McCormick got in the race and brought a ton of dark money with him, so reasonable normal person candidates like Jeff Bartos were at a severe disadvantage donor-wise.
Then there was Kathy Barnette, but her appeal was narrow, being entirely about banning abortion.
In another year, where there was no Roe overturn, we probably would have ended up with McCormick thanks to the money advantage. He disqualified himself, though, by embracing no-exception abortion bans.
Oz could have done it, flawed a candidate as he was, but his campaign was bad. I think Oz was the only one who could have been viable, but, he ran a bad campaign. Trump did not have a better choice, of the choices he had.
Trump should have stayed out of it.