CPAC 2026 is scheduled to begin March 25 through March 28 in Grapevine, Texas. Interestingly, President Trump not scheduled to speak at the event; neither is JD Vance, Marco Rubio or any other potential GOP 2028 nominee including Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
There are a few cabinet members scheduled as speakers [SEE HERE], however, all of the major MAGA politicians are not in attendance. It will be interesting to see if the attendance at CPAC 2026 is impacted.
The absence of Donald Trump, JD Vance, Marco Rubio, Ron DeSantis or any other major MAGA-era politician is not that surprising given the commercialized nature and evolution of the organization under the leadership of Matt and Mercedes Schlapp. The Schlapp’s are highly focused on affluence and considerably disconnected from the MAGA base.
When you chase money, you end up with traditional Republican outcomes. The corporate assembly that CPAC became has been spiraling downward in influence for the past dozen years. However, it is still remarkable to see just how diminished the organization has become.
Steve Bannon remains on the schedule to speak, and the remaining list of easily identifiable speakers resembles a Bannon podcast guest list. There are several foreign ‘conservatives’ scheduled to participate, but there are zero potential 2028 candidates in the currently displayed list of speakers. Ted Cruz will be there.


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Grift and Gab Fest.
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RINOs, CINOs and moderates are definitely on the way out.
I don’t like CPAC falling off a cliff like this, but it is 100% deserved. Ted Cruz??
The first two letters are incorrect. The acronym is actually pronounced A-PAC, not C-PAC.
Isn’t that what’s used to treat the chy-na-flu?
POTUS not attending CPAC.
SD: “neither is JD Vance, Marco Rubio or any other potential GOP 2028 nominee including Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.”
Follow POTUS, I am pleased to see ^^ this united front.
I am glad Ted Cruz will be there. In Hillary Clinton Russia Hoax style, Ted has been accused of being an Israeli Firster.
Serious charge. Imagine someone accusing you of trading your loyalty to America for another country.
It’s good Mueller is dead for another reason. We can see how his evidence free Russia Hoax mirrors the Israeli Haters now — no evidence for their serious accusation, just accuse and appeal to the lowest side of human nature.
Tucker Carlson is Robert Mueller — same psyop.
I thought Tucker was supposed to be Hitler this week
Questioning the official narrative results in lots of name calling and threats
Apparently Bibi went after two of Tucker’s family members to get at Tucker
for not goose stepping with the Israel First apparatus
If true, what does that say about Netenyahu?
weird.
“There are zero presidential 2028 presidential candidates attending. Ted Cruz will be there. “
SD, I see what you did there and love it !
Amazing how we now treat CPAC as the enemy in here.
Irrelevant
Whoops _- should have read more comments before I posted! 😷
I so miss Dutch! 😢💕
CPAC is one increasingly irrelevant cog in the machine trying to split the MAGA base. They are failing bigly.
A new poll from J.L. Partners shows that 83% of Republican voters support Epic Fury.
CPAC, Ted “Wolfman Jack” Cruz, the oafish Steve Bannon and “Change the T to an F” Carlson are irrelevant. They represent a fraction of the 7% not supporting Epic Fury and President Trump.
Let’s all focus on making the 83% even stronger and ignore the noise making buffoons.
Cruise is all in with anything Bibi wants
Questioning the Narrative is healthy
if the only rebuttal is name calling and threats, the official narrative must be very weak.
<Cruise is all in with anything Bibi wants.>
Netanyahu taking it steady…using Cruise Control 🙂
As the saying goes…
If you want to know who is in control…Just look at who you can’t criticize.
Put a cherry on top of CPAC, invite Mike Pence.
Not sure who Mike Pence might be — Did you mean Judas Pence?
How ironic to for 30pence appear during Holy Week on the anniversary Judas’s betrayal.
IMHO, Pence could be a splitter of even the cpac crowd. 👍🏼
I opened the link to the list of speakers, and I wish I hadn’t. Gordon Chang? Ken Paxton? Tim Burchett? Hopefully these aren’t 100% political opportunists – maybe they’re a few outliers to make the establishment types use their brains?
Burchett may be the only truly MAGA guy in Washington DC. He may not be a millionaire, just a good old Tennessee MAGA guy.
Not every speaker at these events are pure opportunists. Ken Paxton should take every chance he gets to speak to a large audience.
