Speeches at CPAC (2020s): on Civil Rights
Donald Trump:
Transgender protections destroying women's sports
Joe Biden and the Democrats are even pushing policies that would destroy women's sports. Now young girls and women are in sets that they are now being forced to compete against those who are biological males. It's not good for women.
The records that stood for years, even decades are now being smashed. If this is not changed women's sports as we know it will die.
Source: Remarks by Pres. Trump at the 2021 CPAC Conference
Feb 28, 2021
James Lankford:
COVID: Treat churches the same as beauty shops & bars
I proposed a very simple amendment on the Senate floor. It stated no federal dollars for city and state that treat churches, synagogues, and mosques differently than they treat restaurants, stores, and offices during the COVID pandemic.
If you allow bars and beauty shops to be open you should allow churches to be open. You would think that would be a no-brainer. In a squeaker vote the First Amendment won 51-49 in the United States Senate.
Source: Remarks by Senator Lankford at the 2021 CPAC Conference
Feb 26, 2021
Josh Hawley:
Government is shoving critical race theory down our throats
He's trying to shove critical race theory down our throats and in every aspect of the government. It's in the military. It is in government training. All backed by the power of the Biden administration. I have asked nominee after nominee, will you
pledge to oppose critical race theory? Will you pledge to stop it from being taught, from being promulgated in the United States government. The answer is no. They are radical on this issue. They believe that America is systemically racist.
Source: Speech at the 2022 CPAC Conference in Orlando FL
Feb 24, 2022
Ted Cruz:
Worship however you like; that's the beauty of freedom
The message of liberty is profoundly subversive. The left believes in rigid conformity. We believe in diversity, free speech. You can say whatever you want no matter how dumb it is. And by the way, in Washington DC, we test that proposition.
Religious liberty, you can worship however you like on your knees before Almighty God or you could worship the almighty dollar or you can worship, I don't know, pink martians. That's the beauty of freedom.
Source: Remarks by Senator Cruz at 2021 CPAC Conference
Feb 26, 2021
Donald Trump:
I'll revoke executive order for Marxist equity and inclusion
On Day One I will revoke Biden's executive order restoring Marxist equity and inclusion. I will work tirelessly to keep them from implementing this agenda. I will urge Congress to create a restitution fund for
Americans who have been unjustly discriminated against by the Biden policies, they are so unfair and so un-American. And we will ban all racial discrimination by the government.
Source: Speech at the 2023 CPAC Conference in Maryland
Mar 4, 2023
Nikki Haley:
Our troops already know the difference between men and women
We need our military to be stronger than ever. But what does Joe Biden have our troops doing? Taking gender pronoun classes.
I am the wife of a combat veteran and that disgusts me. Our troops already know the difference between men and women. They also know that we need a different commander-in-chief.
Source: Speech at the 2023 CPAC Conference in Maryland
Mar 2, 2023
Vivek Ramaswamy:
Get rid of affirmative action; it is a national cancer
In his 18-minute speech, Mr. Ramaswamy said "three secular religions have America in a chokehold today." The first of them is this "woke racial religion" that says someone's identity is based on his skin colour. "That if you are black, you are
inherently disadvantaged. That if you are white, you are inherently privileged no matter your economic background or your upbringing. That your race determines who you are and what you can achieve in life," Mr. Ramaswamy said.
"This means that you believe in merit, that you get ahead in this country, not on the colour of your skin, but on the content of your character and your contributions. And that is why as the US president,
I have pledged to get rid of affirmative action in this country once and for all. It is national cancer on our soul," Mr. Ramaswamy said.
Source: Speech at the 2023 CPAC Conference in Maryland
Mar 5, 2023
Vivek Ramaswamy:
Makes no sense that biological sex is completely fluid
The "second secular religion" says the "sex of the person you are attracted to has to be hardwired on the day you were born" but your "own biological sex is
completely fluid over the course of your lifetime." "It makes no sense unless it is a religion. It does not match up to reason, it matches up to religion," Mr. Ramaswamy said.
Source: Speech at the 2023 CPAC Conference in Maryland
Mar 5, 2023
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