Trump's 2 Christo-fascist enablers must think this is tough talking. Pence was bold and brave enough to call Trump "reckless" on Jan.6th. Both trying to climb up that bottom rung for 2024 is fun to watch. Has anyone ever heard a politician say that during/after prayer their God told them not to run? LOL POMPEO: Need leader who doesn't claim 'victimhood'... PENCE: Trump is yesterday... I think we will have better choices in 2024,” Pence said. “I’m very confident that Republican primary voters will choose wisely.” He said that he and his family will gather over the holidays “and we’ll give prayerful consideration to what our role might be in the days ahead.” "
I mean if you're a democrat, the ideal scenario is DeSantis wins the primary and Trump pouts and forms his own MAGAGA party and splits the vote. It's almost enough for the GOP to just let him win the primary, take his chances again in the general, and see what happens. Not to say that Trump has the discipline or anything to start his own party, he can't even start his own social media company because he's too lazy, but I think the problem is no one knows how he will react to losing the GOP primary. The general election is one thing, but he doesn't care about governing, he cares about fund raising. So once he loses the GOP front runner status, he loses that income source that let him finally fix his jet. That might motivate him to try a third party run. Maybe.
Dems don't need such a split in order to "win"... Dems only need Republicans to continue foolishly focusing on persuading voters and turning them out on (s)election day instead of simply focusing on printing/distributing/harvesting/adjudicating as many ballots as possible in their favor.