A former Trump 2020 campaign official is working with Justice Department prosecutors as part of their investigation into the former president’s efforts to overturn the result of the last presidential election.
Michael Roman, the Trump re-election campaign’s director of Election Day operations, has entered into a proffer agreement with prosecutors in special counsel Jack Smith’s office, CNN reported, meaning he may provide testimony in exchange for immunity.
Though Roman was subpoenaed months ago and had his phone seized, he is expected to now avoid testifying before a federak grand jury as part of the agreement.
In the wake of Trump’s 2020 loss, Roman joined an effort to put forward slates of pro-Trump “fake electors” to reject President Biden’s victories in key swing states such as Georgia, Arizona, Michigan and Nevada.
Gary Michael Brown, Roman’s deputy who was also involved in the effort, appeared before the grand jury last week.
Former Trump campaign official Michael Roman is reportedly working with DOJ prosecutors as part of an investigation into the former president’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election.Mike Roman/Twitter Roman served on Donald Trump’s re-election campaign team and has reportedly entered into a proffer agreement with prosecutors in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s office.REUTERS Smith’s office has apparently agreed to let Roman testify in exchange for immunity.JIM LO SCALZO/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
The House Democrat-led January 6th Select Committee had interviewed Roman during its nearly two-year probe of the events leading up to the 2021 Capitol riot.
Roman refused to tell the House panel whether he coordinated with Trump lawyer and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani in the scheme between Election Day and the riot, according to CNN.
Giuliani has also met with Smith’s prosecutors as well.
Gary Michael Brown, Roman’s deputy who was also involved in the effort, appeared before the grand jury last week.Pool/NBC News Roman refused to tell the House panel whether he coordinated with Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani in the time between Election Day and the riot.AP
“I don’t believe I had any interaction with him before the election,” Roman said of his communications with Giuliani, before invoking his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination about their contact after the 2020 election.
Amazon on Friday called for a re-run of an election after workers at a Staten Island warehouse voted to create the company’s first US union, claiming in a statement that actions by the US labor board and worker-organizers suppressed the vote and denied staff their voice.
The Amazon Labor Union rejected the allegations made by the online retailer that is the second-largest US private employer.
Amazon made its demand a week after the landmark victory for organized labor, which for years has sought to offer protections to workers at the company. Some 55% of employees who voted from Amazon’s JFK8 warehouse in Staten Island opted to join the ALU, which has argued for higher pay and job security. Turnout was about 58%.
Amazon spokesperson Kelly Nantel said in a statement: “We want our employees to have their voices heard, and in this case, that didn’t happen – fewer than a third of the employees at the site voted for the union.”
Amazon also accused the ALU of intimidating workers and distributing marijuana to gain votes in its favor, according to a company filing on Friday.
Some 55% of employees who voted from Amazon’s JFK8 warehouse in Staten Island opted to join the ALU, which has argued for higher pay and job security. Turnout was about 58%.REUTERS
Derrick Palmer, vice president of the ALU, said Amazon is trying to “demean our character and undermine our efforts.”
The National Labor Relations Board now must process Amazon’s objections before certifying the election result. The timing for this was not immediately clear.
In its filing, Amazon said the NLRB improperly helped the ALU gain standing to hold an election and created the impression that it supported the union. Amazon also accused the NLRB of hampering turnout through mismanagement in the polling area and by allowing camera crews on site that scared away voters.
An NLRB spokesperson declined to comment on these objections but the board has said previously that it is independent and that its enforcement actions against Amazon have been consistent with its congressional mandate.
The ALU pushed back against Amazon’s claims, saying the company did not contest low turnout in a prior union election in Alabama in which workers voted against organizing. The ALU said it was Amazon that had intimidated workers, and the union has filed dozens of unfair labor practice charges against the company.
Republican state legislators are “ready, willing and able” to help redraw the election districts that a judge ruled were illegally gerrymandered by Democrats, they said Friday — as the head of the state GOP singled out Gov. Kathy Hochul for blame.
“It’s not just a gerrymander, we’re calling it a Hochulmander,” state Republican Party Chairman Nick Langworthy said, blaming the gerrymandering on Hochul and saying she wanted to try to preserve the Democrats’ razor-thin majority in the House of Representatives.
“Kathy Hochul is directly responsible for the outcome of these maps…She was going to use her power to gerrymander districts to make sure that [President] Joe Biden has the votes for his disastrous agenda.”
