How a 2024 announcement would immediately impact Trump and whether it would clear the GOP field

Good luck with that. McCarthy is a weak weak person and will totally lose control over the inmates. It will be a cluster, nothing will be accomplished and Dems will take care of big boy things in the Senate

 

The key is the Dem wins in swing states (Michigan, Pennsylvania, Arizona and Nevada) that Trump needed to steal the 2024 election. Plus Kemp and Raffensberger, who refused to cheat for Trump in 2020, won in Georgia, another swing state.

 

The real question isn't how many candidates that Trump endorsed won, it's how many candidates that he endorsed won in a competitive districts and in swing states. The numbers speak for themselves. In what should have been a wave election for the Republicans comparable to 2010 and 1994, they were barely able to flip the House and couldn't flip the Senate and once again a Congressional election is not analogous to a football game in which there is a definite winner regardless of the score. It may very well be possible for the Democrats to flip the votes of four Republican House members to enact bipartisan legislation while it would be virtually impossible to flip 20 plus.

 

Clearing the field and making it an immediate heads up with Ron would be the worst thing there is for Don. Head to head right now he loses based on the one poll post election… in a muddled field with lots of split votes his hard core supporters might carry him through.

 

I don't disagree that RD is/would be a formidable candidate. But worth noting that Rubio won by over 16 points. Also, the Republicans just got a super-majority in both the state House and Senate. So I do think Florida is pretty red at this point. RD now has a lot more power, and it will be interesting to see what he does with it.