CPAC straw poll: Biden biggest threat to Trump

Conservatives view former Vice President Joseph R. Biden as the “biggest threat” to President Trump in the 2020 election, according to Saturday’s Washington Times/CPAC straw poll. Sens. Bernard Sanders and Kamala Harris were a distant second and third.

Mr. Biden was the most feared opponent by nearly 40 percent of voters at the Conservative Political Action Conference, while between 11 and 12 percent picked the two senators, out of a list of more than 22 possible candidates.

Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke trailed far back in fourth place at 4.5 percent, while a pair of billionaires, former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz were next in line. Mr. Schultz is running as an independent.

Sens. Cory Booker, Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar barely registered. with none cracking the 2 percent mark as a feared presence.Meanwhile, within the GOP itself, the more than 900 conservatives polled said Mr. Trump has their vote in a 2020 primary. More than 80 percent will back him, and his closest potential opponent would be Sen. Mitt Romney, the GOP’s 2012 nominee who failed to unseat President Obama, far behind at 6 percent support.