State Senate Minority Leader Rob Ortt (R-Lockport) and 20 other Republican legislators offered to meet Monday with Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins (D-Yonkers) and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D-The Bronx) in the state Capitol in Albany.
But a spokesman for Stewart-Cousins said there would be no negotiations pending an appeal of Thursday’s court decision that tossed out the redistricting plan approved in February by Hochul and fellow Democrats who control both chambers of the Legislature.
The State Independent Redistricting Commission released the Democrats’ proposed map.Redistricting Partners
Steuben County state Supreme Court Justice Patrick McAllister gave lawmakers an April 11 deadline to come up with new, bipartisan maps or the job will be turned over to a court-appointed “neutral expert.”
McAllister warned that process would not only be “expensive” for taxpayers but might not produce a congressional map by Aug. 23, which he said is the last possible date to hold party primaries ahead of the Nov. 8 elections.
“In light of this decision, we look forward to working together to create maps that most accurately represent the voters of New York State,” Ortt and the Republicans said in a letter to the Democratic leaders.
“We are ready, willing and able.”
Republicans have said the maps drawn by Democrats could cost the GOP three seats in Congress currently held by freshman Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-Staten Island, Brooklyn), Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-Binghamton) and Rep. John Katko (R-Auburn), who is retiring.
The State Independent Redistricting Commission released the Republicans’ proposed map.Redistricting Partners
Democrats now outnumber Republicans 221-209 in the House, with five seats vacant.
In Malliotakis’ case, her district was carved up to remove conservative-leaning neighborhoods in southern Brooklyn, including Dyker Heights and Bath Beach, while adding Sunset Park, Gowanus and Park Slope, some of the borough’s most liberal areas.
The conservative parts were tacked on to the meandering, S-shaped Manhattan district represented by Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler, the powerful chairman of the House Judiciary Committee who’s served in Congress for three decades.
Spokespeople for Hochul and Heastie didn’t immediately return requests for comment.
Ex-President Donald Trump blasted Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp for refusing to overturn the 2020 election results at a Saturday rally supporting Kemp’s primary challenger.
“Brian Kemp is a turncoat, a coward, and a complete and total disaster,” the 45th president told a crowd of supporters in Commerce, Georgia of the fellow Republican, whom he helped get elected in 2018.
“Before we can defeat the Democrats, socialists and communists … we first have to defeat the RINO sellouts and the losers in the primaries this spring,” Trump told the crowd, referring to Kemp as a “Republican in name only.”
Trump has thrown his weight behind former Sen. David Perdue, who will face off against Kemp in the May 24 primary ahead of the pivotal midterm elections this year.
Georgia is being closely eyed as a battleground to determine how much influence Trump still wields in the Republican Party, more than a year after he left the White House.
Former President Donald Trump speaks on stage during a rally for Georgia GOP candidates at Banks County Dragway in Commerce, Georgia on March 26, 2022. AP
Trump turned on Kemp after the 2020 election, when Trump became the first GOP presidential candidate to lose the state in 28 years. Trump accused Kemp of betraying Republican voters when the governor decided not to stand by the former president’s unfounded claims of widespread voter fraud and refused to call a special session to overturn the result.
“I endorsed Brian Kemp, unfortunately, in 2018 — I feel so badly but look you can’t have them all. He was losing, I endorsed him and he won big, how about that? And he wouldn’t do a damn thing about the election fraud,” Trump said.
“We picked Kemp and now we have to get Kemp out.”
The results in Georgia were certified following three recounts, including one partially done by hand. They all affirmed Biden’s victory.
Georgia governor Brian Kemp made Donald Trump angry when the former president became the first GOP presidential candidate to lose the state of Georgia in 28 years.AP
Trump warned the Republican establishment that his supporters would not support Kemp in the November election. The GOP nominee will likely face off against Democratic former Georgia House member Stacey Abrams.
“If Brian Kemp is re-nominated he will go down in flames at the ballot box because Stacey will steal it from him and humiliate him,” Trump said.
“Trump voters … will not go out and vote for Kemp. They’re not going to vote.”
Former President Donald Trump pumps his fist, as he leaves the stage during a rally for Georgia GOP candidates in Commerce, Georgia on March 26, 2022.AP
According to a Fox News poll released this month, Perdue trailed Kemp 39% to 50%. If those numbers hold, Kemp would be within striking distance of winning the primary outright, averting a runoff.
