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<hr class="gmail-author-divider"><p>ORLANDO, FLORIDA, March 1, 2021 (<a href="http://www.lifesitenews.com/">LifeSiteNews</a>)
— Former President Donald Trump laid out his vision for the future of
the Republican Party and election integrity efforts in a powerful
closing speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on
Sunday. </p>
<p>“As we gather this week, we’re in the middle of a historic struggle
for America’s future, America’s culture, and America’s institutions,
borders, and most cherished principles,” Trump said. </p>
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<p>“For the next four years, the brave Republicans in this room will be
at the heart of the effort to oppose the radical Democrats, the fake
news media, and their toxic cancel culture,” he added, saying, “I want
you to know that I’m going to continue to fight right by your side.” </p>
<p>Trump particularly highlighted “ensuring fair, honest and secure
elections,” as “one of the most urgent issues facing the Republican
Party.” </p></div></div><p>“We must pass comprehensive election reforms and we must do it now.
The Democrats used the China virus as an excuse to change all of the
election rules without the approval of their state legislatures, making
it therefore illegal,” Trump said. “This alone would have easily changed
the outcome of the election.” </p>
<p>“They would have local courts and local politicians change the rules,
in some cases a day or two before the election,” he continued,
referring to <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/a-staggering-partial-list-of-democrats-flagrant-corruption-in-the-2020-election?utm_source=top_news&utm_campaign=standard">legally contested rule changes</a> in swing states, some of which have been <a href="http://www.pacourts.us/assets/files/setting-7739/file-10440.pdf?cb=aa5ec4">deemed illegal</a> <a href="https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/03/31/wisconsin-court-bars-clerk-telling-voters-they-dont-need-id/5098982002/">in court</a>.</p>
<p>“We can never let this or other abuses of the 2020 election be
repeated, or happen again,” Trump stressed. “Democrats used COVID as a
way of cheating. That’s what happened and everybody knows it.” </p>
<p>“They used it as a way of getting what they wanted for many years.
And the Republicans have to do something about it,” for example, by
blocking congressional Democrats’ <a href="https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/GetUrlReputation">massive, anti-voter ID “election reform” bill</a>, H.R. 1, Trump said. </p>
<p>The recent president outlined recommendations for “fair and honest”
elections, including stronger mail-in voting regulation, a shorter
voting period, universal signature matching, and citizenship
verification. </p>
<p>“We should eliminate the insanity of mass and very corrupt mail-in
voting. We must have voter ID,” Trump said. “You know, to get into the
Democrat[ic] National Convention, when they [had] the convention, you
needed voter ID, you needed an ID card,” he added. “They know that. This
is a con job.” </p>
<p>President Trump also blasted the Supreme Court for <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/supreme-court-refuses-to-hear-texas-case-other-cases-are-still-pending">repeatedly refusing</a> to rule on election lawsuits over the <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/the-supremes-take-a-knee">objections</a> of dissenting justices. </p>
<p>“This election was rigged and the Supreme Court and other courts
didn’t want to do anything about it. They should be ashamed of
themselves for what they’ve done to our country,” he said. </p>
<p>“They didn’t have the courage to act, but instead used process and
‘lack of standing.’ I was told the President of the United States has no
standing,” Trump said. “It’s my election, it’s your election, we have
no standing.” </p>
<p>Trump, who was <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/breaking-twitter-permanently-bans-president-trump-from-platform">de-platformed</a>
two months ago by top social media platforms, emphasized the need for
regulation of Big Tech companies, saying that “all of the election
integrity measures in the world will mean nothing if we don’t have free
speech.” </p>
<p>“And if the federal government refuses to act, then [in] every state
in the union where we have the votes, which is a lot of them, Big Tech
giants like Twitter, Google, and Facebook should be punished with major
sanctions whenever they silence conservative voices,” he said, noting
that such measures are moving forward in <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/%5Ch">Florida</a> and <a href="https://welovetrump.com/2021/02/08/texas-fights-back-against-big-tech-censorship/">Texas</a>. </p>
<h4>Possible third run, no new party</h4>
<p>President Trump made multiple key announcements in his
highly-anticipated speech on Sunday, including that he will not seek to
form a new political party, calling rumors that he sought to do so “fake
news.” </p>
<p>He teased a third presidential run, saying that Democrats actually
“lost the White House” in November, but that he “may even decide to beat
them for a third time.” A CPAC <a href="https://www.lifenews.com/2021/02/28/president-donald-trump-wins-cpac-2024-presidential-straw-poll/">straw poll</a> of thousands of attendees found that the 45<sup>th</sup> president was by far the most popular potential GOP candidate for 2024 and holds a 97% approval rating.</p>
<p>“Now more than ever is the time for tough, strong, and energetic
Republican leaders who have spines of steel,” Trump said. “We cannot
have leaders who show more passion for condemning their fellow Americans
than they have ever shown for standing up to Democrats, the media, and
the radicals who want to turn America into a socialist country.” </p>
<p>“And that’s why I’m announcing that I will be actively working to
elect strong, tough, and smart Republican leaders,” he revealed. “We
want Republican leaders who are loyal to the voters and who will work
proudly for the vision that I’ve laid out today.”</p>
<p>“We will be united and strong like never before,” Trump continued,
urging Republicans to define themselves against Democrats’ “radicalism”
and “socialism” that “all leads to Communism.” </p>
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<p>“The future of the Republican Party is as a party that defends the
