Pence and Hutchinson get slaughtered in Blaze Media straw poll while Ramaswamy earns plaudits

A Blaze Media straw poll about the presidential forum in Iowa last week found that author and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy earned high marks for his performance, but other candidates were not as well received.

Tucker Carlson interviewed multiple GOP presidential hopefuls at the FAMiLY Leadership Summit last week. Blaze Media teamed up with the FAMiLY Leader for the event. The Republican primary candidates who sat for interviews with Carlson included former Vice President Mike Pence, former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, Ramaswamy, U.S. Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

The poll results discussed below were current as of the time of writing, but the straw poll results are still fluid because new responses keep coming in. The number of votes cast in each particular question varies.

Ramaswamy earned more than 62% of the votes cast in response to the question, "Which candidate would you say performed the BEST?" DeSantis placed second with more than 32%, while Scott received 4%. Haley had more than 1%, and Hutchinson and Pence both had well below 1%.

But Hutchinson and Pence dominated when it came to the question of who had performed the worst, with Pence earning more than 54% of the votes and Hutchinson earning nearly 42%.

On the question of whether Ramaswamy's performance left people more or less likley to vote for him, just over 78% of the votes were for more likely, while more than 3% were for less likely, and more than 18% of the votes were for neither.

But when the same question was posed regarding Pence, more than 88% of votes cast on that question indicated that Pence's performance at the forum had left people less likely to vote for him. Similarly, that number was over 84% for Hutchinson.

On the question of who respondents are most likely to back in the Republican presidential primary, more than 51% of the votes were cast in support of former President Donald Trump, who did not attend the event. DeSantis trailed with more than 32%, while Ramaswamy placed third with 13%.

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