Perhaps, but there was none.
Conservatives are so diverse they won’t agree on such a candidate.
If there is a new direction for conservatives in the Republican party, the presidential candidate must be selected by a Secondary. The winning Secondary candidate will face the GOPe candidate in the primary
Rand Paul is the wild card. If he’s rejected early enough by the ptb ‘pubs, I wouldn’t mind seeing an effective libertarian party taking elements from both parties. It could win, but it’s the end of the socially conservative issues. I could actually live with that if the feds would stop controlling every aspect of our lives.