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Trump could run again in 2024. If he does, it’s hard to see anyone beating him for the Republican nomination.
Although Trump lost the presidential election by about 7 million votes, he is by far the most popular figure in the country among IDP voters. He has a huge fundraiser – he raised about $ 170 million in the month after the election – and he can attract media attention like no other.
Trump will still be 78 by the next election. He also has financial pressure, and the next few years will be heavily indebted. He will continue to command the headlines, but there are firm reasons why he cannot run for the presidency again.
There is speculation that one of Trump’s children, perhaps his older daughter Ivanka, may enter the political arena. But here are some other front-line candidates for the 2024 GOP nomination.
Nikki Haley
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Haley was the sitting governor of South Carolina when Trump elected her to become the US ambassador to the United Nations at the beginning of his term. She served in the position for almost two years.
It’s easy to make the case for Haley: her role in the Trump administration joins the president and gives her a good will with his supporters. At the same time, she has other assets that could appeal to the kind of well-educated suburban residents they turned to in November with the decisive effect against Trump.
She was cut from more conventional ideological cloths than the president, as a mainstream, pro-business Republican. Haley has also always been a subject of media fascination, in part because she was the first woman and first person to serve as governor of South Carolina. Her parents are immigrants from Punjab in India.
Haley was also governor at the time of the 2015 Charleston massacre, in which nine congregations of a historic Black church were killed by a white supremacist assassin. Haley supports the removal of the Confederate flag from the South Carolina capital in the aftermath.
Haley has her opponents. Some in Trump’s orbit have always watched her closely. She first told Sen. Marco Rubio
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Still, if Haley runs, she will immediately be seen as a leading candidate.
Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas)
Cruz was Trump’s runner-up in 2016, and there is little doubt that he could have picked up a second pop for the highest prize.
The 2016 race culminated in an avalanche of insults between the two men. Trump insulted Cruz’s wife and insinuated that his father was in some way involved in the assassination of President Kennedy.
Cruz called Trump “completely amoral”, “a pathological liar” and “a sly coward”, among others. Cruz also famously refused to endorse Trump at the 2016 GOP Congress.
Since then, however, Cruz has turned himself into a powerful supporter of the president – including on Twitter, where the senator in Texas has a particularly belligerent person.
An offer from Cruz 2024 would be built on the same pillars as its initial build, with support from social conservatives essential. Many conservatives have always been skeptical about whether Trump really had a solid ideological foundation. There is no such doubt in Cruz.
Critics of Cruz often say that he is not benevolent, and that he was at the time by Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-Texas) in his Senate re-election race in 2018. But he would be a formidable challenge for his party’s nomination.
Sen. Josh Hawley
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Hawley has already stated that he will support Trump in 2024 if the president is re-elected.
If Trump succeeds, however, many people in the GOP see Hawley well placed to take his populist cloak.
Hawley opted for a more comprehensive employee assistance program during the COVID-19 pandemic. He is generally supportive of Trump’s protectionist trade policies. He also took repeated shots at technology companies, which he said had excessive power.
The Missouri senator is very conservative on a number of other issues, including immigration and abortion.
Hawley is also characterized by his youth. At 40, he is the youngest member of the Senate.
Critics roll their eyes at Hawley’s populist proclamations.
Kevin McDermott, a columnist for The St Louis Post-Dispatch, recently complained that “no one falsifies populist indignation like this self-made enemy of ‘the elite’ who graduates from Stanford and Yale. ”
Still, if the GOP is looking for a message of Trump-like populism carried by a more agreeable messenger, the party could turn to Hawley.
Vice President Pence
Pence has served Trump loyally for four years, only for the president to reportedly become irritated by what he saw as insufficient support for his efforts to overturn the election result.
On December 23, Trump even went so far as to re-tweet a proposal that Pence should somehow refuse to accept election votes from several major states.
Virtually no one expects Pence to accede to the implied request, but it does highlight the complex position for the Vice President towards 2024.
On the one hand, he would be a big name candidate because of the position he now holds. On the other hand, his personal attitude and political style are far from Trump’s.
Pence is likely to compete with rivals like Cruz for the votes of social conservatives. Other senior members of the Trump administration may also seek the nomination – Haley and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
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It is plausible that Pence could win, and the GOP, ahead of Trump, tended to give the nomination to the person considered ‘next in line’. But it is just as plausible that he can be surpassed by more charismatic competitors.
Sen. Tom Cotton
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Cotton, like Cruz and Hawley, is strongly on the party’s conservative wing. In a GOP primary, this is clearly a good thing.
He is about to begin his second term as a senator, after easily defeating a Libertarian opponent in November. No serious Democrat took the trouble to contest the seat.
During the final days of this year’s election campaign, The Associated Press took note of Cotton’s extensive efforts to help GOP candidates in other states, including the early primary battlefields of Iowa and New Hampshire.
“His roster has all the characteristics of someone focused on the White House in 2024,” the AP noted.
Cotton is a veteran of the army who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. He marks conservative subjects on almost all important issues, including abortion and immigration.
However, his view on race has sparked controversy. An uproar follows the publication of a New York Times opinion he wrote in June amid protests over the murder of George Floyd, with the headline ‘Send in the Troops’. In it, Cotton called for “an overwhelming display of violence to disperse, detain and eventually deter offenders”.
As with Cruz, there are real questions about Cotton’s likelihood beyond the conservative base.
Other potential candidates: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, Fox News Host Tucker Carlson
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