“How many of you would like to see impeachment hearings?” conservative activist Matthew Schlapp recently asked the crowd at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) conference in Grapevine, Texas — he didn’t get the answer he wanted.

After the crowd cheered, he said, “No, that was the wrong answer. Let me try it again: How many of you would like to see impeachment hearings?” When he received a mixed reaction, he joked, “Can someone bring some coffee out for the people at CPAC?”

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One regular CPAC attendee said that attendance at this year’s conference was “sh**ty,” according to the progressive news website Mother Jones. The website noted that attendance may have been affected by rising fuel costs and the lack of presidential administration officials at the event (possibly due to the administration’s illegal war with Iran).

Carlton Huffman, a Republican strategist, sued Schlapp’s organization, the American Conservative Union, over an alleged sexual assault. Huffman accused Schlapp of “aggressively fondling” his crotch while driving him back to his hotel from a bar during an October 2022 campaign stop. Huffman later dropped his lawsuit.