What’s going on right now is the same thing that goes on every primary.... though rarely is an open primary so COMPLETELY dominated so early by 1 candidate.
What you have is folks who, whatever reason are looking for someone other than the dominant player, bounce from one person to another.. largely these folks they bounce to are fairly unknowns, and those looking tend to PROJECT what they want to see onto these unknowns, and then through the process they get a real look at them and decide, nope, next and move one to another one, where the same outcome usually happens.
Desantis was far more popular before folks actually got a good look at him, now, the more he’s seen the lower he polls, because those backing him are realizing he isn’t what they projected onto him... Ramaswamy has gotten gains by those folks projecting onto him things that just aren’t there, based on a few soundbites etc, and now after tonight that they have actually seen him, I’d suspect him to quickly flounder as well...
This will continue for a while, though this cycle I don’t think it will last too long.. while the primary won’t likely “TECHNICALLY” be over, by March 5th, (12th at the latest) any lingering delusion that Trump is not going to be the nominee will be put to bed.. oh sure there will be some bitter folks who will still try to claim some crazy mathematical path exists for the others, but effectively it will be done.
Trump will almost certainly clean sweep every single state up to that point by multiple double digits above his closest competitors.... Then from March on, it will basically be the establishment trying to destroy Trump and Trump lambasting whoever the Dem candidate is...
By the time of the convention in July, the GOP candidate will have been effectively decided for more than 4 months.. and the lines will be well defined with the squawking nevertrump/establishment/uniparty/globalists ranting and raving as their heads explode, while the rest of the folks will have rallied.
The real drama in this campaign isn’t around Trump, as much as the establishments wants you to believe it is, the real drama is going to be around the D’s.
They can’t hide the fact Biden is a dud, so they either have to get rid of him somehow, and figure out who else should run, or try to prop up a man who doesn’t even know his name and has no pandemic as an excuse to keep hidden.
So, what are they going to do?? They are the ones who really have the bigger problem on their hands.
And that’s not even getting into whether or not a third party candidate decides to jump in...
Talk about counting your chickens. The first state won’t even vote for about 6 more months, and some of the biggest states are threatening to not even allow Trump on the ballot. I don’t agree with anyone ever being banned from a state’s ballots, but that is where we are being led. Down the drain, by someone who has no chance of wining the general election, anyway.