movement and the future of the republican party. reporter: it s mr. trump s republican party now. his realinement of the gop already under way. hailed as a hero today at the conservative political action conference, outlining his america first agenda that goes against the grain of recent republican orthodoxy. there s no such thing as a global anthem, a global currency or a global flag. this is the united states of america that i m representing. welcome to cpac 2016. reporter: at the same gathering last year just you of washington, many republicans recoiled at the idea of a trump presidency, he cancelled and then went on to win. it was here six years ago when mr. trump s goal to win the white house was born.
straw poll. and ipo participating%deñ. some people like to say the straw poll doesn t matter, why are we doing it? i m here to tell you we douz because we believe you matter. at cpac, your voice is heard and your opinions count. i d also like a give a special thanks to kevin quinnly and nate land, part of our polling team in this effort. before we get to the winners of the presidential straw poll, we d like to review with you some of the demographics from the poll and in keeping with the spirit and the content of the 2015 cpac, we d like to show you the responses to the substantive issuesw all three legs of the conservativeldfçz were represented, in the straw poll and we want these aspirants to
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?
okay, we have one more slide. we re almost done. there we go. there is the slide. wasn t cpac 2015 awesome? are you going to sign up for cpac 2016? will you be active in your community? will you be active on your campuses? will you be active in the conservative principles every single day? we represent you! this is your cpac! this is your vision! conservative action starts here!
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.