Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) chairman Matt Schlapp runs the nation’s premier annual gather of conservatives, but the 2022 edition has a different feel after Russia invaded Ukraine on the event.
"As tragic as it is, it's kind of what we understand the political situation to be… we have an administration that's failing on all cylinders," Schlapp told Fox News Digital from his private green room backstage at The Rosen Shingle Creek in Orlando as the conference aired on screens throughout the room.
Schlapp, a hands-on leader who curates every detail of CPAC and asked producers to adjust the lighting of the event’s main stage when he noticed something on a monitor that wasn’t up to his standards from the corner of his eye when talking to Fox News Digital. He’s been running CPAC since 2014 and senses newfound distress this year as Russia and Ukraine dominate the news cycle.
Matt’s wife, former White House director of strategic communications Mercedes Schlapp, was on hand for the joint interview and elaborated on how Russia’s invasion could personally impact CPAC attendees. "I talk to so many people that are here, in hallways and everywhere else, and there is a difference of opinion. I think most people who are at CPAC are willing to listen to the case to intervene in places like what’s going on with the aggression and the takeover of Ukraine," Matt said."They’re willing to listen to the case, but the case has to be made. It hasn’t been made at all.
"He’s the one that’s going to be managing an international crisis? That’s where I think you see a growing concern," she said. The Schlapps feel Russian President Vladimir Putin would have stayed out of Ukraine if Trump was still the commander-in-chief.
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