JD Vance was the overwhelming favorite for the 2028 Republican presidential nomination in the Conservative Political Action Conference’s annual straw poll on Saturday.
Vance won the vote with a 61 percent majority.
War Room host and former Trump advisor Steve Bannon came in second with 12 percent of the vote. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was third with seven percent.
The Hill reports:
Sixty-one percent of CPAC’s 1,022 attendees said they would support Vance as the future GOP standard bearer. Twelve percent said they would support Trump’s former adviser and right-wing media personality Steve Bannon, while seven percent said the same about Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R).
Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Trump’s UN ambassador nominee Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) each received three percent support. Donald Trump Jr., Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and Vivek Ramaswamy, who is expected to launch a gubernatorial bid in Ohio next week, all got two percent support.
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Sanders (R), Florida Sen. Rick Scott (R ), Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Trump’s former GOP presidential primary rival Nikki Haley all received one percent support. Four percent said they were undecided.
The poll was given to CPAC’s 1,022 attendees.
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