Live from BLIS!
Tuesday, Daily Caller editor and TV analyst Tucker Carlson kicked off our national hotel investment conference ("BLIS") in DC, saying swift changes in demographics, free markets, religion, and ideology are having a profound effect on politics—citing Mitt Romney's recent support of a minimum wage hike as a prime example of a shift. As for 2016, Tucker says that while Hillary Clinton is the presumed Democratic frontrunner, Sen. Elizabeth Warren is actually his pick to take the nomination, since her politics are more with the party than Hillary's.
450 hospitality pros have descended on the brand-new Marriott Marquis hotel in Washington, which is—at 1,175 room—the largest hotel in the city. We also heard from Trump Hotels COO Jim Petrus, Thayer Lodging chairman Fred Malek, and 40 other hotel experts.
