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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 they get elected they get it done.
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 good point about
constitutional conservatives of our party have spoken in a loud and clear voice today. i plan on doing my part and i hope you will join me as i continue to make the gop a bigger, better and bolder party. on that front, i've had several conversations with rand paul, with senator paul during this invisible primary season. and he says -- had is one of the things that he hammers on every time he is out there speaking is the republican party has to grow itself. it has to broaden out. it has to diversify. if it wants to win in 2016, it's got to be a bigger party than it is today. clearly, rand paul and the conservative side of things, again, you saw the participation of young people. they really are driving the conservative movement in the republican party. so i think it's pretty safe to say that conservatives are going to do well in this primary season and as the straw poll suggests, rand paul and scott walker and ted cruz will be leading that charge. >> john, the headline may be paul won, but the other headline is scott walker did so welcoming in second just five points
at the average age of the republican candidates it's probably about 48, maybe 50 years old. but if you look on the democratic side, it's probably 68 yearss'; old. so arthel, i think there could be a real contrast in the 2016 election. >> definitely those demographics pointing that out, that really is a big deal because as you highlighted that president obama got there very much on the backs of those young students those people who are very involved in the internet and social media, et cetera. how does that sort -- what we're look at, kelly ann conway with the polling company explaining how this works, how they came to their results howprpl(tj therl demographics we're talking about, how does that bode for scott bñ walker?vixnç >> reporter: i think it could bode well for scott walker. ted cruz and rand paul tend to but scott walker certainly not as well-known as either one of them. but when you look at the results of the quinnipiac poll i cited earlier in iowa, that's an
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>> there you have it. a threepete. the winner of 2015 cpac straw poll, rand paul senator from kentucky. john roberts, if you're still there, you called it. you said that having 42% of the participants being students, younger demographic, you said that was a good sign for senator paul. >> reporter: yep. certainly. but it was kind of as easy as picking secretary for the triple crown. in fact, i just got a note from sergio says this is the triple crown, third win in a roam senator paul says quote, i am humbled by the enthusiastic support and encouragement i received this week at the conference. our party is filled with constitutional conservatives who have chosen to stand with me for a third consecutive straw poll victory. since president ronald reagan, the conservative political action conference has been the gold standard on where conservatives stand, the
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