Former Trump campaign adviser and Donald Trump Jr. fiancee Kimberly Guilfoyle addressed CPAC on Friday to a tiny and apparently less than enthused audience.
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The applause at the end lol pic.twitter.com/8R1bMPhj6T
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As Guilfoyle said, “All of us in this room have one message to Joe Biden. It is time to put America first.”
The camera then cut to the audience, which was a sea of empty seats and a few people offering tepid applause.
MAGA is now a fringe extremist movement. The most frequent comments about CPAC 2023 have been that it is being attended by Trump supporters and the speeches draw small crowds.
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Polling shows that Trump has enough of a lock on the Republican primary electorate to be the frontrunner for the party’s 2024 nomination. Still, the lack of a crowd and the lack of energy at CPAC suggests that MAGA is running on fumes.
Ron DeSantis isn’t the answer that some Republicans are hoping for because he isn’t offering a different vision or direction for the GOP. DeSantis is trying to out-MAGA Trump.
The Republican Party seems worn out, tired, and ready to run the same failed ideas and strategies that haven’t worked in almost eight years.
Republicans increasingly resemble a zombie party. Externally they look alive, but they are dead inside. Even at a conference filled to the gills with his supporters, the excitement is clearly missing, as it seems like MAGA is dying.
Jason is the managing editor. He is also a White House Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.
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