The president also all but announced that he will be running for president again in 2024.
“The truth is I ran twice, I won twice and I just did better the second time. And now, we just might have to do it again,” he said.
Amazon workers at the company’s JFK8 Staten Island warehouse started casting ballots on Friday on whether to form a union as labor organizers look to New York for the first-ever union victory in the retail giant’s 28-year history.
As the second-largest US private employer, Amazon has long been a focus for labor advocates who hope that a single union victory will spark organizing efforts across the country.
Geebah Sando, a package sorter who has worked at JFK8 for more than two years, said he is voting in favor of the union.
He hopes a unionized workplace would mean higher wages and more benefits, including longer breaks and more paid time off.
The push to organize is spearheaded by a group of workers known as the Amazon Labor Union (ALU). In-person voting at JFK8 will last until March 30, with votes set to be counted on March 31.
“We look forward to having our employees’ voices heard. Our focus remains on working directly with our team to continue making Amazon a great place to work,” said Amazon spokesperson Kelly Nantel.
In-person voting at JFK8 will last until March 30. Votes are set to be counted on March 31.REUTERS
Keisha Renaud, 50, an associate from East Orange, NJ, said she would leave the facility if it unionizes.
“The energy they are taking to start a union, why didn’t they take that energy to start a team to talk to the managers. I think Amazon would listen,” she said, wearing a pink shirt that says “Vote No.”
Distrust of unions is common among workers, fanned by Amazon itself, which has warned in meetings staff were obliged to attend that labor groups could mandate strikes or shrink pay, something organizers have disputed.
‘NO EXPERIENCE’
Some workers said they are open to a unionized workplace but have concerns about ALU’s ability to advocate on their behalf.
“The union has no experience at all,” said Claudia Rodriguez, 58, who has worked at JFK8 for four years. Rodriguez, while walking up to the voting tent, said she was still on the fence about whether to back the union.
There was a long line to cast a vote, but Chris Smalls, president of ALU and a former employee at the Staten Island warehouse, said he was encouraged by the turnout.
“Whichever way they vote, I’m happy to see it happen,” Smalls said. Workers at the company’s other warehouse in Staten Island, LDJ5, will also vote in person on whether to unionize starting on April 25, according to a National Labor Relations Board election notice.
A rerun of last year’s failed union organizing campaign at Amazon’s warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., is also scheduled to conclude on Friday. Votes will be counted starting on Monday for this second closely watched election.
Amazon is the second-largest US private employer.REUTERS“We look forward to having our employees’ voices heard,” an Amazon representative said.REUTERS
The NLRB found that Amazon improperly interfered in the original contest, when the company won by a two-to-one margin.
The American labor movement has gained momentum over the past year, motivated by the high-profile Alabama campaign, ongoing pandemic concerns and strikes.
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ wife sent a series of texts to a top aide of then-President Donald Trump pushing to overturn the 2020 presidential election, a new report claims.
Conservative activist Virginia “Ginni” Thomas allegedly exchanged 29 texts with former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows in the weeks after Trump lost to Democrat Joe Biden, The Washington Post and CBS News reported.
The texts came as the former president’s team said it was ready to go all the way to the Supreme Court to contest the election result, leading up to and after the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol that temporarily disrupted Congress’ certification of Biden’s win over Trump.
“Help This Great President stand firm, Mark!!!” Thomas wrote in Nov. 10, 2020 message after most media outlets called the election for Biden, according to the Post.
“You are the leader, with him, who is standing for America’s constitutional governance at the precipice. The majority knows Biden and the Left is attempting the greatest Heist of our History.”
Thomas never mentions her husband or the court in the messages, which were among the more than 2,300 turned over by Meadows to the House select committee investigating the riot, the Post said.
But the messages allegedly include her making reference to “The Biden crime family” and urging Meadows to continue the fight. A final message sent four days after Jan. 6 laments what Thomas calls “the end of Liberty.”
Thomas allegedly exchanged 29 texts with former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows.APThomas told Meadows “Do not concede,” according to the report.APJustice Thomas differed when in February 2021 the Supreme Court rejected challenges to the election.Getty Images
On Nov. 5, 2020, two days after Election Day, Thomas wrote to Meadows “Do not concede,” according to the report.
