NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland —
Senate Judiciary Committee subcommittee on Immigration and the National
Interest chairman Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) will address Conservative Political
Action Committee (CPAC) attendees on Friday afternoon at a Breitbart News-hosted
event.
The event, at
which Sessions will speak and also meet with CPAC attendees, is sponsored by
Breitbart News and several grassroots organizations. Co-sponsors include Tea
Party Patriots, American Family Association, Numbers USA, and Phyllis Schlafly’s
Eagle Forum.
The event will
take place in the Chesapeake F room of the Gaylord National Harbor Hotel and
Conference Center at 2:30 p.m. ET, almost immediately after former Florida Gov.
Jeb Bush speaks via an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity on the main stage
at CPAC.
“Mitt Romney
lost the election because he trailed voters earning between $30,000 and $50,000
by 15 points and voters earning under $30,000 by 28 points,” Sessions said in a
statement.
No party can
win without working and middle class voters. The path forward for the GOP
is to become the party of the American worker. The party of higher
wages. The party of full employment.
The Democratic
Party has already cast its lot: its members have endlessly enabled the
President’s anti-worker policies, including his wage-cutting agenda of
uncontrolled immigration and the bleeding of American manufacturing wealth
overseas.
The American
people are crying out for an alternative. They are ready and waiting for
leadership that will dutifully serve their interests, and be willing to say
‘NO’ to the big donors and the special interests when they work to undermine
the people’s will.
It’s time for a
humble and honest populism that puts the national interest – the people’s
interest – first.
“Sen. Sessions
is the leading warrior for the grassroots in the fight for American
sovereignty,” Stephen K. Bannon, Breitbart News’ Executive Chairman, said.
“Breitbart News is proud to host the Senator to allow everyone at CPAC to meet
him.”
Bush, who will
speak right before Sessions, is likely to be asked about his positions on
immigration and Common Core—both of which are out of step with the GOP
electorate nationwide. Sessions’ remarks to CPAC can be viewed as a rebuttal to
the potential 2016 candidate who’s been soaking up Wall Street donor money
early on.
Bush has had
several missteps with staffing as of late, and he is having serious issues with
Republican base voters due to his outside-the-mainstream positions on issues
like immigration. CPAC has largely been viewed as an opportunity for Bush to
attempt to win over conservatives who he has been unsuccessful in wooing to his
team, but Bush thus far—before his speech—has seen animosity from almost
everyone in the GOP arena.
On Thursday at
CPAC, while being interviewed by radio’s Laura Ingraham, even New Jersey Gov.
Chris Christie—who supports amnesty for illegal aliens—slammed Bush’s
immigration stance.
Here’s a
partial transcript of the exchange between Ingraham and Christie over Bush’s
immigration position, as provided by Ingraham’s executive producer:
Ingraham:
“According to the last Gallup poll, only 7% of Americans think that we should
have increased levels of immigration– 7%– and following on that, Jeb Bush has
recently said that immigrants are more entrepreneurial, harder working and
more fertile than [Americans].
He even
suggested that Detroit should be repopulated with foreign workers, immigrant
workers, to spur the economy in Detroit. At a time when we have so many
Americans unemployed, tens of millions of Americans out of the workforce, what
is Governor Christie, in a national setting– let’s say you decide to run for
President– going to do on these issues. there seems to be a disconnect between
the people and the pols on immigration– a big one.”
Christie:
“First off, I think that statement is misdirecting the priorities because what
I would be concerned about would be the people that are in Detroit right now.
The hardworking people who stuck with Detroit and who have stayed there.
We want to
create economic opportunities for them, we want to create a better educational
system for them so that they can have a better future, so that’s misdirecting
the goal here first of all.”
Ingraham: “But
Jeb Bush says they’re more entrepreneurial, harder working, and more fertile
than Americans”
Christie:
“Well, first of all, I’m not mentioning the fertility thing. The fertility
thing is not where we should be headed with this.
But the fact of
the matter is that the the most entrepreneurial people in the world are the
people of the United States and that’s why folks want to come here because
that’s the system we’ve set up and what we’ve created.
And, Laura,
what we need to get back to in this country is creating a economic atmosphere
where people want to come here legally and create a great life, because the
people who are already here are doing that for themselves and their families,
and so my focus on Detroit would be to say how do we make that city, for the
people who are there, how do we make it better for them from economic
perspective, from an educational perspective so that people will want to come
to Detroit because there’s great opportunity and not for other reasons.”
