John Bolton Rips Trump's CPAC Straw Poll Results: 'A Pathetic Figure'

[DonViejo]

By Zachary Petrizzo Feb 28th, 2021, 7:56 pm

Former National Security Adviser John Bolton called the Conservative Political Action Conference’s (CPAC) straw poll results a “pathetic” showing for former President Donald Trump, who teased a possible 2024 run during his speech.

As Mediaite reported, the results from CPAC’s 2021 straw poll showed Trump would be the “preferred nominee of 55% of attendees.”

“But just to take CPAC, if this is the epitome of support for Trump, the straw poll that was taken this weekend and released just before Trump spoke, showed of all the participants 55% supported Trump being re-elected as president,” Bolton told CNN Newsroom anchor Pamela Brown.

“That is a pathetic figure,” he added. “I would have expected 90%. So if 55%, one month after leaving office at CPAC, is the best he can do, that’s a mark of how far he has fallen already.”

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[flibbitygiblets]

1. Takes one to know one

Bolton could have spoken up when he was asked to during the first impeachment. But he held out in favor of book sales.

[Colgate 64]

2. Dumpy is yesterday's news

They just haven't realized it yet.

[Omnipresent]

7. Trump never realizes anything...

The manchild is always out to lunch.

[rpannier]

10. As long as the Republikkans pander to him, he'll be relevant

Especially if his slate of candidates do really against other Republikkans and in the GE
His following appears to be really attached and it could be as much as 20% (or higher) of the voting population

[Colgate 64]

11. If the best he could do at the crazies convention

is get 55% of "I'll definitely vote for him in 2024" that's not saying much. And if his 'vengance' fails to block anti-Trump people from being reelected in 2022 you can write him off as irrelevant.

[empedocles]

3. Which is more pathetic 55% or only 1/3 the attendees at c rap

[hlthe2b]

4. Uggh. I detest the Cheneys, but I honestly think I can acknowledge Liz's position on Trump

as somewhat sincere. Bolton? All self-serving. That said, it rankles Trump, so please proceed.

[DFW]

5. Fascinating

So even John Bolton's powers of perception are subject to moments of lucidity.

[BComplex]

6. LOL

Good observation!

[gratuitous]

8. If anyone would know a pathetic figure

It would be John Bolton, who sees one staring back at him from the bathroom mirror every morning.

[Hortensis]

9. Conservative Charlie Sykes called CPAC the "insurrection afterparty."

His kind of Republicans lost their party years ago now, and they and many others, like Bolton, watched the growth of authoritarianism in the GOP during this century with very different degrees of approval or alarm, but the trumpzis' free-fall into bottomless depravity seems to be uniting them in appalled amazement.

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