WATCH LIVE: CPAC 2025 Day 2

By Jennifer Van Laar | 12:28 PM on February 21, 2025

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A number of us from Team RedState are on site at CPAC 2025 in National Harbor, Maryland, and we can't get enough of the #WINNING and celebratory atmosphere. We'll be covering individual speakers throughout the weekend but thought our readers might like a place to watch (and, for our VIP members, comment upon/discuss the happenings), so you can do that right here.

Friday's lineup is quite impressive. The morning started with a number of speakers from foreign countries that will be starting their own CPAC conferences, then my Townhall Media colleagues Kurt Schlichter and Larry O'Connor held a lively panel discussion about the mental breakdown of the legacy media - particularly people like Joy Reid and Kara Swisher - in the second Trump term.

Friday afternoon features Ric Grenell, Byron Donalds, HUD Secretary Scott Turner, Megyn Kelly, Doug Collins, Mike Benz, Karoline Leavitt, and more.

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