Ingraham:
“Well, what’s happened now is you have 58 million [native born] Americans of
working age who are operating outside of the workforce. It’s a stunning number
of people. 62 percent labor force participation rate. Abysmal. It’s
embarrassing for our country.
And yet there
is an unending hunger for foreign workers coming into this table mostly pushed
by big business. And again, the disconnect between what American people need
and what politicians (in both parties, this is a bipartisan deal here) want.
And how do you get the middle class hard working American in– I don’t know–
Columbus to look at Democrats and Republicans and say, ‘They represent me.'”
Christie:
“Well, what they need to look at– more than Democrat or Republican– is look at
what the person is saying and what they’ve done in their career. And in my
career I have always tried to put the hardworking people of my state first… The
focus unfortunately with a lot of people in politics right now is what they say
in the editorial page of the New York Times or the Washington Post, when what
we should be concerned about is– what I heard when I went to 37 states last
year– they want opportunities for great careers for themselves and for their
children and we’re not talking about that and we better start talking about
that because these folks– the hardworking middle class in this country– are the
backbone of our society and that’s what we have to be focused on.”
The Drudge
Report on Thursday piled on Bush, highlighting a piece from the Washington
Post’s Bob Costa about how Bush once called the Republican Party
“anti-woman,” “anti-science,” and “anti-gay.” The paper wasn’t alone, as many
political figures at CPAC tore into the idea of having another Bush as the
public face of the GOP, even if they didn’t directly name him.
“As we look to
recent elections, and we compare 2004—the last race Republicans won—to 2008 and
2012, by far the biggest difference is the millions of conservatives who showed
in ’04 who stayed home in ‘08 and ’12,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said in an
exclusive interview with Breitbart News, hinting at why another Bush wouldn’t
succeed in beating the Democrats.
They fall
primarily into two groups. Number one, evangelical Christians showed up in
massive numbers in ’04 but stayed home in ’08 and even more stayed home in ’12.
And number two, Reagan Democrats—largely ethnic Catholics up and down the rust
belt, they tend to be blue collar union members, gun owners, pro-life, strong
national defense. Ohio steel workers.
The central
question, if we’re going to win in 2016, is how do you bring back the millions
of conservatives who have stayed home the last two elections and that’s one of
the reasons I’m looking so seriously at this race is because if you look at all
the candidates—we have to nominate a candidate who can energize and mobilize
those conservatives and bring them back to the polls.
“If we are to
rejuvenate the economy and get the government out of the way, I think we could
have growth like we had during the Reagan years but we can’t have milquetoast
middle-of-the-road Republicans because they end up not being much different
than the Democrats,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said in his own exclusive interview
with Breitbart News. “What we really need are Republicans who will boldly be
what they’re for and that is limited government and lower taxes, not
revenue-neutral tax reform whatever that is. We ought to be for lowering taxes
and with that, millions of jobs will be created.”
Even Nigel
Farage of the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) seemed to recognize the
need for Republicans in the U.S. to avoid nominating another establishment
Republican such as Bush.
“I’m often
asked what are the comparisons and what are the differences between U.S.
politics and British politics—well there are a lot of differences but there are
I think a lot that draws us together,” Farage said in remarks at his own Breitbart
News-hosted meet-and-greet at CPAC on Thursday. “The English-speaking world,
common law and the shared history and things that we’ve stood together and
fought for over the centuries that have really mattered. I’m a big fan of
America: I spent 12 years working for American companies. Did you hear that? I
said working. I’m a politician who had a job before I did this. How about that?
How unusual?”
What’s
happening in the U.K. with UKIP rising to fight the Conservative Party
establishment could very well happen in the U.S. if the GOP establishment
continues to control the party infrastructure.
“In my country,
we have a two-party system—the first part’s a post-electoral system, but
despite all of that a third party, an insurgent party, has come through and is
poised perhaps in 69 days to do very well and possibly even hold the balance of
power,” Farage said.
We’ve done it
by getting votes from across the spectrum but we’ve done it in particular by
winning votes from people who run their own businesses, who get up every day in
the morning and who work hard—and find themselves in our modern corporatist
economy and I say that as opposed to capitalist economy.
They find
themselves struggling, and they are looking for some champions to stand up for
them and to help them. I have a feeling that the Republican Party—and I know
you guys want to do well, and it may come around—but if the Republican Party is
going to win now it has got to get those kinds of men and women back voting
Republican. To do that, you’ve got to find the right candidate to run for you
as president.
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