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What Do All the GOP 2024 Presidential Hopefuls Believe?
All of them — including Trump
If you’ve been keeping track, you know that the 2024 Republican presidential field is getting rather crowded.
According to The Hill, so far we officially have Trump, Ron DeSantis, Chris Christie, Mike Pence, Tim Scott, Asa Hutchinson, Nikki Haley, and Vivek Ramaswamy — with Glenn Youngkin and Doug Bergum looking like they’ll be jumping in. Perhaps even Chris Sununu.
One has to ask oneself: “Don’t they know that this helps Trump in the primary?” That’s the chief point of The Hill article — see the headline:
The problem is summarized here in the same article:
Their shared worry is that if Trump maintains his solid grip on his core supporters, estimated to comprise 30 percent to 40 percent of the GOP primary electorate, the ex-president will cruise to victory if the remaining share of voters is divided among too many other candidates.
‘A replay of 2016? Yeah,’ Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) said of the concerns he shares with some of his Republican colleagues.
Oddly though, the article does not talk about the candidates themselves being worried about that.
