“The people will never support Ryan Binkley, Doug Burgum, Larry Elder, Tim Scott, Mike Pence, Asa Hutchinson, Chris Christie, Nikki Haley, Perry Johnson, Vivek Ramaswamy or Ron DeSantis.”
I have come to the conclusion the GOP elites prefer losing the White House in 2024 to winning it with Trump as the candidate. Therefore I suspect Asa Hutchison is telegraphing the play we are going to see unfold. When Trump is indicted by a federal prosecutor, the RNC will meet and determine anyone under federal indictment cannot participate in Republican primaries or be nominated as the GOP candidate for POTUS. They may even take the step of formally removing him from the party.
Once Trump is gone from the Republican field it will be a free for all to earn the nomination. That’s why we see so many announced contenders for the GOP nomination. They know the fix is in and Trump will not be the candidate.
As for Trump he can decide to sue the RNC in Federal courts which probably will refuse to hear the case or rule against him. He can also choose to run on a third party ticket. He will have every leftist social justice group, as well as both the DNC and RNC doing everything they can to keep him off the ballot in enough states to prevent him from receiving an Electoral College majority. Likely states will pass laws prohibiting convicted felons from running for office until their sentences are complete. The political uniparty establishment will freeze him out.
On Election Day MAGA voters will have the choice of staying home, thereby ensuring a Democrat landslide for POTUS, both houses of Congress, many governorships, and many state legislatures. With command of the federal government, and possibly 3/4 of the states, the Dems will be in a position to quickly call a convention of states, and rewrite the Constitution.
The alternative for conservative voters will be voting for Trump in the few states where he is on the ballot, knowing he cannot win in the Electoral College, and then supporting GOP candidates in other elections in order to keep Democrats from having supermajorities in Congress and the state legislatures. In that case, the GOP establishment gets what they want. Trump gone forever from politics and most likely sent to prison by a federal court in DC or a state court in New York (Bragg) or Georgia. Plus they will have effectively destroyed the MAGA movement. No other politician on the scene has the personal wealth, drive, and public appeal of Trump to lead the populist MAGA movement. If Conservatives go to the polls, after Trump has been shafted, and vote for RINO candidates in the races below POTUS, the RINO’s will once again have manipulated conservatives into voting for the perceive lesser of two evils instead of candidates representing their interests.
American history shows that every populist movement dies and is coopted by the existing political parties. Asa Hutchison is telling us how they are doing it.
If Trump is not the candidate because our socialist run DOJ indicted him, it had better be DeSantis or I will only vote for Mark Robinson for Governor. I am done with the GOPe especially Pence. It is time to cut off funds, withdraw our votes and kill the GOP. It is a worthless party run by people who disdain us. It is not just Trump they want want to cut off at the knees it is conservatives. The GOP hate MAGA voters. BUT, like all the MAGA folks who make excuses for still watching FOX after being pissed on nightly, there are those insane conservatives who will keep voting GOP knowing they will bend us over every chance they get. (remember the definition of insanity) The GOP and FOXNEWS laugh at the MAGA rubes all the way to the bank.