Former President Donald Trump hasn’t committed to running for the GOP presidential nomination in 2024, but he does seem to tease his supporters with the idea. However, we have some bad news for the twice-impeached one-term president and his former vice president Mike Pence.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) edged Trump in a straw poll taken at the Western Conservative Summit in Denver, and Mike Pence came in 10th out of a 31-person field. DeSantis polled at three percent over the former president.
Top Five:
Ron DeSantis (74%),
Donald Trump (71%)
Sen. Ted Cruz (43%)
Mike Pompeo (39%)
Sen. Tim Scott (36%).— Philip Melanchthon Wegmann (@PhilipWegmann) June 20, 2021
Josh Hawley and Dan Crenshaw did poorly, too.
Interestingly, Josh Hawley and Dan Crenshaw are tied at 11th with 20.2%.
— Philip Melanchthon Wegmann (@PhilipWegmann) June 20, 2021
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The 2024 straw poll results were conducted at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) poll taken in February, showed DeSantis with strong support.
#CPAC2021 poll w/o Trump
Ron DeSantis: 43%
Kristi Noem: 11%
Don Jr: 8%
Mike Pompeo: 7%
Ted Cruz: 7%
Tucker Carlson: 3%
Josh Hawley: 3%
Nikki Haley: 3%
Ivanka: 3%
Rand Paul: 2%
… and Mike Pence: 1%— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) February 28, 2021
As the New York Times reported at the time, “But in a surprise bit of downbeat news for Mr. Trump, only 68 percent of those at the conference said they wanted the former president to run again in 2024. Far more attendees, 95 percent, said they wanted the Republican Party to advance Mr. Trump’s policies and agenda than endorsed him running again, even as the mere mention of Mr. Trump’s name earned loud applause throughout the three-day gathering of activists.”
Trump was the least popular president in this history of polling, and his most recent impeachment was for inciting the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection. At any rate, I wouldn’t mind him running again just to see him lose again. We’re not sure why the former president has any support at all from conservatives considering that his party lost the House, the Senate, and the White House because of him. And all of this for a mentally ill girdled septuagenarian that wears lifts to appear taller. And the former president might potentially be indicted at some point. That’s not a very good track record in politics.
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