Apparent by your comment you know dang little of Tom Burchett.
Tim
I wish that people would stop talking about “MAGA,” as in “Tea Party,” and start focusing on: Make America Great Again!”
Back in the days when we still had “in-flight magazines,” Dr. Chester Karrass taught us all that “in life, you don’t get what you deserve – you get what you negotiate.” And, over the past eighty years or so, we have had some spectacularly bad negotiators!
No one, other than you, is ever going to fight for you. Why should they? They’re preoccupied with fighting for themselves! So, if you are not fighting to protect your own [national] interests, you are losing. And no one is going to correct you. Why should they?
Never mind the “four-letter acronyms on a red hat.” This is not(!) “a movement.” This is common sense. (Or maybe: “the morning after a very-drunken binge?”)
You’re sitting down at another negotiating table, and every one of your opponents is fighting to put their interests first! “Suh-prize, suh-prize.” Welcome to private-citizen Donald Trump’s world, in which he thrived. Private-citizen even wrote books about it: listen to him!
P.S.: “Eighty-odd years of stupidity” are not going to be remedied in four nor eight years. We didn’t get here overnight, and we’re not going to get out of here that way, either.
If Nick Fuentes holds a competing event across the street
he will have a bigger turn out
and lots of open debate on policies and the future than CPAC
Does anyone under 40 attend CPAC?
..mark levin kids/grandkids…..
To me, “conservative” has become an epithet. It connotes mentally bankrupt politicians who bandy about the word solely to gain a money-making position. This website is the exception to the rule.
From my perspective, “republican” is the epithet.
I’m proudly conservative and that’s about reverting to our constitution as the rule book.
Allow me to suggest, Tryanny Unmasked, by Senator John Taylor.
Written in 1822, the book may be purchased as paperback or Kindle.
… Tyranny …
If my typing fingers ever obey, I will bake a cake and have a party.
CPAC dream team:
Mitt Romney
Meghan McCain
William Kristol
Candace Owens
Thomas Massie
Kanye West
Dan Crenshaw
Creepy Pols And Cons.
Joe Kent
Dan Bongino
Mike Pence
Nikki Haley
Joe Scarborough
Michael Steele
Adam Kinzinger
Liz Chaney
Paul Ryan
Kevin McCarthy
CCRAP?
Ha!
I’ve never trusted the Schlappsters. Money mongers ( and late night hotel cocktail lounge cruiser).
Definitely the lounge lizard types. Always make my skin crawl when they appear.
The CPAC politics show: Schlappschtick
Will Pierre Delecto be there?
If he can get help strapping the dog carrier on the roof of the SUV.
IF this is the Trump team’s way of anti-endorsing the Schlapps and CPAC, then that makes it even more interesting that DeSantis is also not appearing. Is this an updated measure of MAGA’s political sway, that future contenders must now bear the MAGA brand–even as camouflage?
I’m also curious if, by default, this makes Cruz the keynote speaker?
Will the Sea Islanders use the event to audition some potential future talent from within the fold*?
* While “fold” is the appropriate structural term for a sheep pen, the proper term biologically is a “crash” of rhinos.
Actually, it is a crap of rinos.
Orchestrated media narrative blitz on Ron DeHeels yesterday and today. He says he would have won 2024 if President trump did not run. Articles selling how renegade his CVD response was. Of course, no mention of his anti-Trump response to Mar A Lago raid and his refusal to say any variant of President Trump’s name for a very long time. Remember when he went to Israel for creditability when he was not, but was, campaigning for President?
Guess he lost Tucker’s vote with that move… 😉
So put that in your pipe and smoke it.
The final nail in the coffin for me with CPAC (and Bannon), was when Jake Lang was thrown out of CPAC last year, and Bannon completely ignored the story. I am not a huge fan of Lang, but they are very biased on who they determine to be a “conservative”. CPAC is nothing but a grifting organization that has basically become RNC lite.
Of course lying Ted will be there.🤣
I was invited two years ago to appear on a panel at a CPAC event on the left coast. I appeared but was ashamed to post about it on social media. I simply didn’t want the public association.
That’s one way to deflate the old guard.
I wonder. Is there a PAC in the US that gives money to politicians which represent other countries?
Thats called the USAID
President Trump and VP Vance need to focus on Iran rather than CPAC
Ted Cruz will still be there, but of course he will be.
