(NewsNation) —Vice President JD Vance on Thursday is set to kick off this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference, also known as CPAC, an event that calls itself the largest gathering of conservatives in the world.
Vance will address the event for the first time as vice president of the United States. He previously spoke at the conference about his life experience and positions on foreign aid.
Vance is scheduled to take the stage at 10 a.m. ET in National Harbor, Maryland, just outside the nation’s capital.
President Donald Trump is scheduled to speak at the conference Saturday.
Other speakers include Kari Lake, a former Arizona Senate candidate; Steve Bannon, former chief strategist for the White House; and conservative commentator Ben Shapiro.
The annual four-day conference, which traditionally has brought together different factions of the Republican Party, has become increasingly aligned with Trump’s “Make America Great Again” wing.
