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By Mario Parker and Anna Waters

February 29, 2020 at 2:41 AM UTC

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February 29, 2020 at 10:55 PM UTC

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President Donald Trump put the coronavirus scare mostly behind him for a while on Saturday with a speech to conservative activists heavy on mockery of Democrats vying to be his opponent in November.

The annual Conservative Political Action Conference is an annual gathering of some of Trump’s most fervent supporters in National Harbor, Maryland.