Is Trump conservative enough, and does CPAC care?

Published February 20, 2018 5:01am ET



President Trump will soon be halfway to matching Ronald Reagan’s record four speeches as a sitting president to the Conservative Political Action Conference, a major gathering of conservative activists outside Washington, D.C., this week.

“And we’ll see you again next year and the year after that, and I’ll be doing this with CPAC whenever I can, and I’ll make sure that we’re here a lot,” Trump vowed to attendees last year. This month, the president tweeted, “the opportunity to reconnect with friends and supporters is something I look forward to every year.”

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