“Biden crime family & ballot fraud co-conspirators (elected officials, bureaucrats, social media censorship mongers, fake stream media reporters, etc) are being arrested & detained for ballot fraud right now & over coming days, & will be living in barges off GITMO to face military tribunals for sedition,” Thomas wrote in a message on the same day.
Meadows replied that he planned to “stand firm,” the report said. Of the texts reviewed by the Post and CBS News, 21 are from Thomas while eight are replies from Meadows. One of the messages apparently references a separate conversation with Jared, an apparent reference to Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner.
Thomas apparently attended a “Stop the Steal” rally on Jan. 10 that preceded the riot at the Capitol, although she later said she left early and didn’t have any role in the event, the Post said. Still, four days later, she texted Meadows expressing disappointment with then-Vice President Mike Pence, who declined to block the certification of Biden’s win.
Associate Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas sits with his wife Virginia at the Heritage Foundation.Getty ImagesFormer Vice President Mike Pence speaks at the National Press Club in Washington, Nov. 30, 2021.AP
“We are living through what feels like the end of America,” Thomas wrote on Jan. 10, according to the Post.
“Most of us are disgusted with the VP and are in listening mode to see where to fight with our teams. Those who attacked the Capitol are not representative of our great teams of patriots for DJT!”
“Amazing times,” she added, according to the Post. “The end of Liberty.”
Justice Thomas later dissented when in February 2021 the Supreme Court rejected challenges to the election.
Meadows’ attorney declined comment on individual texts but told the Post and CBS the messages didn’t present “any legal issues.” The Thomases didn’t respond to a request for comment from the publications.
The Houston area’s top election official resigned Tuesday, after receiving scathing criticism from both Democrats and Republicans for a slew of mishaps during last week’s primary elections.
Harris County Elections Administrator Isabel Longoria publicly accepted the blame for the failures, which included broken voting machines, long lines during the vote and some 10,000 uncounted ballots that were discovered days after polls closed.
“Today I am submitting my resignation effective July 1,” said Longoria, as she announced her resignation before the Harris County Commission. “Ultimately the buck stops with me. I didn’t meet my standards or those set by the commissioner’s court.”
The embattled elections administrator, in charge of voting in the largest county in Texas, said she would stay on until a replacement can be found to take charge of upcoming elections. Harris County has two upcoming elections in May and the general election in November.
Harsh criticism for Longoria came from both sides of the aisle, as election workers came forward to talk about equipment failures on election day and Democratic voters being turned away due to a lack of party poll workers in the primary.
Harris County Elections Administrator Isabel Longoria announced her resignation after taking responsibility for allowing 10,000 ballots to be uncounted.Facebook
Longoria is also being sued by the Harris County Republican Party after approximately 10,000 uncounted ballots were found Saturday– four days after the Texas primary elections. The GOP had called for her to step down and for independent oversight of future elections.
Longoria says the roughly 10,000 votes were reported immediately when found by her office. However, Commissioner Tom Ramsey pointed out that’s not how the missing votes were discovered.
“We know about them because of the protocol if the Secretary of State was able to call us and say, ‘Hey, you’re short the 10,000,” said Ramsey.
Election workers dealt with faulty equipment during the Texas primary on March 1, 2022.REUTERS/Shelby Tauber
The roughly 6,000 Democrat and 4,000 Republican uncounted votes have yet to be added to the final tally of votes for Harris County. It’s possible their addition to the tally today could change the outcome of at least two Democratic primary races, according to the Texas Tribune.
Republicans in Texas filed a lawsuit against the Harris County elections administrator Monday after it was revealed that 10,000 mail-in ballots weren’t originally included in the March 1 primary count.
The Harris County Republican Party says it has lost all faith in Elections Administrator Isabel Longoria, who they claim is responsible for the “worst elections fiasco in Texas history,” according to the lawsuit.
The Office of the Election Administrator in the county — which contains Houston — admitted to finding the 10,000 uncounted votes on Saturday, days after the primary election.
“How do you find 10,000 votes on a Saturday?” said outraged Texas GOP Senator Paul Bettencourt during a press conference with party leaders.
The 6,000 Democratic ballots and 4,000 Republican ballots were scanned into a tabulation machine, but were not tallied into the unofficial final count on election night.
“While we understand the seriousness of this error, the ability to identify and correct this issue is a result of a lengthy, rigorous process and is a positive example of the process ultimately working as it should,” the elections office said.
