Vice President J.D. Vance was the clear favorite in a 2028 Republican primary straw poll conducted Saturday at the Conservative Political Action Conference, winning 61 percent of the vote. Vance, who spoke at the conference on Thursday,

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Vice President J.D. Vance, former Ohio U.S. senator, won the CPAC 2028 straw poll on Saturday with 61%. Steve Bannon, a former Trump advisor, received 12% and Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis received 7%.

According to the CPAC poll that included 1,022 attendees, 61 percent said they supported Vance as the future leader of the GOP after Trump’s term ends in four years. Meanwhile, right-wing firebrand Steve Bannon came in second with 12 percent support.

The day one speaker schedule includes Vice President JD Vance, Michael Knowles, Speaker Mike Johnson, Sen. Rick Scott, Nigel Farage, Steve Bannon, and Ben Shapiro, among many others. See the full agenda below for all of Thursday’s events.

Another presidential poll finds Florida’s Governor taking the bronze medal. Other Florida politicians also had some backing. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has 3% support, while Sen. Rick Scott is at 1%.

Vice President JD Vance was dismissing Ukraine long before he upended an Oval Office meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. When Vance was a candidate for U.S. Senate in Ohio in 2022, he said on Steve Bannon’s “War Room” podcast,

Vice President J.D. Vance was the clear favorite in a 2028 Republican primary straw poll conducted Saturday at the Conservative Political Action Conference, winning 61 percent of the vote. Vance, who spoke at the conference on Thursday, led the closest competitor by nearly 50 percent.

French far-right leader Jordan Bardella has canceled a planned speech at CPAC after former Trump aide Steve Bannon flashed a "Nazi gesture" on stage. Bannon, emulating South African billionaire Elon Musk,

Steve Bannon, the former senior adviser to President Donald Trump, denied that his straight-armed, palm-down gesture at a prominent conservative gathering was a Nazi salute. Bannon’s gesture at CPAC,

A straw poll conducted at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) this weekend found that attendees overwhelmingly favored Vice President J.D. Vance to be President Donald Trump’s successor in 2028.

JD Vance left viewers perplexed after his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference, in which he expressed sorrow that society is “suppressing” men’s masculine urges to drink beer and tell jokes.