Trump and the RNC worked together during the 2020 election and raised money through a joint fundraising committee.

While conservatives spoke abut real issues, some leftists were busy trying to compare the shape of the CPAC stage to a Nazi rune.

'This debate needs more precision, not less. What pages in the Dr. Seuss books are objectionable? TV stories on this won't show any images.'

The polls have been wrong before, but CPAC data seems to provide a decent look at the 2024 Republican presidential primary field taking shape.

'Events have radically turned political realities upside down in just six weeks. We should expect far more volatility in the next four years.'

'The Republican platform is a foreign, often ominous prospect in black households that have supported the Democratic ticket for decades.'

'They've literally left this current administration without excuse,' he said. 'If the Trump administration can do it, then anyone can do it.'

'Anybody who thinks that Donald Trump is leaving the stage is guilty of the most wishful thinking on the planet.'

'We are too worried about offending our neighbor and we should be 100 percent worried about offending the heart of God,' Johnson said.

'Trumpism,' former President Donald Trump said at CPAC, 'means low taxes and eliminating job-killing regulations.'