In the nascent jockeying for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024, it’s Donald Trump and everyone else. Or, if we’re leaning into this being a contest, it’s Trump, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and everyone else.
A CNN poll released over the weekend (Feb. 19-20, 2022) drove this home. It asked whether people wanted Trump to be the nominee again, and about half of Republicans said they did. That’s not as high as it used to be, but it would probably be plenty to renominate him, if it held.
Then the pollster asked an open-ended question of the rest: If not Trump, then who? Fully 60% of those who didn’t want Trump…
