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
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.