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S.E. Cupp withdraws from CPAC due to exclusion of conservative gay-rights group

S.E. Cupp, the conservative columnist and MSNBC co-host, announced today that she will not accept an invitation to speak at next month's Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) due to the exclusion of GOProud, a pro-gay rights conservative group.

"I've been thinking about this a lot, and I know a lot of people on my side of the aisle have been struggling with this for some time now, too: I've been scheduled to speak at CPAC this year, and I just don't think I can until this issue is reconciled and figured out," she said on today's edition of MSNBC's The Cycle.

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This is the second year in a row that GOProud has not been invited to the conference. Progressive MSNBC host Chris Hayes said earlier this week that he would not accept an invitation to appear on a CPAC panel unless the group was allowed to attend.