CPAC backs Trump as 2024 GOP presidential candidate

Former President Donald Trump overwhelmingly won a CPAC straw poll for the 2024 Republican nomination, defeating Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis by a 40-point margin. Trump topped DeSantis, 62% to 20%, in a Saturday poll of 2,028 Conservative Political Action Conference attendees, organizers said. Trump was the keynote speaker Saturday at CPAC, held just outside Washington, D.C., in Oxon Hill, Md., where he was introduced as “the next president of the United States.” “Thank you for the beautiful straw poll,” Trump said. “That was a big win.” Businessman Perry Johnson was...