“The 2015 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) kicks off in Maryland Thursday, and a number of potential Republican presidential candidates are descending on the three-day event to woo the people whose votes they might need next year.
First held in 1973, CPAC has emerged as a marquee annual event for the American right wing: an opportunity for leading lights and rising stars to consult with one another and appraise the political figures who could stake a claim to their allegiance. The organizers bill the event as the “nation’s largest gathering of conservatives.”
“This really is the first chance that these folks will have to say before such a large audience, ‘This is who I am, this is what I believe in,'” said Ross Hemminger, a spokesman for the American Conservative Union, which spearheads CPAC.”* The Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur & John Iadarola break it down.
*Read more here:
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/which-2016-republican-has-the-most-to-prove-at-cpac-2015/
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