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David Sherfinski

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David Sherfinski covered politics for The Washington Times.

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President Trump is the overwhelming choice for the 2020 Republican nomination, according to a Washington Times/CPAC straw poll, which found more than 80 percent support. Mitt Romney, the party's 2012 nominee, was far behind at 6 percent support. (Associated Press)

Donald Trump steers CPAC message in new direction

Two years into the Trump presidential experiment, there's no longer any doubt that the conservative movement has been redefined by President Trump, leaving him with a fiercely loyal base of support as he prepares for a 2020 re-election campaign in perhaps the most hostile environment in modern political history.

March 3, 2019
The official 2019 CPAC Straw Poll shows the vast majority of attendees at the conservative conference back the president's emergency declaration authorizing spending on the border wall. (American Conservative Union)

CPAC straw poll: Biden biggest threat to Trump

Conservatives view former Vice President Joseph R. Biden as the "biggest threat" to President Trump in the 2020 election, according to Saturday's Washington Times/CPAC straw poll. Sens. Bernard Sanders and Kamala Harris were a distant second and third.

March 2, 2019
President Donald Trump hugs the American flag as he arrives to speak at Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2019, in Oxon Hill, Md., Saturday, March 2, 2019. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Donald Trump takes victory lap, urges CPAC activists to stay vigilant

President Trump on Saturday took a victory lap for what he described as a booming economy, U.S. victories abroad, and his success on conservative priorities like appointing new judges to the federal courts as he urged grassroots conservative activists to continue fighting.

March 2, 2019
President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un take a walk after their first meeting at the Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi hotel, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019, in Hanoi. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Activists at CPAC pleased with Trump’s ‘America First’ axiom

Academics may debate whether President Trump has a foreign policy doctrine, but conservative activists gathered in suburban Maryland this week say there's no question he has a guiding axiom, summed up in two of his favorite words: America First.

February 28, 2019
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., tells reporters at her weekly news conference she's glad Trump didn't go along with North Korea's nuclear demands, but she feels Kim Jong-Un was the "big winner" on the world stage for having another summit with the U.S. president, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019. Pelosi said (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House Dems ponder rules change as party unity crumbles

Stung by ongoing defections on some key votes, House Democrats are pondering a quick rules change that would limit the GOP's chances to offer its own amendments to bills -- a move the top Republican said would amount to "a nuclear option."

February 28, 2019
President Donald Trump arrives to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Friday, Feb. 24, 2017, in Oxon Hill, Md. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

CPAC learns to love Donald Trump

President Trump, who made some less-than-memorable CPAC appearances earlier this decade and earned a measly 3.5 percent support in the 2015 CPAC presidential straw poll, was by 2016 the mother of all lightning rods, with the conservative activists gathered in suburban Maryland desperately searching for an alternative presidential candidate. Three years later, all is forgiven.

February 27, 2019
Rep. Andy Biggs, Arizona Republican, is rolling out the resolution that calls on Congress to commit to addressing a growing "fiscal crisis" in the United States. (Associated Press photograph)

Andy Biggs resolution makes national debt a security threat

While many on Capitol Hill are shrugging off the federal government's escalating red ink, House conservatives on Tuesday are set to introduce a resolution calling on Congress to recognize the national debt as a national security threat.

February 26, 2019