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CPAC is missing students and its legendary party scene. Republicans are concerned the low-energy event reflects the GOP's standing with young voters in a post-Trump world.
ORLANDO, Florida — There's a common refrain among Republicans and conservatives roaming the halls of this year's Conservative Political Action Conference: "Where are all the students?"
The lack of eager right-leaning teenagers and 20-somethings collecting free schwag and chugging beers is one of the most glaring and obvious contrasts from the annual conservative conferences held during the before times in and around Washington, DC.
But in this pandemic wasteland of 2021, where even CPAC has decamped to a popular family hotel a short 20-minute drive from Disney World, it's the lack of young people that is getting noticed.
"That's the thing I miss the most, without any question," Roger Stone, the infamous Donald Trump consigliere, told Insider on Saturday.
"You can't be a party that looks backward, it has to look forward," said one longtime CPAC attendee who noted the absence of college students this year. "Trump is still looking backward and it is hurting the party."
ORLANDO, Florida — There's a common refrain among Republicans and conservatives roaming the halls of this year's Conservative Political Action Conference: "Where are all the students?"
The lack of eager right-leaning teenagers and 20-somethings collecting free schwag and chugging beers is one of the most glaring and obvious contrasts from the annual conservative conferences held during the before times in and around Washington, DC.
But in this pandemic wasteland of 2021, where even CPAC has decamped to a popular family hotel a short 20-minute drive from Disney World, it's the lack of young people that is getting noticed.
"That's the thing I miss the most, without any question," Roger Stone, the infamous Donald Trump consigliere, told Insider on Saturday.
"You can't be a party that looks backward, it has to look forward," said one longtime CPAC attendee who noted the absence of college students this year. "Trump is still looking backward and it is hurting the party."
CPAC is missing students and its legendary party scene. Republicans are concerned the low-energy event reflects the GOP's standing with young voters in a post-Trump world.
CPAC has long been famous for its college party scene, from hot-tub parties with congressmen to ice-luge shots. Not so much in pandemic-plagued 2021.
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