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    It's All About Trump: CPAC Seems Poised To Ignore Republican Identity Crisis

    The former president will headline the annual conservative conference with a Sunday address, his first speech since leaving office. His baseless election fraud claims could also get heavy play.
    by Domenico Montanaro Feb 25, 2021 5 minutes
    Then-President Donald Trump waves at the crowd during the 2020 Conservative Political Action Conference. This year, Trump is out of office but is still headlining the event.

    When the annual Conservative Political Action Conference — CPAC for short — kicks off Thursday in Orlando, Fla., it might as well be called TPAC.

    That's because this year, it is all about Trump.

    The former president will headline the event with a Sunday afternoon keynote address, his first speech since leaving office last month.

    It comes as the Republican Party is struggling with its identity after Donald Trump's presidency. And yet CPAC, the largest gathering of conservative activists in the U.S., will still very much be a pro-Trump event.

    The conference, organized and sponsored by the American Conservative Union, will even keep alive Trump's false claims of election fraud with on the topic with names like "Other Culprits: Why Judges & Media Refused to Look at the Evidence," "The Left Pulled the Strings, Covered It Up, and Even Admits It" and "Failed

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