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Ted Cruz Wins Straw Poll of Gathering of Leading Conservatives & Kansas

© AP Photo / Charlie NeibergallRepublican presidential candidate, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, greets supporters during a caucus night rally, Monday, Feb. 1, 2016, in Des Moines, Iowa
Republican presidential candidate, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, greets supporters during a caucus night rally, Monday, Feb. 1, 2016, in Des Moines, Iowa - Sputnik International
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Senator Ted Cruz has won the presidential straw poll at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington DC, a coveted but non-binding vote by conservative activists.

Republican U.S. presidential candidates former Governor Jeb Bush (L) and businessman Donald Trump (R) speak simultaneously about the war in Iraq and the record of Bush's brother, former President George W. Bush, as Senator Ted Cruz (C) looks on during the Republican U.S. presidential candidates debate sponsored by CBS News and the Republican National Committee in Greenville, South Carolina February 13, 2016. - Sputnik International
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Forty percent of activists at the leading conference of right-wing activists picked Senator Cruz as their preferred candidate for president, while Marco Rubio won 30 percent support and Donald Trump came in third place with 15 percent. John Kasich trailed with eight percent.

Additionally, Cruz has also been called the winner of the Kansas caucuses happening today.

In Maine, with some five percent of the vote counted, Cruz received 48 percent, Trump's share in the vote was 35 percent, Rubio gained 8.6 percent, with Kasich given 7.4 percent.

Nearly 2,700 activists voted in the CPAC poll, organizers said.  The average age of participants was only around 35 years-old, a young showing for this group.

The strong showing by Ted Cruz in the CPAC poll comes only hours after the Senator from Texas was booed while stage at CPAC. After making a joke about the lawsuits against the front-runner for the Republican nomination, Donald Trump, a number of attendees in the audience chanted "Trump! Trump! Trump!"

However, at least for today, Cruz seems to have the last laugh with a clear win among the most active staunch conservatives. Cruz remains a distant second in the actual race for the nomination having only won four states — including Kansas — to Trump's seven. The count before Kansas had Trump at 329 to Cruz's 231.

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