Well, Ted Cruz is a Senator from Texas. I still like him.
He is my Senator and he holds the line pretty good.
Cornniewine is the other one and he came for our guns once in Texas
I’m feeling the assassination intel is too hot for this year.
Rubio and Vance look like the next man up for MAGA.
Cant lose all 3 at once, hence the absences.
Cruz and Miss Lindsey are welcome to attend
Scheduling conflict. Miss Lindsey is busy getting her nails done that day.
Play date with Bondi ?
“I’m feeling the assassination intel is too hot for this year.”
Legitimate possibility. I’m thinking something less nefarious. Maybe Trump feels he’s already got a lock on the mid terms, so doesn’t need to expend any political capital.
Attended CPAC once, in 2009. The CPAC that Rush was the speaker. It was fun, had 6 of us gals who all listened to Rush everyday who attended. I’d never go again but for Rush – YES!
Creepy
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Matt and Mercedes Crap represent what is wrong with the RINO wing of the Republican Party. I wish I could Schlapp them across the face to wake them up.
Lauged out loud reading your last sentence, Sundance.
“Ted Cruz will be there.”
Lyin’ Ted is one of the “zero potential 2028 candidates” for sure.
Lyin’ Ted will be there to bestow his blessings upon the wanna-be presidential prospect of his choice. Be sure to rise when he enters the room.
Will the CPAC convention look like a modern sports stadium, complete with their corporate sponsor’s logos plastered all over the walls? Maybe Thiel can build the stage to look like a scene from Lord of the Rings………..
Methinks he and his Cabinet have better things to do this weekend as his 5 day delay in bombing Iran’s energy infrastructure expires…………
Have thought for a long time, this pair are hustlers!
“Ted Cruz will be there.” Said as an afterthought – and rightfully so.
Good, I’m glad he’s not attending.
God bless President Donald Trump!
And America!
And the people who run, and visit, this Treehouse!
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Affluenza.
Hahaha SD. Love the leg sweep input of “Ted Cruz” will be there. As a future Supreme Court nominee or 28 runner? Which suit will he portray?
Momma told me not to go. Ain’t no way to have fun, son. Mamma told me not to go.
reconciliation is strictly limited to budgetary matters under Senate rules. Policy-heavy legislation, like the SAVE America Act, faces near-certain rejection under the Byrd Rule, which allows the Senate parliamentarian to strip out provisions deemed unrelated to federal spending or revenue.
The President is in good company.
I will not be attending either.
Who signed up for the Jeb Bush side seminar ?
Maybe I’ll change my mind.
This topic is extremely petty, childish even. We have enough to battle with the evil leftist communists. We don’t need to be eating our own.
It sounds like something personal that should probably stay in that realm. This continuing attack is just sad.
From his actions Bannon is concerned with saving Texas from an Islamist takeover and getting Paxton in the senate, not with Cruz. All Bannon’s topics are very MAGA.
Everyone knows who Cruz is and his ambitions and shifting loyalties. He’s a problem like Lindsey Graham is but for different reasons. There are a lot of problem people in Congress and the judiciary.
If you haven’t noticed, President Trump and his entire cabinet are very busy. It is up to other leaders willing to step up to organize and rally the base for the midterms.
President Trump needs to spend what time he has available at his rallies in the important states and endorsing candidates for the midterms.
Agreed. A shame your post resonated with so few.
But if you were anti CPAC the mockingbirds would love you.
Disappointing! They weren’t asked, or they couldn’t come?
I scrolled through yhe list of speakers. There are some solid names there.
To those of you dospataging the event, how many of you have looked through the list and recognized the names?
You may not like the event or who is funding it, but do not disparage because you were told to do so.
Victor Marx is on the list of speakers. Do you disparage him?
There are other names which are equally laudable.
Sundance, again, you have used the PERFECT PHOTO to capture the spirit of your post. The looks on those faces are priceless.
I love CTH!
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Let’s not treat CPAC as an irredeemable enemy. That might be “splitting” the electorate we need for future winning. Criticize, yes; enemy, no. IMHO.
Bet Nikki Haley will be at CPAC. (Pretending she’s a conservative). Maybe even Paul Ryan (gag).
How did Matt Schlapp become the head of CPAC?
Paul Ryan never attended cpac. Haley did when she was running for president looking to court everyone. Not sure where you are getting your info.
Sounds like you never watch it in the past.