According to new reporting from Mediaite, both ex-President Donald Trump and his estranged former Vice President Mike Pence are set to hold dueling speeches in Washington, D.C., in what will officially serve as the former president’s first return to the capital of the United States since the infamous, deadly January 6th Capitol attack. Both of the former leaders will be giving rival speeches regarding their own visions for the future of the Republican party.
The publication reports that scandal-ridden ex-President Trump is slated to deliver the closing address at the two-day summit that’s being put on by the America First Policy Institute. It’s likely that at least a portion of Donald Trump’s speech will focus on the possibility of a 2024 White House run, as Trump has begun to more regularly hint at the notion in public in recent weeks.
It is, of course, also expected that a good portion of the speech will center around his ongoing complaints about the 2020 presidential election — the very same conspiracy theory notions that helped to spur the deadly January 6th Capitol insurrection.
Mediaite reports:
The keynote speech will be Trump’s first time back in the capital since he left the city after refusing to attend the inauguration of his successor, President Joe Biden. The event also comes as the January 6 Committee produces numerous damaging insights into the former president over his actions before and after his supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol Building to overturn his election loss.”
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To make matters that much more dramatic, Trump’s big speech will be hot on the heels of Pence’s address he’s slated to give at the Young America’s Foundation’s National Conservative Student Conference; also in D.C.
ABC News reports that the former VP is expected to say, “Some people may choose to focus on the past, but I believe conservatives must focus on the future.”
The conflicting events highlight the efforts on both Trump and Pence’s part to try to shape the future of the GOP and comes shortly after rival appearances in Arizona, where Pence rallied for Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Karrin Taylor Robson, while Trump simultaneously campaigned for MAGA loyalist Kari Lake.
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