News Analysis
OXON HILL, Md.—If you wanted to take the temperature at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), you could do a lot worse than talking to Luke Twombly.
Twombly, a 31-year-old consultant who was once communications director for the Republican Party of Texas, was wearing a cowboy hat as he walked past the colorful booths at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center just outside Washington.
“I think people are tired of the Ukraine War,” he told The Epoch Times. He disagreed with the idea that Russian President Vladimir Putin sought to reestablish the Soviet Union, instead likening him to a tsar seeking “to influence, basically, Orthodox Slavic countries that were historically in the Russian zone.”…