to vet the groups they host and that you don’t want a...

Donald Trump will be the keynote speaker at CPAC this year and will address the attendees in Orlando on Sunday afternoon. Mr Trump is expected to take to the stage at around 3:40pm (EST) on Sunday, where he is rumoured to announce plans to run for president in 2024.

I wasn't able to watch the CPAC Rush Limbaugh Tribute live, (saw it on Judge Jeanine's show tonight), anyone have the link to it?Thanks in advance.

According to a report from Politico, three sources close to Trump told them that McCarthy may be in for a public reprimand. For his part, McCarthy praised Trump in his own CPAC speech, saying that “it was the forgotten man and woman that Donald Trump listened to the voice of that no one else would listen to.” However, Politico reports that “he’s stewing anew over KEVIN MCCARTHY. It’s become so frequent that his advisers think the House minority leader may be in for a public reprimand. That’s even after the powwow at Mar-a-Lago where McCarthy tried to patch things up...

Dan Bongino at CPAC -- great stuff

Senator Tom Cotton spoke to the assembled multitude in free Florida at CPAC yesterday. Among other things, he recalled the chaos he sowed inside the New York Times with the publication of his column calling for federal troops to restore order in riot-torn cities last year. Times staffers protested that the column put the lives of “Black @NYTimes staff in danger.” The column caused a “total meltdown with the little social justice warriors at The New York Times,” as he put it, “all these children that have been marinated in the language of the campus seminar room.” He recalled, “They...

CNN’s Jim Acosta must miss the verbal pugilism that happened whenever he confronted President Trump with a question. So on Friday he ventured into the bears’ den at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, FL.He got what he came for — a confrontation. But what he didn’t expect were any of those “true believers” to give him a taste of his own medicine.Jim Acosta came not to report, but to browbeat Trump supporters....He didn’t plan on Federalist writer David Marcus calling him out on Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s scandals. Marcus is a native New Yorker who loves his city and...

General Michael Flynn penned an oped at UncoverDC on Friday. The America First General and Trump ally called on President Trump to speak clearly on the fraud and irregularities of the 2020 election in his CPAC speech on Sunday. General Flynn even suggests that if President Trump skips over this discussion and analysis of the stolen election there may never be another free and fair election in America’s future. Here is a segment from General Flynn’s appeal to President Donald Trump.

Unfortunately due to an unexpected family issue I was unable to give my speech at @CPAC. I was really looking forward to it.But as I told @mschlapp they should move #cpac to #Florida permanently. pic.twitter.com/iwQlQExPKf— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) February 27, 2021

After resounding embrace of ex-president, leaders to define where movement goes next as it resists Biden agenda. Cast aside the debunked Russia scandal, a roaring economy supplanted by pandemic, two impeachments, two acquittals and a whole lot Washington vitriol. The heart of America's conservative movement wants it to be known: Trumpism is here to stay. Day one of the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando delivered a resounding embrace of the 45th president and his "America First" agenda, and a warning to what host Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis called "the failed Republican establishment of yesteryear." It is time to get...

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) on Friday mocked “social justice warriors” at the New York Times and their “meltdown” this summer over his op-ed in the paper calling for troops to restore order during the rioting at the time. Speaking on the first day of the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) in Orlando, Florida, Cotton recalled how hundreds of Times staffers were so upset their paper had published his op-ed that they forced an editor to step down. He said: So I wrote an op-ed in the New York Times. It had a very simple message, a very common-sense message, grounded...

Donald Trump Jr. used his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando on Friday to rail against President Biden’s first moves in office and criticize establishment Republicans like House GOP Conference Chair Liz Cheney (Wyo.). Former President Trump’s eldest son mocked Cheney as "Lincoln Project Liz," referring to the anti-Trump GOP group, after Cheney was one of the House Republicans voted to impeach his father on a charge of inciting the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol. -snip- “Who would have thought within 33 days we’d be bombing the Middle East again,” Trump Jr. said. “Speaking of...

Nikki Haley was once a darling of the Republican Party, if not conservative movement. Now, she stands isolated after an attempt to distance herself from former President Donald Trump. In fact, the Conservative Political Action Conference opens Thursday and will not feature Haley, the former ambassador to the U.N. and South Carolina governor. -snip- "Haley has never understood the president and seems to not understand where the base of the party is," a source told The Hill. Trump declined to meet with her at Mar-a-Lago last week, per the report.

Tom Cotton at CPAC. Maybe he's not a total fantard of Ditch.

When Congressman Matt Gaetz spoke at CPAC Friday — proudly calling himself a “Florida man” — he went on a tear against Cheney to applause from the crowd. Gaetz talked about “whip[ping] the establishment,” and then added, “Speaking of people who ought to lose primaries…” “If Liz Cheney were on this stage today, she would get booed off of it!” Gaetz said. As the crowd cheered, he continued,

The Conservative Political Action Conference, the country’s largest conservative conference, is dedicating the largest portion of its program to election integrity this year. The Feb. 25-28 conference features at least nine program points focused on elections, including seven part series of talks on “Protecting Elections,” a panel titled “Shining a Light on the Left’s 2020 Shadow Campaign,” and a discussion with election lawyers dubbed “The Voter Files: The Truth is Out There.”

He is scheduled to take the stage at 3:40 p.m. Eastern Time on Sunday. ***** The CPAC website has a Watch Live feature for those interested in tuning in to Trump’s first official public appearance since leaving office.

DeSantis calls Florida an "oasis of freedom" at CPAC. Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis kicked off CPAC on Friday slamming the "failed Republican establishment of yesteryear." "Now, Florida's leading on the issues that matter to conservatives, we don't spout hollow rhetoric, we take decisive action," DeSantis said on the opening day of the annual gathering of conservatives. "And what's true in Florida it's true for conservatives across the nation. We cannot, woe will not go back to the days of the failed Republican establishment of yesteryear." The event is being held this year in DeSantis' home state, in the city...

Texas Senator Ted Cruz delivered an explosive speech at CPAC Friday morning before a packed crowd in Orlando; telling conservative voters that Donald Trump “ain’t going anywhere!” “They look at Donald Trump and the millions of people who went to battle fighting alongside him and they’re terrified. They want him to go away. Let me tell you this right now: Donald J. Trump ain’t going anywhere,” said Cruz. “The Republican Party is not the party of the country clubs, it’s the party of steel workers and construction workers and taxi drivers and cops and firefighters and waitresses,” he added. “That...

Florida’s Governor kicked off Friday’s proceedings at the Conservative Political Action Conference with a rousing speech that demonstrated that, should the former President not run again in 2024, the activists on the right could rally behind him. -snip- “We cannot, we will not go back to the days of the failed Republican establishment of yesteryear,” DeSantis thundered, to thunderous applause in the hall. “We reject open borders and instead support American sovereignty and the American worker. Building a movement on the foundation of amnesty and cheap foreign labor is like building a house on quicksand,” DeSantis added. “We reject weakness...