Donald Trump didn’t formally announce his candidacy for president at the year’s marquee conservative gathering, but inched close enough to effectively freeze the 2024 Republican field and put would-be rivals on notice that he remains both king and kingmaker. The former president’s central argument at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Florida, on Sunday was that he’s the best candidate to win in 2024 because, he claims, he never lost in 2020. In his first public appearance since leaving office Jan. 20, Trump spent about half his 90-minute speech on false claims of widespread election fraud in November, and hinted that the 2020 contest may not have been his last. “Who knows? I may even decide to beat them a third time.” But after nearly six weeks without access to social media or campaign rallies, Democrats weren’t the only targets of Trump’s pent-up scorn. He solicited boos from the audience toward a list of 17 “grandstanding” Republican lawmakers who had voted to impeach or convict him for inciting an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, giving some of them them derisive nicknames and ending with “warmonger” Wyoming Representative Liz Cheney. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/2TwO8Gm Bloomberg Quicktake brings you live global news and original shows spanning business, technology, politics and culture. Make sense of the stories changing your business and your world. To watch complete coverage on Bloomberg Quicktake 24/7, visit http://www.bloomberg.com/qt/live, or watch on Apple TV, Roku, Samsung Smart TV, Fire TV and Android TV on the Bloomberg app. Have a story to tell? Fill out this survey for a chance to have it featured on Bloomberg Quicktake: https://cor.us/surveys/27AF30 Connect with us on… YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/Bloomberg Breaking News on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/BloombergQuickTakeNews Twitter: https://twitter.com/quicktake Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/quicktake Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/quicktake