
5 takeaways from CPAC's summer gathering in Texas
CNN
The Conservative Political Action Conference's summer gathering in Dallas over the weekend showcased the hold President Donald Trump -- and the conspiracy theories he is touting -- have over the Republican Party's activist base.
In his 90-minute speech Sunday, Trump repeated his now-familiar lie that widespread voter fraud cost him the 2020 election. Throughout the weekend, Republicans picked up on Trump's themes, bashing President Joe Biden's administration's management of the border, seizing on the former President's grievances against social media companies and complaining about critical race theory.
Pipe bomb suspect told FBI he targeted US political parties because they were ‘in charge,’ memo says
The man accused of placing two pipe bombs in Washington, DC, on the eve of the January 6, 2021, riot at the US Capitol told investigators after his arrest that he believed someone needed to “speak up” for people who believed the 2020 election was stolen and that he wanted to target the country’s political parties because they were “in charge,” prosecutors said Sunday.

Vivek Ramaswamy barreled into politics as a flame-thrower willing to offend just about anyone. He declared America was in a “cold cultural civil war,” denied the existence of white supremacists, and referred to one of his rivals as “corrupt.” Two years later, Ramaswamy says he wants to be “conservative without being combative.”











