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CPAC

Trump is downplaying the importance of a vice presidential pick, which suggests he’ll ultimately select someone competent and boring—you know, the Mike Pence type.
Peter Hamby • January 29, 2024

The Apprentice

The media chatter around Trump’s vice presidential search is rightly derided as an overhyped and silly guessing game—the product of bored reporters and TV people paying way too much attention to a closely held decision that probably won’t matter anyway. But here we go…
Tina Nguyen • March 8, 2023
CPACalypse Now
Has CPAC transformed from a big-tent activist spectacle into a polarizing MAGA-world sideshow?
An insider’s analysis of how D.C.’s preeminent conservative political summit lost its clout.
Tara Palmeri & Tina Nguyen • January 30, 2023
Trump’s Triangle of Sadness
Former president Donald Trump will headline CPAC.
News and notes from around this town on the Republicans off their talking points: the future of CPAC, Trump’s soft start, debt ceiling pressure points, and more.