CPAC or Trump-PAC? Conservative conference delegates stick with Donald Trump - USA TODAY

Delegates to conservative political conference say they don't know if Trump will run again in 2024, but they would be fine with it.

The Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, is about to kick off and a very familiar face will be headlining.

ORLANDO –  This year's Conservative Political Action Conference often looks like the Donald Trump Political Action Conference, an alliance of interests that will permeate the Republican Party for years.

Roaming the convention space of a luxury hotel near Disney World, CPAC delegates wear Make America Great Again hats and display Trump pins.

"This (conference) is conservative, and conservatives are for Trump," said Tommy Zegan, 61, the artist and creator of the work he calls "Trump and the Magic Wand.".

Matt Schlapp, chairman of the American Conservative Union and an organizer of CPAC, said it is "the Conservative Political Action Conference that loves Donald Trump because he was a great president.".

A woman takes a photo with a golden Donald Trump statue at the Conservative Political Action (CPAC) conference on Friday, Feb.

CPAC members also said they like other potential candidates who used the conference, the nation's gathering of conservative activists, to promote ideas ranging from lower taxes to implacable opposition to President Joe Biden and his administration.

The return of Donald Trump: CPAC puts the Republican 2024 presidential primary front and center.

Some outside political analysts said CPAC has sold out to the cult of Trump, despite his election loss and his proximity to the Jan.

Two days before Trump's re-emergence into political life, CPAC delegates heard from other possible Republican presidential candidates, including Florida Gov.

Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., the House's third-ranking Republican, who this week said Trump should not be part of the Republican Party's future.

Nearly all the attendees in Orlando wore masks – some emblazoned with Trump or MAGA logos – but the concept of social distancing fell apart when delegates massed near celebrities like Cruz or Fox News host Judge Jeanine Pirro

Some CPAC delegates said they expect Trump to run, some said he may decline, and most said no one knows for sure

If he does run, they said, he can count on support from groups like CPAC

Vendors ranged from the Conservative Curriculum – "Building a Biblical Worldview" – to "Atheists for Liberty;" there are the "Young Conservatives For Carbon Dividends," and there are "Cigar Smokers for Trump."

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