Presidential Prospects Address Faith & Freedom Coalition's Road to Majority Conference
June 19-21, 2014 - With less than five months to go until the the November 2014 mid-term elections, seven leading potential 2016 Republican presidential candidates addressed the Faith & Freedom Coalition's Road to Majority Conference: Sen. Marco Rubio, Sen. Ted Cruz, former Sen. Rick Santorum, Sen. Rand Paul, Gov. Chris Christie, former Gov. Mike Huckabee and Gov. Bobby Jindal.  (Rep. Paul Ryan had also been scheduled to appear, but was caught up  House Ways and Means Committee hearing on the IRS and Lois Lerner's missing emails; former Ambassador John Bolton and Herman Cain have also been mentioned as possible candidates).

In his speech to the conference, FFC founder and chairman Ralph Reed devoted considerable attention to the IRS scandal, describing it as "a systematic and deliberate campaign, I believe coordinated with the White House and the Justice Department, to try to harrass, intimidate and silence opponents of this administration."  Reed described "the fiscal, the cultural, and the foreign policy chaos that is America" today, and concluded that "we need an awakening, a moral and spiritual awakening that will call our nation back to brokenness, humility, reliance and dependence upon almighty God."

FFC declared the conferece a success, noting on its website:

"Over 1,000 activists descended on Washington for Road to Majority and Lobby Day, and your activities were covered by 300 credentialed media. Our attendees trekked to Capitol Hill to meet with Senators, Members and their staff to discuss marriage, immigration, reigning in the IRS, and Common Core.

"The impact of the conference has already been felt far and wide. We received coverage in theWashington Post, Time, the Wall Street Journal, Fox News, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, and Newsmax, as well as wall-to-wall live coverage on C-SPAN. An estimated audience of 16 million viewers, listeners and readers were exposed to our faith-based message on these and other media outlets." 

Meanwhile, a different view came from the Democratic National Committee, which described the event as a "circus" and, in a memo, said of Republicans, "Their entire legislative and electoral strategy is to throw red meat to their far right base and hope their extreme agenda based on obstructionism and divisiveness will take them across the finish line."

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