Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis are Republican favorites for the 2024 elections, according to a poll

Former US President Donald Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis are the Republicans’ two favorite candidates for the 2024 election, according to a survey of attendees at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).

Trump is the first favorite with 59% of the voters in the opinion poll made to the 2,547 participants in the CPAC, the US network reported. CBS.

DeSantis is more than 20 points behind Trump with 28% support. “Without Trump on the ballot, DeSantis garnered the support of 61% of those in attendance, including two-thirds of Trump supporters,” the source said.

For his part, with Trump on the ticket, no one besides DeSantis got more than 2% of the vote among attendees at CPAC in Orlando, Florida.

“Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo received 2% support. Senator Rand Paul, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, former US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley, Senator Ted Cruz, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin and former Vice President Mike Pence received 1% of the vote. Maryland Governor Larry Hogan, a favorite among moderates, received no votes,” said pollster John Mclaughlin.

Without Trump on the ballot, Pompeo received 6%; Trump Jr. 6% and Cruz, Paul and Noem each got 3%. Youngkin and Haley each received 2%. Pence and Senators Josh Hawley, Rick Scott, Tim Scott, Marco Rubio and Tom Cotton received 1%, along with former Trump Housing Secretary Ben Carson, he noted. CBS.

The 2012 Republican candidate Sen. Mitt Romney received 0.3%, former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie received 0.2%, former Ohio Governor John Kasich and Hogan each received 0.1%.

the spanish agency Eph He reported that in a similar poll conducted by CPAC in July 2021, Trump achieved 71% support and DeSantis only 21%.

“A recent poll conducted by the Florida firm St. Pete Polls revealed that 54% of Florida residents support the administration of DeSantis, who will seek re-election in this year’s midterm elections, and 38% disapprove. Among Hispanics, 52% approve and 41% do not, and among African-Americans it enjoys 21% support and 61% rejection”, added the aforementioned source.

Trump criticized this Saturday the management of President Joe Biden. “(Democrats) will find out the hard way starting on November 8, and then even more so in November 2024. They’ll find out like never before. We did it twice. We’ll do it again. We’re going to do it again a third time.” “, said.

DeSantis criticized the media and Dr. Anthony Fauci, Biden’s top medical adviser, noted CBS. “They are not in the business of telling the truth, they want to weave partisan narratives. They are defending the regime in power, if you speak, they defame you. They invent a storm of lies,” she said.

CPAC attendees disapproved of Biden’s management and policies, 99% and 98% respectively. Sixty-one percent said Biden’s “incompetence” is the biggest threat to the US, followed by 35% who said China and 3% who said Russia.

As for the likely 2024 Democratic candidates, 23% of CPAC attendees said they weren’t sure; 22% believe it will be Hillary Clinton; 17%, Michelle Obama. Only 14% said it will be Biden and 11% that it will be Vice President Kamala Harris, he added. CBS.