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  And there's no way he will tone things down at this point in his life, or learn how to work with others, or even let someone else grab the spotlight.
  He's absolutely going to be in the primaries, being his default worse self, offended at the idea that anyone else would run in 2024 than him, and causing all the chaos to make it happen.
  The two likeliest scenarios I see are either he actually melts down for real like we've never seen before, and has to actually be institutionalized. Or he keeps it together but fails to win a majority in the primary and storms off with his voters.
context: Same. Others in a separate thread said it would ruin our political capital with the world if 30% of a party elected him, and I laughed because that damage is done. The primaries and trump elections say it all- those 30% are here, they’re stupid, and they vote. >
  
  I hope defeat kicks republicans in da ass! >
  
  Trump can take off 30-40% of any Repub ticket. Think about it. >
  
  Craziest part is, if he drops out eventually and endorses someone else, some of his supporters are so diehard that I could still see him pulling in 2-3% of the national popular vote just from write-ins. >
  
  Nah, somebody will drop a conspiracy that DeSantis is actually Robert Kennedy in a skin suit and he’ll step down to be Trump’s VP after winning. And the rubes will gobble it up like yesterday’s gravy >
  
  Only as a third party.  If he's the GOP nominee he technically could win.  It's unlikely, but there are scenarios I can think of in which he would.  And it's a close election, we could have another coup attempt.  I also don't want to spend 2024 in constant anxiety over what I would do if he does get re-elected.
  However, as a third party, he would split the GOP allowing the blue wave that's necessary to force the party to do the kind of reform it needs. >
  
  The Four Year Trainwreck of Tre45on made him into a palpable existential threat to sane voters. He was and is his own worst enemy. If he ran again, the combination of Independents that will never vote (R) again and the Millions of his voters that died from Covid, smoking, alcohol, drugs, stupidity... would leave no doubt that he was a loser. His Worshipful Base will be the hardest hit by all of those causes of death.
  DeSantis may not have the charisma and national recognition of Trump, but he also won't energize the Democratic voters like Trump did and would.