Throughout the weekend, vanquished candidates took to the stages to their adoring fans. Donald Trump, Kari Lake and Jair Bolsonaro don’t want to admit defeat — and at CPAC, they don’t have to.
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Trump overwhelmingly won the straw poll, Lake was the headliner at the event’s Ronald Reagan Dinner and overwhelming favorite for Trump VP (her team’s vaunted legal advisors told her that she will have to refuse, since she can’t be governor and vice president at the same time) and Bolsonaro teased another presidential run of his own during his speech in Portuguese. Cockburn assumes this bid would take place in Brazil, even though he fled to Florida after his most recent defeat.
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