Opinion: DeSantis 2024?

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(12-16-2022, 02:18 PM)HarleyDog Wrote: Now this will be interesting. The Trump era burns out only when he lets it, and I don't see that happening anytime soon.

I don't either.  Trump is likely to be the same person he's been his whole life until the day he dies, and even then there are going to be people who say he faked his death and he's still going to run for president in 2028, 2032 and so on.  TRUMP/JFK JR 2040.

If I'm DeSantis I assume Trump 2024 would be the last gasp for Trump whether he wins or not.  If DeSantis runs in 2024 he runs the risk of Trump running 3rd party, though he might do that in 2028 too for all we know. 

I could see the left and right both being willing to let Biden and Trump figuratively, and possibly literally expire in 2028 and then move on with new candidates.  If the right wants to get behind DeSantis in 2028 I don't see how him serving his full terms as governor are a strike against him, and the left has some intriguing swing-state-winning options who came to prominence during the 2022 midterms like Mark Kelly, Josh Shaprio, and Raphael Warnock.

I don't particular want 2024 to be Biden vs Trump part 2, but it might require Biden to hand off the baton and DeSantis to willingly engage in a needless fight with someone who can destroy him and I don't see either happening.