Former Vice President Mike PenceMichael (Mike) Richard PenceLawyer, who filed a lawsuit to reverse the 2020 election results, referred by judge for Fauci discipline: Scientists had “no direction” from Trump in the last days of the presidency Trump rejected the meeting in Mar-a-Lago with Nikki Haley MORE declined the invitation to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) next week, according to several reports.
Organizers of the annual Conservative conference want to change the former president’s opinion on attendance or comment, an unidentified source confirmed to CNN.
Another unidentified source confirmed to the media that Pence plans to stay out of the headlines at least six months after leaving office in January.
The former vice-president announced earlier this month that he would join the Heritage Foundation as a distinguished visiting fellow. He is also ready to start a podcast, write a monthly publication, and speak at conferences and colleges with a new role as Ronald Reagan’s presidential academic at the conservative Young America’s Foundation.
CPAC will kick off Thursday in Orlando, Florida. The annual conference will end next Sunday, with the first President TrumpDonald Trump Governors in hot water for his response to the DOJ coronavirus investigating whether Alex Jones and Roger Stone played a role in the Jan. 6 riots: Did WaPo Biden support “human rights with Chinese characteristics”? MONTH ready to deliver the final speech in his first public appearance since leaving the White House last month.
Two sources familiar with the matter confirmed to The Hill that the former president will talk about the future of the Republican Party and the Conservative movement. He is also expected to attack President BidenJoe Biden: Nearly 70 deaths in states with severe winter weather: Two more confirmed deaths in Louisiana related to severe winter weather are reported. The lawyer who filed a lawsuit to reverse the 2020 election results, referred by the judge by disciplineimmigration platform.
The annual conference is traditionally held in Maryland, but this year it was moved to Orlando to avoid strict coronavirus restrictions.
The conference comes amid an intra-party struggle between Republicans for Trump’s place in the Republican Party. While some lawmakers have called for continued support for the president, others have urged the party to move forward.
Trump last week released a statement downloading the Senate minority leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnell Trump will speak at the CPAC in his first public appearance since he left the White House Biden seeks to escape Trump’s ghost of white Christian nationalism and the next wave of political violence MORE (R-Ky.), Calling him a “bold, grumpy, unsmiling political pirate” and blaming him for the loss of majority control of the Senate by Republicans in 2020.
Trump also pledged to support challengers to Republicans who have been vocal critics of his administration.
The Hill has contacted Pence and the American Conservative Union, which hosts CPAC, to comment.