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"contents": "<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) happens this weekend and Trump is expected to speak on the future of the Republican Party. At the conference in 2020, Trump told the audience they were “exposing the corruption of the Washington Democrats and we’re draining the Washington swamp... I never knew the swamp was so bad… ”</span>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/bFQDBTwh-8k\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 2021 CPAC starts on 25 February. The </span><a href=\"https://cpac.conservative.org/agenda/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">agenda</span></a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> says it will kick off with a “Jewish Prayer Service”, followed by an invitation-only “International Reception”.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Friday is a full day starting at 8.30am, covering topics such as: “Why the Left Hates the Bill of Rights... and We Love It.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Texan Senator Ted Cruz is also on the Friday speakers’ bill. His topic: “Bill of Rights, Liberty, and Cancel Culture.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Texan is currently best known as Cancun Cruz, after he left his constituents to deal with extreme weather and infrastructure failures in Texas. Battered in all media – right and left – Cruz tried to explain his actions: “This has been a hell of a week for Texas... You can work remotely, that was my intention, but it was a mistake.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The senator and his family were seen at the airport in Houston and boarding a flight to sunny Cancun on Wednesday as a severe winter storm lashed Texas, causing power outages, impassable roads, burst pipes and even deaths. Power outages saw people use their cars for warmth and to charge devices. Supermarkets ran out of food and drinking water and could not replenish shelves as unplowed roads were not passable. Pictures were soon circulating on social media and then mainstream media and Cruz was lashed by his constituency as well as politicians – blue and red. </span>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://apnews.com/article/ted-cruz-mexico-vacation-amid-storm-b0cdc326db95bf25d93de9e877e05862\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Returning to Texas a day later</span></a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Cruz said he had made a mistake and realised he needed to be in Texas. He is also known to be contemplating </span><a href=\"https://www.statesman.com/news/20190925/i-hope-to-run-again-ted-cruz-eyes-another-presidential-race---in-2024\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the 2024 presidential race.</span></a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cruz is not the only big MAGA figure at CPAC on Friday. While he is on in the morning, “political activist” Trump Jnr is up later that afternoon. His topic is: “Reigniting the Spirit of the American Dream.”</span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> </span></i>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trump Jnr took to Twitter on Friday to defend Cruz’s hardly-thought-out idea to fly to a warm city while his constituents froze. He then tried to blame Texas’ Democrat governor, seeming to forget that Texas is run by Republican Greg Abbott.</span>\r\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\r\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The hypocrisy of those trying to cancel Ted Cruz who have been totally silent on their Democrat Governor’s incompetence is telling. My thoughts on the Cancún Cruz fauxoutrage! <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cruz?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Cruz</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/CancunGate?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CancunGate</a> is fake. <a href=\"https://t.co/WnYe1onpIK\">https://t.co/WnYe1onpIK</a></p>\r\n— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1362539576963837952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 18, 2021</a></blockquote>\r\n<script async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He then reacted to widespread criticism of his not knowing that Texas has a Republican governor by tweeting on Saturday: </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">FACT CHECK: Did Donald Trump Jr Say Texas Has A Democratic Governor? | Check Your Fact.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trump Jnr’s dad is on the agenda to close the conference on Sunday, 28 February: “3:40 PM President Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Former vice-president Mike Pence is reported to also have been invited but has declined. The two conflicting responses could also illustrate how deeply the split inside the Republican party runs with regards to support for Donald Trump and the way forward.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In an interview at the weekend Pence’s chief of staff said they “accept Joe Biden is the duly elected president of the United States”. More Republicans are speaking out against another Trump presidency, with Arkansas governor Asa Hutchinson saying: “I would not support him for president in 2024. 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