CPAC goes all in on Trump's false election fraud claims - NBC News

“Just because you fail in court doesn’t mean you don’t have a good case.”The conference includes a look at “failed” states — "PA, GA, NV, oh my!" per the event description — and "successful" states, likely drawing attention to the spate of restrictive voting laws state Republicans are advancing in dozens of states.President Joe Biden won the states listed as "failed": Pennsylvania, Georgia and Nevada."Trump did such a good job convincing the Republican base of this stolen election myth that it presents an opportunity for other Republicans to piggy back on those fears, even if they don’t embrace the specifics of Trump’s claims, and use it as an opportunity to either pass new restrictive laws or at least make noises about them as a way of pleasing that base," Rick Hasen, a professor and an election law expert at the University of California, Irvine, said.The panels will bring together a slew of conservative leaders, including early champions of fraud-related laws like the Heritage Foundation’s Hans von Spakovsky and Trump allies like Rep. Mike Kelly, a Pennsylvania Republican whose appeal to get mail voting in the state declared unconstitutional was recently shot down by the Supreme Court.The lineup of major speakers suggests that voter fraud will also come up outside of the focused sessions.Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, announced his support for new restrictive voting laws last week and is scheduled to be the first major speaker on Friday.