The former president is not only still the most popular figure in the GOP but got a hero’s welcome before a friendly audience in his first return to the nation’s capital
Former President Donald Trump speaks at an America First Policy Institute agenda summit at the Marriott Marquis in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. | Andrew Harnik/AP PhotoWhen Donald Trump boarded Air Force One and said goodbye to Washington on Jan. 20, 2021, he was considered a political pariah. The Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol cast doubt that he could ever show his face in D.C. again, let alone entertain running for president.
But Trump became most animated when talking about the thing even some allies wish he would drop — his false claims of a “stolen” election, which incited the events of Jan. 6. He promised that the House committee investigating his actions that day would not put a damper on him or the political movement represented by many in the room.
In his own Washington speech on Tuesday, former Vice President Mike Pence maintained, as he has before, that he “couldn’t be more proud of the record of the Trump-Pence administration.” | Patrick Semansky/AP Photo “We need an all out effort to defeat crime in America and strongly defeat it and be tough and be nasty and be mean if we have to,” said Trump.
It’s on this ground that Pence has cautiously been drawing a contrast with Trump. On Tuesday, he cast the midterm elections as a historic clash between “unified conservative action” and the “aggressive liberalism” of the left.
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