re: #104 HappyWarrior

It’s a good question to ask who the GOP nominee would be though if Trump couldn’t run. The post Trump GOP has a lot of question marks on it.

Cruz will run in every cycle in which there is no GOP incumbent until the day he dies. I suspect Rubio and Paul will both want to give it another go. Then there are governors like DeSantis, Ducey, and maybe Kim Reynolds in Iowa… hell, Asa Hutchenson is hanging around as governor of Arkansas. They’ve got plenty of potential candidates/nominees.

The question will be whether anyone wants to try and claim the Trump mantle the way so many tried to take the Reagan mantle for a couple of decades. They may be facing the question of what direction the party goes the way the Dems had to in 92, following the losses in 84 and 88.