Posted on 04/25/2021 4:53:16 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
ORLANDO — Former President Donald Trump may be one of the most important influencers in the 2022 election, but House Republicans are huddling without him in his home state of Florida as they craft a message that can help them win back the majority next year.
Lawmakers gathered in Orlando beginning on Sunday for an annual, three-day issues conference to help chart a course on messaging and policy priorities for the next 18 months.
There will be no pep talk from the former GOP president, who helped create a schism within the party on what role, if any, Trump should play in the party's and House Republican's efforts to regain power.
Trump, who lives about a 2 1/2-hour drive south at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, is not attending, GOP leaders said last week. Instead, conservative talk show host and Daily Wire founder Ben Shapiro will serve as the keynote speaker for the event, which is hosted by the Congressional Institute.
Lawmakers began gathering on Sunday at the Omni Orlando Resort at ChampionsGate. The first event for lawmakers is dinner Sunday night with legendary football coach Lou Holtz.
On Monday, lawmakers will strategize on “how to work with the press.” They will hear from Bush White House press secretary Ari Fleischer and Trump White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel will address lawmakers at lunch the same day.
The session will focus on top policy issues and how the party should frame them in the months ahead.
Topics include security and “the threat of the Chinese Communist Party," with presentations from Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas, the top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and think tank experts, including Derek Scissors of the American...
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They are irrelevant.
Oh, good ol’ Ronna ROMNEY McDaniel. Got a supposed survey from her recently. I basically told her to pound sand.
RINOs figuring how to lie and bullchit just like their RAT cousins.
I wouldn’t vote for a damn one of them.
Good. 5 hours (round trip travel) Trump doesn’t have to waste.
Immigration is the only issue
You are absolutely correct!
I was a Mary Kay party.
I guess this means we kiss 2022 goodbye.
Huddling”, eh?
Nice how dismissive the media is...even for RINO’S.
We need to address the recent political Climate Change.
JEB McRomney says “Please clap, citizen.”
Yep immigration is the ONLY damn issue BUT don’t look for the IDIOT republicans to use this message!! NO WAY the open borders Dem assistants will say one word about illegal immigration i an DAMN DONE with the stinking party!! I am DAMN DONE voting, donating, door knocking, phoning, mailing ALL OF IT!!!! Until there is a NEW party SCREW THEM ALL!! Cheney will get her seat back BANK ON IT!!!
That’s what I’ve thought for the last 20 years.
Trump was the only one who got it.
Idiots.
That silly conference chair, Liz Cheney is going to screw around and fail to take the House back.
I predict she’ll lose seats.
Because she is so hated by the base.
“craft a message that can help them win back the majority next year.”
uh, huh. GOP RAPIDLY reverting back to their pre-Trump morass where “messaging” is more important than actions,guts, and truth ...
in other words, if “messaging” is the most important thing for them, then they basically stand for nothing except getting re-elected, they won’t do ANYTHING they say they’ll do, and it’s more or less pointless to elect any of them, since all they want is a small chair at the feeding trough ... ...
PANIC !!!!!!!!
I think it’s time to start considering part of our strategy is to start infiltrating the Republican Party, since the GOP is going the way of the Dodo Bird without Trump.
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