President Trump is absent from the National Rifle Association’s annual convention in Houston this weekend, the second year running he has passed on the gathering, and the no-show is drawing fresh attention to the organization’s diminished financial and political standing inside the Republican coalition.
The four-day meeting, held April 16, 19, was expected to draw roughly 70,000 attendees, NRA Director of Public Affairs Justin Davis told The Hill. But the headliner slot remains empty. Before the current streak, Trump had appeared at every NRA convention since 2015, a run that cemented his image as the most reliably pro, Second Amendment president in modern memory.
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