The Harris County Republican Party is suing Elections Administrator Isabel Longoria after 10,000 uncounted votes were found for the primary election earlier this month. Photo by Montinique Monroe/Getty Images
The votes are expected to be tallied into the total on Tuesday, before the election is certified.
The elections office couldn’t tell the Post how many races might be affected by the additional votes. A spokesperson said: “We don’t know.”
The GOP also alleges a slew of other problems with the election, from voting equipment being delivered late by Longoria’s office to ballots that couldn’t be read by tabulation machines. Incorrect ballots were also issued to certain polling locations, preventing people from being able to vote, the suit claims.
The filing alleges Longoria’s office provided ballots on the wrong size paper and failed to deliver the required number of working voting machines and adequate supplies.
The lawsuit calls the situation the “worst elections fiasco in Texas history.” Photo by Montinique Monroe/Getty Images
The lawsuit asks for Longoria to step down or be fired and for court oversight for upcoming elections.
Through a spokeswoman, Longoria told the Post she has no intention to step down right now.
Harris County Democratic Party Chair Odus Evbaghar, who is a member of the five-person commission that appointed Longoria, said his party remains concerned about the missing votes and hopes to restore confidence in the process.
“We called for a post-election review of all processes — there has not been any skirting of party responsibility, and we have been completely transparent in our desire to dig into the details of what went wrong and identify how to make corrections moving forward,” he said in the statement, obtained by KHOU.
“Hitler,” “beast,” and “parasite” are some of the choicer insults leveled by both camps. Some are even calling it “The Squid Game Election,” in reference to Netflix’s megahit survival drama where people are killed if they lose children’s games.
And the stakes? There’s widespread speculation that the loser will be arrested.
“It’s a dreadful presidential election when the losing contender faces prison. Please survive this dogfight in the mire!” senior opposition politician Hong Joon-pyo wrote on Facebook.
Just days before Wednesday’s election, Lee Jae-myung from the liberal governing Democratic Party and Yoon Suk Yeol from the main conservative opposition People Power Party are locked in an extremely tight race.
Their negative campaigns are aggravating South Korea’s already severe political divide at a time when it faces a battered, pandemic-hit economy, a balancing act over competition between its main ally, Washington, and its top trading partner, China, and a raft of threats and weapons tests from rival North Korea.
Lee Jae-myung, the presidential candidate of the ruling Democratic Party, is greeted by supporters during a presidential election campaign in Seoul, South Korea on March 3, 2022. AP
Opinion surveys show that both candidates have more critics than supporters.
“Isn’t our national future too bleak with an unpleasant and bitter presidential election that calls for choosing the lesser of two evils?” the mass-circulation Dong-A Ilbo newspaper said in an editorial.
Yoon has slammed Lee over his possible ties to an allegedly corrupt land development scandal. Lee has denied any connection, and in turn has tried to link Yoon to the same scandal, while separately criticizing him for his reported ties to shamanism — an ancient, indigenous religious belief.
There have also been attacks on the candidates’ wives, both of whom have been forced to apologize over separate scandals.
Yoon described Lee’s party as “Hitler” and “Mussolini” while an associate called Lee’s purported aides “parasites.” Lee’s allies called Yoon “a beast,” “dictator” and “an empty can” and derided his wife’s alleged plastic surgery.
Their campaign teams and supporters have filed dozens of lawsuits charging libel and the spread of false information, among other issues.
“This year’s presidential election has been more overwhelmed by negative campaigning than any other previous election, and the mutual hatred won’t easily die down after the election,” said Choi Jin, director of the Seoul-based Institute of Presidential Leadership.
Among the fault lines in the electorate are South Korean regional rivalries, views on North Korea, a conflict between generations, economic inequality and women’s rights issues.
Yoon is more popular with older voters and those in the southeastern region of Gyeongsang, where past conservative and authoritarian leaders came from. His supporters typically advocate a stronger military alliance with the United States and a tougher line on North Korea, and they credit past authoritarian rulers for quickly developing the economy after the Korean War.
Yoon Suk Yeol, center, presidential candidate of the main opposition People Power Party, is greeted by supporters during a presidential election campaign in Seoul, South Korea on Feb. 15, 2022. AP
Lee enjoys greater support from younger people and those from Jeolla province, Gyeongsang’s rival region in the southwest. His supporters generally want an equal footing in relations with the United States and rapprochement with North Korea while being extremely critical of past authoritarian rulers’ human rights records.
