Plus: Trump Pledges to ‘Totally Obliterate the Deep State’: ‘I Am Your Retribution’
March 6 2023
Good morning from Washington, where ears still burn after the adjournment just miles away of the Conservative Political Action Conference, the nation’s largest such annual gathering. Donald Trump fired up the crowd with a pledge to fight for ordinary Americans, Jarrett Stepman writes. Our other reports from CPAC include Tyler O’Neil on Tulsi Gabbard’s calling out of the trans movement; Virginia Allen on Rep. Mark Green and the border crisis; and Samantha Aschieris on Rep. Dan Bishop and the status of impeachment inquiries. Plus: Ohio successfully secures its elections, and swimmer Riley Gaines asks feminists to defend women’s sports. On this date in 1820, President James Monroe signs into law the Missouri Compromise, allowing Maine to join the union as a free state while Missouri joins as a slave state.
The former Democratic presidential candidate says some elements in that party undermine Americans' "God-given rights" and weaponize agencies against those “they're supposed to be serving."
A female swimmer who faced a transgender opponent calls it “extremely ironic that the people advocating for this are … the same people who were once advocating for the empowerment of women.”
