For the last eight years, conservatives used their signature annual gathering to blast the Obama administration and plot a Republican takeover. “The conservative movement has elected a Republican president,” American Conservative Union Chairman Matt Schlapp said Wednesday, at the start of the annual conference, which his group sponsors. The Republican president, with his threats to void or renegotiate international trade deals and his interest in a multi-billion-dollar infrastructure package, is not exactly a prototype conservative. Bannon and Priebus are reportedly involved in a White House power struggle but say they get along. The event concludes Saturday with the annual CPAC straw poll, an early indication of which potential White House candidates have conservative support.

Source: Fox News February 22, 2017 23:05 UTC