Ben Carson straw poll, Resigned neurosurgeon Ben Carson helpfully won the Southern Republican Leadership Conference straw survey on Saturday, the first significant overview to take the temperature of the Republican presidential field in the south.
Carson, a staunch adversary of Obamacare who is prevalent among social preservationists, caught 25.4% of the vote in a pool that checked about 20 competitors, including reported and forthcoming hopefuls for the party's 2016 designation. Runners-up Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz additionally got substantial shares of the vote, completing with 20.5% and 16.6%, separately.
The SRLC said in a press discharge that the review is one of the first straw surveys of the 2016 cycle "and is a marker of southern essential voter backing."
This was a fiery and motivating gathering," meeting seat Steve Fair said in the discharge. "On the off chance that the level of enthusiasm for this straw survey is any pointer, a Republican applicant will be all around situated to retake the White House in 2016."
The meeting, which was held in Oklahoma City, started on Thursday and finished Saturday. The occasion facilitated 13 "conceivable" presidential contenders, the discharge said, and also a few governors, congressional pioneers and other noticeable Republicans.
A sum of 958 voted in the straw survey, an aggregate of 64% of the meeting's enrolled participants, the discharge said. Voting was led both on location and online just by enrolled participants who physically went to the meeting.
Carson, a staunch adversary of Obamacare who is prevalent among social preservationists, caught 25.4% of the vote in a pool that checked about 20 competitors, including reported and forthcoming hopefuls for the party's 2016 designation. Runners-up Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz additionally got substantial shares of the vote, completing with 20.5% and 16.6%, separately.
The SRLC said in a press discharge that the review is one of the first straw surveys of the 2016 cycle "and is a marker of southern essential voter backing."
This was a fiery and motivating gathering," meeting seat Steve Fair said in the discharge. "On the off chance that the level of enthusiasm for this straw survey is any pointer, a Republican applicant will be all around situated to retake the White House in 2016."
The meeting, which was held in Oklahoma City, started on Thursday and finished Saturday. The occasion facilitated 13 "conceivable" presidential contenders, the discharge said, and also a few governors, congressional pioneers and other noticeable Republicans.
A sum of 958 voted in the straw survey, an aggregate of 64% of the meeting's enrolled participants, the discharge said. Voting was led both on location and online just by enrolled participants who physically went to the meeting.
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