CPAC celebrates Trump as if he didn’t lose in 2020

Published February 27, 2021 2:30am ET



ORLANDO, Florida — Within the sunny confines of the Conservative Political Action Conference, former President Donald Trump did not lose reelection in November; he is simply not the president right now.

It has been more than a month since President Biden evicted Trump from the White House. Prominent Republicans who addressed conservative activists Friday at CPAC acknowledged as much, delivering a series of stirring calls to action to oppose the Democratic agenda in Washington, D.C. But missing from the program was any reassessment of Trump’s defeat and any role he played in the loss the GOP’s majority in the Senate in two subsequent runoff elections in Georgia.

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