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Attendees at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) anointed Vice President JD Vance as President Donald Trump’s likely 2028 successor on Saturday.
According to the CPAC poll that included 1,022 attendees, 61 percent said they supported Vance as the future leader of the GOP after Trump’s term ends in four years. Meanwhile, right-wing firebrand Steve Bannon came in second with 12 percent support. Bannon was fibe points ahead of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who only pulled in the support of seven percent of CPAC attendees.
“You guys are the conservative movement, you guys are the thought leaders, the opinion leaders. We asked folks who they thought would be the Republican nominee, who they preferred for the Republican for president in 2028. And who is it?” Jim McLaughlin, president of McLaughlin & Associates Polls, said at the conference on Saturday, Fox News reported.
“JD Vance. And why? Because he’s viewed as the closest thing to Donald Trump,” McLaughlin added.
McLaughlin also highlighted that the CPAC straw poll had accurately
The pollster said Saturday:
You know how I knew Donald Trump was going to win the people in this room? Because when we did the CPAC polls over the years, and you had the mainstream media saying, you know, ‘Donald Trump couldn’t win again.’ Donald Trump was winning overwhelmingly, not by a little bit, overwhelmingly in every single CPAC poll. You guys knew he was going to win the primary. You all knew that he was going to win the general election, no matter what the Democrats threw at us.