scott walker! all right. could we get a drum roll! come on! how about the audience, can i get a drum roll from you? show us the slide. the winner of the cpac 2015 presidential straw poll is rand paul. all right! way to go! wasn t cpac awesome?
stage to a great degree during those battles in wisconsin winning the straw toll will give him a boost going forward. i think after kind of the last couple of weeks that scott walker has had, beginning with that trip to london where he was asked about evolution and was asked if he thought obama was a christian and that unfortunate statement where he said that you can take on isis because he s taken on protesters in wisconsin. i think this is a much needed turn around. john roberts, thanks for staying on top of it all for us. we re going to show the slide one more time of the winners of the 2015 cpac with rand paul going for threepete, coming in first, 26%. scott walker, 21%. ted cruz, 12%. ben carson 11%. and rounding out the top five governor jeb bush with 8%. what s interesting, we have some other numbers beyond that in last place at number ten.
her side of things. what the republican party really needs to do, and cruz was urging members of the club for growth to back this, is the republican party has to grow its grassroots movement as well and eliminate this split really between the establishment and the tea party. bring those two factions together. it s possible that a candidate like rand paul might be able to do that. it s also possible that a candidate like scott walker may be able to do that. are they getting ready to announce this or still doing demographics? they re doing demographics. the reason i say that about walker is, he is a darling of the tea party. but he also won election based (4jq ijz support from independents. he s already crossing over those groups i. asked him about that. he told me that people are sick and tired of what s going on in washington. they re sick and tired of hearing promises and nothing happens. they want to look toward a politician whobpcñ says what they re going to do and then when th
on the republican side that voters w politician, will want to nominate somebody, will want to have a candidate who will follow through on what they say they will do. and that really could help elevate rand(&kl paul ted cruz, and scott walker. although you have to remember jeb bush has done a lot. he s just been out of office for a while. so he hasn t been campaigning too much. but if you look at his record here in florida he got a lot done as well. john, you mentioned those. let s talk about rick perry. very successful and warm3x embrace at the cpac andwg ñ he really went after the islamics. he has to go past his first run he had a few years ago. but others say look he s a veteran. he flew hercules planes around the world. he s a tough talking texan who had a pretty successful economic record to run on. do you think0s could turn out to be some kind of dark horse in this race as we
behind senator paul. and ted cruz, what does this mean the same question, what does this mean to scott walker and what does it mean to ted cruz? i think it s a real boost for scott walker because he hasn t been in the national stage before. certainly rand paul has. and by virtue of his association with his father is a well-known name. ted cruz obviously playing in national politics. when you re governor you don t necessarily rise to the national stage to the degree you do when you re one of the elite 100 in washington or like jeb bush, you carry a very famous name along with you. so i think this really is a boost for scott walker. i think they re probably very pleased in scott walker s camp to come in second. i think they ve got to be pleased in jeb bush s camp as well after being the subject and the target of so much derision by the republican party to company in fifth. i bet the conspiracy theorists are going to say he stacked the deck by bussing all these people in. you make a g