Vice President JD Vance handily won the 2028 Republican presidential nominee straw poll at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) this week, receiving an overwhelming majority of votes over former Trump adviser Steve Bannon and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
The poll, asking CPAC attendees who they would vote for in the next GOP presidential primary election, was shared by former White House press secretary Sean Spicer on X:
Vance, a former U.S. senator from Ohio and author of New York Times bestselling memoir Hillbilly Elegy, came out on top with 61 percent of the vote.
The runner-up was Bannon, host of the War Room show, with 12 percent of the vote.
DeSantis, a former Trump foe on the 2024 election trail, received just
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