While this strategy obviously understands game theory and (sort of) how he got nominated in 2016, it’s clearly not really addressing the root issue.
Yes, Trump will have more trouble if he is only facing one or two competitors. I think we can all agree on that.
But as others in this thread have already noted, 30% of Republicans LOVE him and don’t care about electability, propriety or democracy. The other 70% doesn’t really agree on what they want. Maybe they or tepid or cold on Trump, but many of them won’t vote for a black man, a woman, a Mormon RINO, or will find some fault with any other compromise candidate.
The only way some Romney pick beats Trump is if the 70% of Republicans wake up and get vocal about how Trump is ruining the party and the country, and they just need to put their tax/gun/racism/sexism/abortion fetish aside and pick some horrible Bush-type compromise candidate.
But that’s never going to happen. Having a couple idiots drop out of the race just leaves the vote 55% trump, 24% DeSantis and 21% Mitt’s pick.
While this strategy obviously understands game theory and (sort of) how he got nominated in 2016, it’s clearly not really addressing the root issue.
Yes, Trump will have more trouble if he is only facing one or two competitors. I think we can all agree on that.
But as others in this thread have already noted, 30% of Republicans LOVE him and don’t care about electability, propriety or democracy. The other 70% doesn’t really agree on what they want. Maybe they or tepid or cold on Trump, but many of them won’t vote for a black man, a woman, a Mormon RINO, or will find some fault with any other compromise candidate.
The only way some Romney pick beats Trump is if the 70% of Republicans wake up and get vocal about how Trump is ruining the party and the country, and they just need to put their tax/gun/racism/sexism/abortion fetish aside and pick some horrible Bush-type compromise candidate.
But that’s never going to happen. Having a couple idiots drop out of the race just leaves the vote 55% trump, 24% DeSantis and 21% Mitt’s pick.
No, 30 percent of Americans LOVE him. That’s closer to 60-70 percent of Republicans. He has it in the bag.
I’m not so sure. 30% voted for him. But some portion of that is independents and Republicans who might prefer many options that are not a Democrat.