I think Trump is going to declare he's running insanely early in order to preempt getting indicted for the documents at Mar-a-Lago. When he does decleare it'll mean that the De Santis' and the Cruz's of the world will have to refrain from running, because they sold their soul to the MAGA crowd ages ago and they can't get off of Mr. Trump's Wild Ride now. There will be no primary; only a coronation.
If by some divine intervention he does get arrested, the Republican primary will be a competition to see who can capture the inevitable MAGA fury over Trump's arrest. Candidates will run on pardoning Trump, tearing down the FBI, and absolutely no material policy positions whatsoever. Of course, the winning candidate would never actually pardon Trump or reform the FBI. Trump getting arrested would have cleared the path to power for them and pardoning him would only threaten their position, and the FBI is already fash as fuck.
I think Trump is going to declare he's running insanely early in order to preempt getting indicted for the documents at Mar-a-Lago. When he does decleare it'll mean that the De Santis' and the Cruz's of the world will have to refrain from running, because they sold their soul to the MAGA crowd ages ago and they can't get off of Mr. Trump's Wild Ride now. There will be no primary; only a coronation.
If by some divine intervention he does get arrested, the Republican primary will be a competition to see who can capture the inevitable MAGA fury over Trump's arrest. Candidates will run on pardoning Trump, tearing down the FBI, and absolutely no material policy positions whatsoever. Of course, the winning candidate would never actually pardon Trump or reform the FBI. Trump getting arrested would have cleared the path to power for them and pardoning him would only threaten their position, and the FBI is already fash as fuck.