In a notable development, many surveys showed Yoon has received greater approval ratings than Lee from voters aged 18 to 29, most of whom were born after South Korea became a developed country.
“They didn’t experience poverty and dictatorships. … They are very critical of China and North Korea, and they have rather friendly feelings toward the U.S. and Japan,” said Park Sung-min, head of Seoul-based MIN Consulting, a political consulting firm.
South Korea’s deep divisions are reflected in the troubles of the last three leaders. Their supporters say intense corruption investigations after they left office were politically motivated by their rivals.
During a corruption probe of his family, former liberal President Roh Moo-hyun jumped to his death in 2009, a year after he left office. His successor, the conservative Lee Myung-bak, and Lee’s conservative successor, Park Geun-hye, were separately convicted of a range of crimes, including corruption, and given lengthy prison terms after Roh’s friend and current President Moon Jae-in took office in 2017.
Park was pardoned in December, but Lee is still serving a 17-year prison term.
Moon’s government took a big hit with a scandal involving Moon’s former justice minister and close associate, Cho Kuk. Cho and his family members are alleged to have participated in financial crimes and the faking of credentials to help Cho’s daughter enter medical school.
Cho was seen as a reformist and potential liberal presidential hopeful. Moon’s early attempts to keep Cho in office split the public, with his critics calling for Cho’s resignation and supporters rallying to his side during large street protests.
Placards featuring ruling and opposition presidential candidates hang over a street in Seoul, South Korea on Feb. 17, 2022.AP
Yoon originally served as Moon’s prosecutor general and spearheaded investigations of previous conservative governments. But he eventually left Moon’s government and joined the opposition last year after a conflict with Moon’s allies over the Cho case helped him emerge as a potential presidential contender.
“Cho’s case was a watershed in South Korean politics. It made Yoon a presidential candidate, and many in their 20s and 30s switched their support from Moon,” said Choi, the institute director.
During a recent TV debate, Yoon and Lee agreed not to launch politically motivated investigations against the other side if they win. But some question their sincerity.
In a newspaper interview last month, Yoon said that if elected, his government would investigate possible wrongdoing by the Moon government and also the land development scandal that Lee has been allegedly linked to.
When Moon’s government was conducting widespread investigations of past conservative governments, Lee said they were necessary to eradicate “deep-rooted evils and injustice.”
Cho Jinman, a professor at Seoul’s Duksung Women’s University, said a new president must exercise restraint and calm calls for political revenge by hard-line supporters.
“We now have an election race like ‘Squid Game,’ but it will be a new president’s responsibility to pull us out of it,” he said.
Former President Donald Trump is the overwhelming favorite for the GOP nomination in the 2024 presidential election, according to the results of a straw poll announced Sunday.
Trump got 59 percent of the vote in a straw poll conducted at the Conservative Political Action Conference‘s meeting in Orlando, Fla., beating out Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis by 31 percentage points.
But the unscientific survey also showed support for Trump, who delivered the keynote address at CPAC on Saturday night, slipping, while DeSantis gained ground.
In July 2021, Trump got 70 percent of the vote at CPAC, with the Florida governor coming in second with 21 percent.
This year’s informal survey showed that Trump and DeSantis are the leading contenders for the nomination in 2024, as the next closest candidate was former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who came in third with 2 percent of the vote.
Trump got 59 percent of the vote in the straw poll.CPACFlorida Gov. Ron DeSantis came in second in the straw poll for the 2024 GOP nomination.Photo by Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
No other Republican cracked 1 percent.
Among the 1 percenters were Sens. Rand Paul of Kentucky, Tim Scott of South Carolina and Ted Cruz of Texas, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, former Vice President Mike Pence, former UN ambassador Nikki Haley and Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin.
Asked who the 2024 GOP nominee would likely square off against, 22 percent of the attendees selected Hillary Clinton, who finished 8 percentage points ahead of President Biden.
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo came in third place with 2 percent of the vote.Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images
Former first lady Michelle Obama came in second with 17 percent, followed by Biden at 14 percent, Vice President Kamala Harris at 11 percent, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg with 6 percent and California Gov. Gavin Newsom at 5 percent.
Progressive New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez finished with 1 percent, as did Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and media mogul Oprah Winfrey.
