I said a year ago that Trump becomes the “presumptive R nominee” the moment he declared.
Trump should spend all his time fixing election fraud and not worrying about these other minor candidates.
How does Trump “fix” election fraud, when he’s a private citizen and has no authority over anyone?
Trump commissioned $400M worth of voter fraud in 2020 under the auspices of COVID relief. The guy who signed his own electoral death warrant won’t be fixing anything since if he is nominated again, we might as well start candidate shopping for 2028.
Trump can do nothing to fix voter fraud in the swing states. Trump endorsed a lousy candidate in PA last year (Mastriano), who went down in flames, and so there is a detestable Democrat governor in place who will ensure nothing changes in Philly.
Additionally, MI, WI and AZ have similar Democrat goons as governors who will protect the voting apparatus in Detroit, Milwaukee and Maricopa County, respectively. There’s nothing Trump can do about that except whine.
A non-Trump nominee could conceivably recapture the suburban independents in those states that abandoned Trump in 2020 and offset the fraud machine. But those voters are out of Trump’s reach.
Actually, Ronna McDaniel should be working with R governors in the states to do this, it's a state issue.