The annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) will officially get underway on Wednesday.
A number of high-profile Republican leaders and conservatives are slated to speak at the conference, which will take place through the rest of the week at the Gaylord Hotel just outside of Washington D.C.
Many of President Donald Trump's closest Capitol Hill allies, such as Rep. Jim Jordan and Sen. Ted Cruz, will be in attendance. The conference will also welcome a number of Fox News pundits, including Mark Levin, Brian Kilmeade and Pete Hegseth.
White House officials who are slated to speak include Vice President Mike Pence, National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow, Counselor Kellyanne Conway and acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney. The president's children, Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump, will also be giving remarks at the conference.
Naomi Seibt, a German teenager dubbed the "anti-Greta" Thunberg because of her views on climate change, will also be giving a talk at CPAC this year. Seibt, 19, calls climate consciousness a "despicably anti-human ideology" and has been featured in videos by the Heartland Institute, which is a conservative think tank closely allied with the White House.
Trump himself will close out the event by delivering the keynote address on Saturday, February 29. Last year, the president's CPAC speech lasted two hours and touched on everything from his MAGA rally crowd sizes to the Great Tariff Debate of 1888. Trump actually went viral when he began his remarks by bear-hugging the American flag.
This year, the focus of the event is likely to be on the 2020 election. According to a report from Fox News earlier this week, the conference will "aim to turn the tables on Democrats" after impeachment and the investigation into Russian election interference.
Here's everything you need to know about the 2020 CPAC conference.
How to Watch:
If you want to follow along with this year's event, it will be live-streamed on CPAC's website.
Schedule:
The full schedule for CPAC can be found here, but below are some highlights for the days to come. All times are listed in Eastern time.
Wednesday, February 26
4:00 p.m. - Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX)
5:05 p.m. - Kayleigh McEnany, Tim Murtagh, Mercedes Schlapp
6:40 p.m. - Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC)
Thursday, February 27
7:35 a.m. - Fox News' Brian Kilmeade and Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT)
8:10 a.m. - Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC)
9:35 a.m. - Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA)
9:55 a.m. - Charlie Kirk, Turning Point USA
11:50 a.m. - Vice President Mike Pence
1:50 p.m. - Kellyanne Conway and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos
Friday, February 28
8:25 a.m. - Brad Parscale (Trump campaign manager) and Lara Trump
10:00 a.m. - Kimberly Guilfoyle
11:35 a.m. - Candace Owens, BLEXIT Foundation
12:30 p.m. - Naomi Seibt
2:30 p.m. - Larry Kudlow and Ivanka Trump
3:00 p.m. - Nigel Farage, leader of the Brexit Party
Saturday, February 29
7:50 a.m. - Sebastian Gorka
11:35 a.m. - Mark Levin, Fox News
2:00 p.m. - VA Sec. Robert Wilkie and HHS Sec. Alex Azar
3:00 p.m. - President Donald Trump
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