Defiant Trump Easily Wins CPAC ’24 Poll, Vows To ‘Deal With RINOs’

Former President Donald Trump His White House experience was praised and he vowed that he would continue to serve. “deal with the RINOs” At the Saturday marathon speech Conservative Political Action ConferenceHe won easily the 2024 Presidential straw poll.

After a difficult first term, Trump was eager to make amends with both his party members and win his 2020 re-election bid. The 2024 election “the final battle,” Trump said in his keynote address that Washington is now more clear to him.

“We’ll appropriately deal with the RINOs,” He was referring to “Republicans In Name Only.” “We will never go back to the party of Paul Ryan, Karl Rove and Jeb Bush.”

Trump was supported by 62% of those who participated in the straw poll held at Fort Washington, MD. Florida Governor Ron DeSantisPerry Johnson, a billionaire from Michigan, was third with 20%.

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Johnson’s bid for governor of Michigan, which was ended last year just before the general elections, suffered a setback to Republicans like ex-Vice President Mike Pence and Nikki Haley (ex-UN Ambassador, South Carolina Governor) and former Secretary Mike Pompeo. DeSantis did not announce his 2024 bid, although it is widely believed that he will in the future.

Kari lake, the Arizona governor who lost last year’s race, was second with 20%, and DeSantis third at 14% in a separate poll. The poll had more than 22,000 respondents, organizers said.

Trump’s performance at CPAC, which is an annual gathering conservatives that attracts many supporters from the GOP’s, was not surprising. “MAGA” wing. DeSantis was one of many potential GOP candidates who chose to attend a three-day Club for Growth event that spanned several days in Palm Beach. The event attracted significant GOP donors, even though Trump was not invited.

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Trump made a nearly two-hour long speech in which he warned that his primary opponents could back reforms of Medicare and Social Security.

“We are never going back to the people that want to destroy our great social security system … even some in our own party, I wonder who that might be,” He said.

Trump stated that the U.S. might be heading toward World War III as a result of the spread of war in Ukraine. Trump also said that he was confident in his ability to broker a peaceful solution with Russia. Trump was also critical of the endless investigations and prosecutions that have been launched against him. This includes a probe into his possible role in the January 6th riot, two separate New York cases against his in Georgia and the FBI raid in August at his Mar-a-Lago residence.

“Every time the polls get higher and higher, the prosecutors get crazier and crazier,” Trump declared. “They’re not coming after me, they’re coming after you, and that’s why I’m standing here today. I’m standing before you because we’re going to finish what we started. We’re going to complete the mission.”