During last year’s event, held months after Trump’s loss to President Joe Biden, CPAC held a seven-part panel series on “protecting elections.” This year’s conference agenda featured one event devoted to 2020, election administration and voting laws, though it was not openly advertised as such…
Recent polling, candidate fundraising numbers and actions of Republican statehouse leaders have suggested that while Trump continues to fixate on 2020, others have moved on or would like to do so — and that some in the GOP have found a limit to their tolerance of the election denial antics of Trump allies…
Charlie Black, a longtime Republican lobbyist, told NBC News that “except for a small group,” Republican voters “don’t care about 2020 anymore.”
“If you look at Trump’s polling among Republicans, it has been going down all year,” he said. “And the more he rants and raves about the election being stolen, the more it’ll keep going down. If he did want to run again, he’s got to shut that up and start talking about the future, but he’s not.”
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