Former President Donald Trump overwhelmingly won a straw poll at the country’s top conservative conference Sunday, another sign of his continued dominance of the GOP.
Trump got 59 percent of the vote in a nonscientific straw poll at the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, long considered an early measure of popularity of Republican presidential hopefuls. It’s a modest improvement of about 4 percentage points since last year’s CPAC Florida straw poll.
Trump, who has stoked speculation that he will run for the White House again after his 2020 defeat bounced him from the Oval Office, consistently dominates in hypothetical Republican polls. On Sunday, a Washington Post/ABC News poll showed President Joe Biden’s national approval rating slipping to 37 percent — his lowest mark ever in the survey.
“The more Biden collapses, the more voters have buyer’s remorse,” Trump pollster John McLaughlin said.
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