Trump and DeSantis split between two Republican events

Republican Party supporters are gathering outside Washington this week at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). The annual event will serve as the first temperature measurement formation with the 2024 presidential election on the horizon. Donald Trump will appear on the CPAC stage on Saturday.

In principle, the former president will be supported by his favorite public: the electoral base of the party. How he uses this platform is a mystery, but everything indicates that his team is trying to portray the next election only as a conflict between Trump and Joe Biden.

Ron DeSantis, The governor of Florida and Trump’s main rival for the nomination, decided to participate in another Republican event that will be held on the same dates in Palm Beach. This is a forum for donors organized by the Club for Growth, a conservative association focused on promoting tax cut policies.

The two events will share a speaker section. In this way, both forums will feature heavyweights like Ted Cruz or Rick Scott, as well as the other two candidates for the Republican primaries, Vivek Ramaswamy and Nikki Haleyasking for support.

Trump and DeSantis, however, will not see eye to eye. In a situation of intra-party division, everyone will come to one of the meetings. If CPAC has been one of Trump’s main supporters since 2016, the Club for Growth has tended to support alternative candidates.

The relationship between Trump and the Club for Growth was marked by ups and downs. Although the New Yorker had his support for most of his term, the organization was hesitant to endorse him when he announced his candidacy for 2016. Several conflicts over last November’s legislative elections caused the final break. So the former president he was not invited to this week’s Palm Beach resort.

In an interview with CBS, former Vice President Mike Pence ruled out supporting Donald Trump’s primary candidacy. “I’m confident we’ll have a better opportunity in 2024,” he said, referring to his boss between 2016 and 2020. Pence, who is considering his own candidacy, incurred the tycoon’s wrath when he refused to avoid certifying Joe Biden’s 2020 victory. ., the day of the attack on the Capitol. For Pence, the Trump era is a thing of the past and “Different times require different leadership”.

“There is still a lot of work left”

The movement was also noted among the Democrats. During a meeting with lawmakers from his party Wednesday night in Baltimore, Joe Biden highlighted the Legislature’s successes but warned that they should not slow down. “There’s a lot of work to be done,” he said.