Almost, but not quite.
You say the outlook for Hayworth is "not very encouraging."
My relatively minor variation on your theme is that the outlook for J.D. basically is "not the least bit encouraging," or even zero.
In any case, my apology for not having made the point with sufficient clarity.
And an additional thought:
Since Hayworth certainly isn't dumb, the cynical side of me says that if he does get into the race, maybe he's doing so mainly as an audition for a TV or radio job -- à la Huckabee.
Yeah. It was sarcasm so we pretty much agree. Ditto on your last part. I suspect a lot more people do these runs for such reasons.