For many months, conventional media wisdom has told us that Joe Biden would be the strongest candidate to defeat Donald Trump in 2024 because he did it before. The claim was always on shaky ground -- after all, Trump was the ultimate symbol of the status quo when he lost in 2020, as Biden would be i
Imagine he has a stroke. Imagine the clown they end up rolling out to go against Trump. Imagine Pete Buttigieg on a stage with Donald Trump, pursing his lips and looking at the moderator. Imagine Kamala Harris getting deeply burned and then cackling for literally no reason. Imagine hearing Donald Trump shout Pocahontas over and over to thunderous applause.
Do you really think Trump is going to take the nomination in '24?
I just don't think the GOP is going to let him. Not this time. They'll all have the long knives out, and all he'll be able to do is shout about how unfair everyone is being.
They're not going to let him, but he's not going to let them not let him.
He will run third party. his own party! His own perfect, beautiful party without the LOSERS!
I don't doubt that Trump could throw a wrench in the GOP field during a general election run. But I get the sense that - at best - he'd function as a Perot-style challenger. Someone to soak up protest votes in states where the winner is pre-ordained, like California or Florida or Texas or New York.
But without a permanent national presence via round-the-clock news coverage and endless high profile Twitter comments, I just don't think he's going to have the juice going into the next election cycle.
He won't actually have to do it, because he is the only one on the Republican side who would dare do it.
Way too much work, he hates work. Seriously, people really underestimate his laziness.
And GOP legislators will still be kissing his ass.