CPAC 2023: Is Donald Trump speaking at this year’s event?

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Mr Trump will be Saturday night’s headliner once again, seeking to re-establish his grip over the Republican Party in the wake of November’s disappointing midterm results and the emergence of Florida governor Ron DeSantis as a serious potential challenger for the GOP’s presidential nomination in 2024. The Independent’s John Bowden predicts he will “make his case for the GOP putting its support behind him a third time – or, more likely, he will seek to trash and denigrate his rivals, both actual and potential.” We can certainly expect plenty of jibes at Mr Biden, whom he recently complained on Truth Social was leading the country “to oblivion”, not least over the decision to visit Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv but not the inhabitants of East Palestine, Ohio. Other MAGA Republicans speaking will be Donald Trump Jr and his fiancée Kimberly Guilfoyle, controversy-stokers Marjorie Taylor Greene, Matt Gaetz, Ted Cruz, Jim Jordan, Elise Stefanik, JD Vance and Candace Owens plus Trump hangers-on Sean Spicer and Devin Nunes.