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David Smith in Oxon Hill, Maryland

Immigration, Ukraine distrust and January 6 games: Republican agenda on display at CPAC

Conference attendees gaze at a poster of former president Donald Trump at the Conservative Political Action Conference on 22 February 2024.
Conference attendees gaze at a poster of former president Donald Trump at the Conservative Political Action Conference on 22 February 2024. Photograph: Shawn Thew/EPA

A digital pinball game defending the January 6 insurrection. A panel discussion called Putting Our Heads in the Gas Stove. An eager crowd watching agent provocateur Steve Bannon interview former British prime minister Liz Truss for a tiny online audience.

Every year the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, conjures a theatre of the absurd beside the Potomac River. This week something else slowly came into focus: three pillars of a Republican agenda that the party believes will provide a winning formula in the 2024 elections.

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