Ben Shapiro on Trump's CPAC speech: “This is not the Trump that's going to win him any primaries or the presidency”
Shapiro says the conference, which his employee spoke at, was “more fringy this year”
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Citation From the March 6, 2023, edition of The Daily Wire's The Ben Shapiro Show
BEN SHAPIRO (HOST): OK, so, unfortunately today we got some bad Trump. So, Trump spoke at CPAC and it was not the best version of Trump. So, I don't have a problem with Donald Trump doing the revenge tour on the Democratic Party, on the media, that's fine. I mean, that's all fair game in terms of presidential politics. This, however, is not going to be the thing that makes him president. The best version of Trump was Trump in East Palestine in Ohio. Right? That was the best version of Trump. The I'm standing up for you Trump. This is the you have to stand up for me and we have to take revenge together Trump. And this is not the Trump that's going to win him any primaries or the presidency. The Trump who is on the revenge trail for his 2020 loss is not the guy that people actually love. It doesn't make people love him to see this sort of stuff. Again, if you're a Trump fan, you should be encouraging him to do more of the East Palestine stuff and less of this.
Here he was at CPAC -- CPAC, by the way, was really, really under-attended this year. It did not have a lot of big names, did not have a lot of big stars. It was, kind of, more fringy this year which is why in the CPAC straw poll, the guy who came in third is some random 75 year old businessperson who, sort of, declared the day of.