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Donald Trump is set to give the key note speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
The four-day conference has hosted right-wing figures from across the world including the new president of Argentina, right-wing populist Javier Milei.
Former President Donald Trump is looking to win his fourth straight primary state on Saturday over Nikki Haley in South Carolina, aiming to hand a home-state embarrassment to his last remaining major rival for the Republican nomination.
Trump went into the primary with a huge polling lead and the backing of the state’s top Republicans, including Sen. Tim Scott, a former rival in the race. Haley, who served as U.N. ambassador under Trump, has spent weeks crisscrossing the state that twice elected her governor warning that the dominant front-runner, who is 77 and faces four indictments, is too old and distracted to be president again.
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Trump is set to give the key speech (Getty Images)Thousands of Trump fans flocked to the conference - with many giving stark warnings about what will happen if their guy doesn’t win in November.
“If it was like 2020 I think there'll be probably, likely, a civil war. Or some kind of revolution,” Carina Hunt, from Texas, told the Mirror. “If they try that again and are successful, with duping the results, I think people have woken up enough that they won't stand for it and there'll be a revolution. Just like we did against you all in the 1700s.”
Mr Trump enjoys a 30-point lead in the polls over Ms Haley ahead of the South Carolina primary. Ms Haley has pledged to stay in the race “until the last person votes.”
“South Carolina will vote on Saturday. But on Sunday, I’ll still be running for president. I’m not going anywhere,” she said. While most expect Mr Trump to win the nomination, some Republicans are concerned his ongoing legal battles will be a drag on his ability to beat Joe Biden in November.
Suzanne Monk, an activist campaigning on behalf of people imprisoned for involvement in the violent insurrection at the US Capitol building on January 6, 2021, said another Trump defeat would cause “chaos, chaos.”
“There is actually so much evidence, there was a lot of election fraud that went on,” she said. “I think Americans would actually perceive that we do not have the capacity to hold elections anymore, and that I don't know how America will react, but it puts us in a constitutional crisis.”
Margaret Kochman from Long Island, New York, added: ”We're headed for a revolution. That's what we are heading for. They're already taking up arms, right? People are already arming themselves."
Margaret’s husband Matthew said: “It's a very sad situation where everything is going. There is no protection from the police, right? The police have their hands tied.”
“The army is woke,” Mrs Kochman added. As well as the usual members of Congress, senators and American political talking heads, this year's conference has taken on a more British flavor.
Former Prime Minister Liz Truss - who succeeded Boris Johnson before resigning 44 days later - gave a speech to a half-empty hall on Thursday, branding Joe Biden "weak" and all but endorsing a second Trump term in office.
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