The event will take place Friday and Saturday about 10 miles from the jail where Trump has to surrender before next Friday.
Several Republican White House hopefuls are set to greet a conservative conference with hopes of making up ground against Donald Trump. But the former president's shadow may be especially difficult to escape in the city where he was most recently indicted.
"It's hard for anybody to get any oxygen in the room with President Trump," said Terry Lathan, a former Alabama Republican Party chairwoman who has previously backed Trump but now supports Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for the 2024 nomination. DeSantis, former Vice President Mike Pence, South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley are set Friday to appear in the Atlanta neighborhood of Buckhead, a Republican-leaning enclave in an otherwise Democratic-dominated city. Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and businessman Vivek Ramaswamy will speak Saturday.
Of the candidates appearing with Erickson, only Christie has consistently criticized Trump for alleged acts contained in the indictments. The rest typically echo in some fashion Trump's claims of a"witch hunt," while avoiding details of the cases. He offered no supporting evidence for that deflection, which was reminiscent of Trump lashing out at civil rights icon John Lewis in 2017. The late Atlanta congressman had declared Trump was"not a legitimate president" and refused to attend his inauguration. Trump answered that Lewis' district, which still includes downtown Atlanta and Buckhead, was"falling apart crime infested.
As a Republican,"you can't call him unfit for office," Ayres said."That's basically requiring half the party to admit they screwed up and put someone unfit for office into the Oval Office. That's just a psychological step too far for most people."
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