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GOP stars flee CPAC
A number of big names are skipping the annual conservative gathering, whose chair faces a sexual misconduct lawsuit.
Many of the Republican Party's marquee players — including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former Vice President Mike Pence and the top GOP leaders in Congress — will skip this week's Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland, dealing a significant blow to the annual gathering's stature.
The abandonment of CPAC, which runs from Wednesday through Saturday, comes as its chairman, Matt Schlapp, defends himself against a lawsuit
alleging that he fondled a male aide to then-Senate candidate Herschel Walker in Georgia in October, without the aide's consent.
In a filing in a Virginia court this month, Schlapp's lawyers wrote that he denies having committed sexual battery.

