If Biden wins, what Republicans run in 2024?

[grizzyboy]

I'm scared of a smarter Trump.

[pdxflyboy]

1. Tom Cotton

[MoonRiver]

11. Lol, that will be easy!

[Generic Brad]

16. With his cheery disposition?

On a scale of 1 to 10 his Rage-O-Meter is permanently dialed in to 13.

Racist. Angry. And mean. What's not to like?

[Golden Raisin]

32. Your description is spot on but 30-40% of the Country

would be just fine with him.

[JHB]

23. Laugh while you can, while it's still laughable

Then consider that by then, he'll be fine with hiring Rick Wilson and Steve Schmidt to make his campaign ads.

[applegrove]

15. Someone was talking him up the other day. It would be Marco Rubio

if the old Republican establishment has its way. Rubio has been the crown prince and protected from votes that would not translate easily to a national presidential election.

[Celerity]

24. +100000

Been saying this for years now.

[LiberalFighter]

45. I would be putting everything he has done against the military out there.

[enough]

2. As my grandmother used to say, sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. NT

[Shermann]

3. Tucker Carlson apparently nt

[First Speaker]

4. Probably one of the Duck Dynasty guys...

...I doubt the GOP "base" wants a "smarter" Trump. The descent to the Snopes family will keep accelerating...

[PTWB]

5. All of them.

The question is... which Democrats will run?

I don’t think Biden wants two terms and I think at that point his age will be an issue.

[dhill926]

6. the desiccated corpse of Ronald Reagan...

[idziak4ever1234]

7. Nikki Haley for sure.

[eissa]

56. That's my fear

God, I’d hate for the republicans to elect the first female POTUS.

[tulipsandroses]

8. Chicken Shit Paul Ryan might come out of hiding over the next few years

My guess is that they will make an attempt to " go back to normal". I don't think they will go back to another Trumper even a smarter Trumper. Its proven to be a colossal failure. The country is moving in another direction. They do want to go back to the covert racism and money grubbing, power hungry, oppression that they were able to pull off under previous republican administrations - the overt racism gets too much push back from the public. Its not gonna work. It gets too many people out to vote. More people voting does not work for republicans. More benign racists will lull people back to being disinterested.

[NewDayOranges]

9. If Biden wins in November, the republican

Senate will have 9 weeks to strip the incoming President of as much power as they possibly can...

Much like the NC and Indiana or Wisconsin legislature stripped incoming Dem Govs of their ability to place appointments in state-owned offices, Biden could be ham-strung in his efforts to get his government up and running on January 20th...

[GulfCoast66]

19. What? The senate does not have that power at all.

Read the constitution. There are tons of areas where congress has given the president too much power. But it takes both houses to change that.

My hope is that Biden will the first President to encourage Congress to remove some of the powers Congress has given the President.

[LiberalFighter]

46. Review how Congress operates.

[DavidDvorkin]

10. Pence, perhaps

Although I don't think he'll get very far.

[redstateblues]

12. Kasich

[Auggie]

14. Excellent guess

[TreasonousBastard]

13. We had one-- Reagan. And we survived. (barely)

[qazplm135]

17. If Trump is still alive, he'll try again

If not, Pence probably, Cruz, Haley, probably a governor or two.

[NanceGreggs]

33. Trump run again?

Not in a million years.

[qazplm135]

36. I wouldn't say that at all

If he thinks people have soured on Biden or he thinks he can grift the Republican party for more money by running again (even in a loss), he'd do it.

[NanceGreggs]

41. On whose ticket?

The Republican PTB might be evil and corrupt - but they're not stupid. After what he's done to their 'brand', they're not about to give him a second shot at destroying it further.

After four years of having to defend his lies, his scandals, his incompetence, I guarantee you there are politically-savvy Republicans who will heave a sigh of relief the minute he's gone.

As for Trump himself, he's going to be embroiled in investigations and legal woes for the next few years. If he's un-electable now, imagine how un-electable he'll be after four years of unrelenting scrutiny.

[qazplm135]

49. what choice do they have?

they didn't want him last time...didn't matter. There's too many Trumpers in the party.

Yeah, there are plenty who will sigh in relief, and just as many who will run right back to him.

[NanceGreggs]

50. Have you seen his poll numbers lately?

Not enough Trump-humpers to re-elect him now - where do you think those numbers would be after all the shit about him keeps hitting the fan over the next four years?

