CPAC 2021 live: latest updates like Rubio’s speech mysteriously canceled at the last minute

Marco Rubio said that his speech at the CPAC scheduled for this morning was canceled due to an “unexpected family problem”.

“I was really looking forward to it. But, as I told @mschlapp, they should move #cpac to #Florida permanently, ”he added.

Donald Trump’s former acting director of national intelligence, Rick Grennell, took the stage at CPAC.

He begins, somewhat blatantly, by complaining about the politicization of intelligence – something that Grennell took to unprecedented levels during his brief stint at the top of the United States intelligence committee.

The CPAC started the day in Florida, continuing to make false claims about mass fraud in the presidential election.

A video montage of the November vote promoted a series of statements that were rejected by experts and courts across the country. He was also angered by the alleged mistreatment of conservatives by social media companies.

For reasons still unknown, Marco Rubio’s scheduled appearance at CPAC was canceled minutes earlier, according to Washington Post reporter Dave Weigel.

Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio will start the CPAC today when he makes “comments” at 8:45 am – in just over half an hour – before 9:00 am there will be a half-hour lecture entitled “Sell Outs: The Devaluing of American Citizenship”.

He will feature Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who infamously led an attempt to overturn the election in favor of Donald Trump in the Supreme Court. It will also feature representatives Yvette Herrell and Paul Gosar.

If you thought Trump’s golden statues, refusals to wear a mask in the middle of a global pandemic and double the unmasked allegations of electoral fraud that led to a deadly uprising were almost the peak of the CPAC that we were going to have, wait because there are an amazing one minute video here to say “hold my drink”.

The clip was apparently part of a video package shown at the conservative pro-Trump conference on Friday. It shows the Japanese political scientist and “Samurai Futurologist” Gemki Fujii (sometimes transcribed as “Genki Fujii”) talking lyrically about the former president.

CPAC itself promoted Fujii’s support for Trump, tweeting about his appearance on Thursday and referring to him as “the last samurai”, directing participants to visit his booth to hear Fujii’s “vision of the threat of Chinese communism “.

Footage taken by a Bloomberg reporter shows Jim Acosta of CNN at CPAC being surrounded by Trump supporters, one of whom exclaims, “Take it, take it” while speaking to the crowd.

Some then started shouting “CNN sucks!”, A song popularized at Trump’s rallies before he lost the presidency.

Several Republican lawmakers said they were unable to appear in Congress on Friday to vote for the pandemic coronavirus stimulus package, but should attend in person at the conservative conference in Orlando, Florida this weekend.

According to CNN, Republican lawmakers included those who were former President Donald Trump’s closest allies – some of whom should speak at this weekend’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Florida.

The group of twelve House Republicans said they were unable to attend a series of votes in the House of Representatives that day “due to the ongoing public health emergency,” in a written letter seen by CNN.

Former Nixon White House adviser John Dean called Ted Cruz a “pathetic guy” and a “talkative” after the Republican senator’s performance at the CPAC on Friday.

“Watching Senator Ted Cruz at CPAC. He’s not as charismatic as a mushroom, ”tweeted Mr. Dean.

“He made the transition to his Trumpian mode of future demagogue. But he doesn’t do it very well. He just screams and speaks loudly at this point. A pathetic guy who yearns for real power. May he never succeed! “

Joe Biden says the United States is “weeks ahead of schedule” and will be the first country in the world to have 100 million vaccinations.

The president made his confident statement at a federal vaccination site in Texas shortly after experts recommended Johnson & Johnson’s single injection vaccine for FDA authorization.

Biden told the crowd that the United States is now on track to reach its goal of 100 million vaccines in its first 100 days at the White House.