Senator Ted Cruz on Friday, Prominent congressional conservatives like Senator Ted Cruz defended Trump's central place in the party, glossing over the role he played in the deadly attacks at the Capitol on January 6.

And they look at Donald J.

Trump and they look at the millions and millions of people inspired who went to battle fighting alongside President Trump and they're terrified and they want him to go away.

Let me tell you this right now, Donald J.

Trump ain't going anywhere.

In his speech Sunday, Trump is expected to dangle the possibility of running for president again in 2024.

Senator Lindsey Graham, one of Trump's closest allies in Congress, told reporters in the capital that he expected the former president to talk about his policy achievements, but added that it would be quote a big mistake if he focused on the past election.

Trump's tumultuous final weeks in office saw his supporters launched the deadly attack on the U.

S.

Capitol in an attempt to block Congress from certifying Biden's election victory, a win that Trump falsely claimed was tainted by white spread fraud.

That same false narrative continue to echo at the conference Friday.

So don't tell me that vote fraud is just some right wing hallucination.

The November 2020 election was a nightmare.

Now tension is building within the GOP on whether or not Trump should play a role in the future of the party.

On Wednesday, that clash was on full display between Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and representative Liz Cheney, the number three Republican in the House, who voted to impeach Trump last month, a reporter asked if Trump should speak at CPAC.

Yes, he should.

Congresswoman Cheney.

That's up to CPAC.