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onepoorguy: I suspect he will win the GOP nomination. I don't think Trump can do it...
Unless he has a heart attack or stroke and dies, I expect Trump to be the 2024 republican nominee. He will never relax his stranglehold on the republican party.
Among the current crop of potential candidates, only Chris Christie has dared criticize Trump by name, and Christie has a zero percent chance of winning the nomination. Haley, Pence, Pompeo, and Scott have shied away from criticizing Trump. None of them has a shot at the nomination either. Larry Hogan has dropped out (not that he had a shot to begin with), everyone hates Ted Cruz and he'll have to defend his Senate seat in 2024, and while Youngkin fooled Virginians he'll have a hard time doing that a second time. Kristi Noem? Nope, republicans won't support a woman at the top of the ticket. Asa Hutchinson? Hhhmmm, he has taken a few shots at Trump but he's so insignificant Trump hasn't felt the need to destroy him. Yet. Will Hurd is as dull as dishwater. Fist Pumping Running Man Josh Hawley? Umm. Then there's Sununu, a guy who doesn't come across as totally batchit crazy but, in the republican party is that a plus or a minus?
And what will Liz Cheney do? She's made it her mission to block Trump from a second term. Does she run just to stand on a debate stage with him get him to lose his mind?
So that leaves your choice, DeSantis. Had DeSantis been smarter, he'd have pledged his loyalty and positioned himself for the VP slot under Trump, then hoped to take the reins in 2028... assuming Trump hadn't turned the American presidency into a dictatorship and anointed himself King for life.
Of course, perhaps that was Plan A for DeSantis and was quickly abandoned after he saw that Trump was happy to encourage his cult to -- what was it they chanted? -- oh, right, "Hang Mike Pence."
