A straw poll at the conservative political action conference annual meeting has former president trump as their favorite to be the Republican presidential nominee again I'm Ben Thomas with the latest we did it twice and we'll do it again we're going to be doing it again a third time former president trump Saturday in Orlando indicating he will run for president in twenty twenty four in his speech trump again falsely blamed his twenty twenty election loss on widespread voter fraud for which there is no evidence he also defended his recent praise of Russian president Vladimir Putin of course he's smart but the real problem is that our leaders are dumb trump expressed support for the Ukrainian people and praise president Vladimir is a lan ski is a brave man trump earned fifty nine percent of the sepak straw poll followed by Florida governor Ron DeSantis with twenty eight percent no one else had more than two percent I'm