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"Since Trump, if nominated, will be losing the presidency for the second and final time next year (with a consolation prize of spending his final years in prison), his odds of winning another presidential election are a lot closer to never than DeSantis, who is only 45. Also, he doesn't implicate himself in crimes and stupidly expect forbearance like a Democrat, surround himself with morons like Omarosa, Scaramucci, Cohen, Bolton and Fauci and isn't the real life version of Nelson Muntz, so I'd say his odds are materially better."

Well...no.

But let's have some good, clean, curb-stomping fun...

"Ron DeSantis Will Never Be President In 2024"
If Trump is [ epithet'd ] over by the Club for China Growth RINOs who are in league with the Deep State, Trump can go 3rd party.
Ron cannot, because he will want to try again in 2028.
Any party that has made the general election ballot can still swap out the candidate.
You only have to meet the mail-in ballot headlines, and there are no 'sore loser' laws preventing party-swapping in Federal elections.
Given mail-in ballots in a Presidential election year won't be printed anywhere in any state until the last major-party convention affirms their President and VP candidates, Trump could either quietly trojan horse a "MAGA Party" 3rd-party all along under another name, and swap out before, let's say, Easter 2024, when the GOP primary winner will have been decided [Trump, but indulge Ron's conundrum for a brief further moment, for the sake of "legitimate no-bad-names discussion" lol]; or, Trump could simply take over the Libertarian or Alliance or Constitution nomination, having quietly ensured that they had full 50-state ballot representation beforehand.
Trump could then change the name of the American Party or Alliance Party or Constitution Party to the "MAGA Party", as long as he made it before the mail-in ballot printing deadline.
That's it, that is End Game 2024. President Trump either wins the GOP primary and the nomination, or goes 3rd party. And Trump can actually win either scenario. DeSantis can win neither.
Either way, Ron DeSantis campaign goes back in the fridge until 2028.

President Trump has you Ron supporters by the short hairs.

In a thread titled CNN Warns ‘Very Real Possibility’ Trump Could Win It All in 2024, do you doubt for a minute that the Deep State would not hesitate to put Trump back in office if they could get what they wanted from Youngkin, versus running around cleaning up poopy pants for another patently-obvious less than 4 years, so that our military could then fail to keep HeelsUp out of a 2-front war?

Youngkin looks like a President, he projects power, where Ron does not. It is what it is, genetics are what they are -- and never more proven than Ron supporters sui generis.

More to the point -- in 2028, DeSantis will have to run against VP Youngkin or far more likely President Youngkin, and there is no way any GOP donor would spend a stolen nickel on a rogue primary run by Ron, when incumbent Youngkin is already President.

So, again, Ron. DeSantis. Will. Never. Be. President. Of. The. United. States.

That’s a pretty unlikely scenario since Trump’s remaining years as a free man are directly tied to a White House flip and presidential pardon in 2024.

You are correct in that Trump could win a three-way race, but only if he is the GOP nominee and the third party candidate is Joe Manchin or Robert Kennedy. If he is the third party candidate, it would be the equivalent of him voluntarily walking into a prison cell, locking the door and handing the keys to the prison guard. Honestly, I wouldn’t put it past him. He is that stupid.

It would be alternatively hysterical and tragic to watch his supporters go from jubilation at his MAGA Party candidacy to despondency after figuring out they effectively sentenced him to prison for the rest of his life. It would be a poetic ending for the guy who did nothing to protect the J6 protestors before leaving office.