Add to the mix the fact of his obvious deteriorating mental AND physical state. I won't be surprised if four years from now, he's confined to a wheelchair, slobbering on himself while muttering incoherent gibberish about how he's still the "pResident".

[qazplm135]

51. not talking about him winning a general election

talking about him running in the republican primary and having a good chance of winning.

Right now, his numbers among Republicans are still high enough that he'd be a front-runner in 2024.

Again, if alive and yes if he's not literally falling apart.

[NanceGreggs]

52. By the time we get to 2024 ...

... the GOP will have spent four years pretending that Trump never existed - just like they did with Dubya.

[Dream Girl]

18. Marco Rubio, Mitt Romney, John Kasich

[Rebl2]

20. PLEASE

Let’s get through this election first before we start talking about the next okay?

[sarcasmo]

21. Tucker Carlson

[still_one]

22. Putin

[dweller]

25. Never Trumpers

their ads will be like Max Headroom on steroids



✌🏼

[Norbert]

26. Chachi

I said that because I figured the call for his immense acting talents for some reason isn't coming in.

[BGBD]

27. depends

on how Biden does.

If he is popular and thing are good in 2.5 years, Rs who think they have strong prospects will wait for 28 and an empty seat to challenge. If his numbers look like Trumps now, there would be many more challengers.

Haley is the biggest star they will have, but by 2028 she may well have been forgotten or passed by since she doesn't hold any seat now.

[DavidDvorkin]

30. Depends is the current Republican candidate.

[The Polack MSgt]

53. +++

[GulfCoast66]

28. If we run the table this year they are in a bad place.

After 2012 they correctly diagnosed their problem. Moderate. But they are incapable of that. Goldwater warmed the republicans against allowing the religious nuts into the mix and he was correct.

About 25% of Americans identify as republican. By 2024 it may be 22%. They are dying.

We actually need a party who fights against government growth. Of course they will continually lose like republicans did from FDR till Reagan. The racist, Christofacist bandwagon they have been riding since then have the wheels falling off. Even now there are already more of we non-religious than there are evangelicals. And that’s going to keep growing.

I dont see a future for them unless they radically change.

[Stinky The Clown]

29. MD Governor Larry Hogan

He is VERY popular in blue Maryland. He's learned well how to thread the needle. Not a Never Trumper he did, in fact, never endorse him.

He might be doomed before he starts, though. Short, heavy, no neck. Physically, a modern mirror of Fiorello LaGuardia but with less hair and less neck.

[Stinky The Clown]

31. I am hopeful this will turn out like the 1932 election

[Wounded Bear]

34. Mitt and Nicki, for sure...probably Kasich and Cotton.

Might get another clusterfuck like the one that gave us Trump in 16. Can they find some one as fucked up as he is?

The mind boggles.

[Polybius]

55. Romney could run, but he'd be 77

I know Biden is 77, but before him no nominee of a major Party had ever been more than 73. Dole was in 1996, and Reagan was when running for re-election in 1984. Trump also breaks those records, being 74.

Kasich could run, but he's not liked in their Party. Haley could win, but I'd lean no. Don't know enough about Cotton.

[Yavin4]

35. Trump. He won't go away.

You really think that his narcissism will let him just walk away. He'll spend the next 4 years at rallies and tweeting.

[Awsi Dooger]

39. This is the correct answer

Trump will definitely try again and would overwhelm the GOP field, with the possible exception of Haley. But I think others would be scared to run if Trump is in the race. He's going to be as high profile as ever.

[JenniferJuniper]

37. Diamond and Silk? Silk and Diamond?

[In It to Win It]

38. Paul Ryan

[NCjack]

40. Sen. John Thune (R-SD), rerun of R. Reagan.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

42. Who cares?

And speculating this far in advance is pointless.

[MiniMe]

43. Never forget, tRump could run in 2024

[Cicada]

44. Strongest Repub candidates: Haley, Rubio?

But Trump will be toxic so maybe no Trump boot licker can win.

[Generic Brad]

47. Cut taxes, be racist, and thin the herd

That’s what they’ve been doing since Reagan. They are finally out of their sadism closet.

[Polybius]

48. Tucker Carlson runs through the Republican primaries in 2024 with ease

Laugh all you want, they picked Trump in 2016.