At CPAC, Joy Villa responds to criticism about Scientology and her views on abortion

Published February 23, 2018 10:09pm ET



She wears parachute pants and a blouse covered all over with little red hearts underneath a knitted Uncle Sam sweater. But that’s not why Joy Villa stands out at CPAC — a political conference best described as the Tea Party’s version of Comic-Con, complete with elderly conservatives in old-timey revolutionary garb and pimply college kids in ill-fitting K-Mart suits.

Villa is immediately recognizable because she is the only one at CPAC with a single on Billboard’s Top 100, and more importantly she is a pro-Trump celebrity.

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