Thousands of Republican faithful met outside Washington in the first big conservative to-do of 2020
, chairman of the American Conservative Union which runs CPAC — offered this advice on recruiting undecided voters to the cause: “Tell them it is no longer your grandfather’s Democratic Party.”
An informal sampling of college Republicans, who had traveled here from schools across the country, yielded a more sober assessment of Trump’s chances.“I think it will be tight,” said Olivia Higgins, a freshman at Carthage College in Kenosha, Wis. “A lot of my peers, even most, are very liberal.” “Isn’t this interesting? It’s a microcosm!” marveled John Folsom as he watched the spectacle. A political “agnostic”, Folsom said he had come to CPAC to do outreach for a veteran’s support group in Omaha “That’s what I like about America,” he said."You’ve got a free exchange of ideas, you’ve got two people who obviously don’t agree with each other. It’s an argument, not a discussion.”
“My father-in law was probably like so many people in his room, so frustrated by what he saw happening to his country, and the wasteful spending," said, Lara Trump, the president’s daughter-in-law and a campaign adviser. “I don’t know if anyone remembers the
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