social, economic and cultural interests and values of working American
families of every race, party and creed. That’s why the party is <a href="https://pjmedia.com/election/rick-moran/2020/11/05/trump-the-racist-won-more-minority-votes-than-any-gop-candidate-since-1960-n1126235">growing so rapidly</a>,” he said. </p>
<h4>Biden is ‘a catastrophe for American workers and American families’</h4>
<p>“We are committed to defending innocent life and to upholding the
Judeo-Christian values of our founders and of our founding,” President
Trump said, contrasting Republicans to the hard-left, “anti-family”
Biden White House. </p>
<p>“We all knew that the Biden administration was going to be bad but
none of us even imagined how bad they would be and how far left they
would go. He never talked about this,” Trump said. </p>
<p>“The Biden administration has now expedited the admission of illegal
migrants” and is “admitting them by the thousands and thousands and
thousands a day, crowded together in unsanitary conditions despite the
ongoing economic and public health crisis,” Trump said. </p>
<p>“Your family still cannot go out to eat at local restaurants but Joe
Biden is bringing in thousands upon thousands of refugees from all over
the world,” he continued. “Biden has failed in his number one duty as a
chief executive: enforcing America’s laws.”</p>
<p>Trump ripped the Biden administration for “bragging” about <a href="https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/02/boss-dr-jill-jumps-answer-question-joe-biden-speaks-warehousing-migrant-children-tents/">providing education to migrant children</a>
at the southern border, “while at the same time, millions of American
children are having their future destroyed by Joe Biden’s anti-science
school closures.” </p>
<p>“There’s no reason why the vast majority of young Americans should
not be back in school immediately,” Trump said. “The only reason why
most parents don’t have that choice is because Joe Biden has sold out
America’s children to teachers’ unions.” </p>
<p>“It’s a scandal of the highest order and one of the most craven acts
of any president in our lifetimes,” he said, pointing to the
skyrocketing rise in <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/covids-deadly-toll-on-youth-a-sharp-rise-in-suicides">suicide attempts among children and adolescents</a>
amid school closures. “So, on behalf of the moms, dads, and children of
America, I call on Joe Biden to get the schools open and get them open
now,” President Trump declared. </p>
<p>“Joe Biden and the Democrats are even pushing policies that would destroy women’s sports,” he added, referring to a Biden order <a href="https://lifepetitions.com/petition/keep-girls-sports-for-biological-girls-only-iamselina">mandating that gender-confused males</a> be allowed to play on women’s sports teams. </p>
<p>“Now young girls and women are incensed that they are now being
forced to compete against those who are biological males,” while
“records that stood for years, even decades, are being smashed with
ease,” Trump continued. “If this is not changed, women’s sports as we
know it will die.”</p>
<p>“The task for our movement and our party is to stand up to this destructive agenda with confidence and with resolve,” he said.</p>
<h4>Trump claims coronavirus vaccines ‘greatest thing to happen in hundreds of years’</h4>
<p>As has become his regular habit in recent months, Trump hailed the
work of his administration in the funding, development, and rollout of
the experimental COVID-19 vaccines. The vast majority of people who
contract the coronavirus do not die from the virus, and there are
already <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/tags/tag/hydroxychloroquine">effective</a> and <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/miraculous-ivermectin-approved-for-use-in-the-us-for-the-treatment-of-covid-19">safe</a> treatments for it. </p>
<p>“I handed the new administration what everyone is now calling a
modern day medical miracle – some say it's the greatest thing to happen
in hundreds of years, hundreds of years. Two vaccines produced in record
time with numerous others on the way including the Johnson and Johnson
vaccine that was approved just yesterday,” he said.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/adverse-events.html">More than 1,000 deaths</a>
after COVID-19 vaccination have been reported to the U.S. government in
the last three months, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
revealed on Thursday. The numbers are likely an undercount, given the <a href="https://digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r18hs017045-lazarus-final-report-2011.pdf">well-documented inefficiency</a> of the CDC’s vaccine injury tracking system.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the U.K. government has <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/pfizer-coronavirus-vaccine-not-safe-for-pregnant-or-breastfeeding-mums-potential-danger-for-fertility">cautioned</a> that pregnant and breastfeeding women should not receive the vaccine. In December 2020, it <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/pfizer-coronavirus-vaccine-not-safe-for-pregnant-or-breastfeeding-mums-potential-danger-for-fertility">published a guide</a> to
medical professionals about the Pfizer vaccine recommending that it not
be taken by pregnant women and advised women of childbearing age not to
get pregnant within two months of accepting their second dose. Women
were also warned that the vaccine should not be used during
breastfeeding, as its effect on babies was still unknown. Regarding
fertility, the <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/955899/Temporary_Authorisation_HCP_Information_BNT162_6_0_UK_editclean.pdf">10-page</a> “Reg
174 Information for UK Healthcare Professionals” said only that it was
“unknown whether COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine BNT162b2 has an impact.” </p>
<p>Nevertheless, Trump urged everyone to receive a shot.</p>
<p>“I guess on December 21st we took care of Joe Biden because he got
his shot, he got his vaccine…it shows you how unpainful that vaccine
shot is, so everybody go get your shot.”</p>
<p><em>LifeSiteNews has produced an extensive COVID-19 vaccines resources page. You can </em><a href="https://lifefacts.lifesitenews.com/covid-19/"><em>view it here.</em></a></p>
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