Nothing is over until it’s over, but so far, there’s been little reason not to believe that Trump is going to be the Republican Party’s presidential nominee in 2024. He’s leading in the polls by double digits, and nothing seems to have changed the political headwinds in favor of any of his opponents to be able to make a significant dent in his lead.
Polls showing Trump beating Biden in most of the battleground states that will decide the next election have certainly helped buttress his candidacy, as many voters on the right see him as a target of a partisan Justice Department trying to thwart his return to the White House.
There’s no denying that the nomination is Trump’s to lose, and to that point, you could argue that his strategy of not participating in the debates makes good political sense. But very little of everything else he’s doing reflects that of a candidate who is the runaway frontrunner.
For starters, if Trump saw his winning the nomination as being inevitable, he wouldn’t be wasting time attacking his primary opponents, but instead, he went to extreme lengths to attack Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis before he entered the race, and has continued to do…
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