ORLANDO, Fla.—The 500-acre Ritz Carlton Grande Lakes, with its 580-plus luxury rooms, Greg Norman-designed golf course, and waterpark, is figuratively if not geographically a million miles away from Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach or New York County District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s Manhattan office.
With events in both locations dominating the news, more than 150 House Republicans planning legislative strategies—and getting a leadership pep talk from NFL Hall of Famer Drew Brees—are trying to ignore the noise and deal primarily with three policy areas, said House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.).
GOP lawmakers have diligently focused on China, parents’ rights in education, and energy policy, during the retreat’s “issues conference,” he told reporters on March 21, with little attention being paid in strategy sessions to the pending potential indictment and arraignment in New York of former President Donald Trump….