DALLAS — There’s a power struggle underway to be the face of the Republican Party in 2024 — but you wouldn’t know it from attending CPAC Texas.

There was no Ron DeSantis. Mike Pence was nowhere to be found. Nikki Haley? Negative. Mike Pompeo? Nope.

It was all about Donald J. Trump, who didn’t have to share the spotlight with a cast of potential presidential primary rivals, as he has at some other top conservative gatherings this year.

Unlike CPAC’s Orlando event in February — and the Faith & Freedom Coalition’s Nashville conference in June — the weekend gathering was missing most of the non-Trump names floated as potential 2024 contenders, though Sens. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas) were among the elected officials who spoke.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Dallas, Aug. 5, 2022.