Submitted by Gillespie campaign:
“Longtime conservative leader, 2014 U.S. Senate nominee and 2017 Republican candidate for governor Ed Gillespie won the straw poll at the Prince William County GOP Lincoln-Reagan Dinner Saturday night with over 60 percent of the vote.
Gillespie won with 62 percent of the vote, followed by Corey Stewart at 24 percent, Denver Riggleman at eight percent, and Frank Wagner at three percent. The Prince William County straw poll is the largest straw poll conducted in the primary to date.
Full Results
Gillespie – 62%, 165 votes
Stewart – 24%, 65 votes
Riggleman – 8%, 23 votes
Wager – 3%, 8 votes”
Corey Stewart, who is the county’s top politician on the Prince William County Board of Supervisors, reacted to the news on Twitter.
From Stewart’s Twitter Account:
I won in PWC 4 elections in a row – hundreds of thousands of votes. #EstablishmentEd has never won an election. Easy to buy a straw poll.
— Corey Stewart (@CoreyStewartVA) March 5, 2017
#EstablishmentEd bused in his high dollar Fairfax supporters for the PWC Lincoln Dinner. Tickets were $85 a piece. #Rigged
— Corey Stewart (@CoreyStewartVA) March 5, 2017
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