If he's going against either a Biden that would be turning 82 a few weeks after the election or Harris who was a disaster in the recent primary and brings the usual misogyny baggage to female candidates, is it that far fetched he could beat them?

Moderates are never going to vote for Trump, it’s not going to happen. I know so many conservatives who couldn’t stomach him and flipped for Biden in 2020.

He had enough moderate support to win one election and lost the other by like 40,000 combined votes in 3 states, despite getting screwed over by big tech picking sides (not even getting to the other stuff), and a pandemic ruining his economy

Will his base storm government buildings and kill police officers every time he loses a primary?

Wait, but they did?

Wait, but they did?

One died of a heart attack shortly after but they were not “killed”.

Truth is no one was killed! Shame on the person for dying of weak heart.

One of the rioters was killed.

I really hope Trump endorses Desantis rather than running himself. He’s gonna be 78 and knows there are many Republicans and moderate Democrats that would vote for Desantis but not him.

The Republicans have very little chance unless they win the Rust Belt again so Trump has a better map than DeSantis.

Why do people in the rust belt not like Desantis?

DeSantis apparently is relatively environmental and anti-fracking by Republican standards. Although I think it's more that Trump is great in rust belt than DeSantis is necessarily terrible.

DeSantis probably would have better chance of winning back Georgia and Arizona in addition to securing ones like Texas, Florida, North Carolina. However Georgia and Arizona were only 27 of the 37 seat margin in 2020. So DeSantis would probably need to win a rust belt state, but if he wins Georgia and Arizona while Trump loses them, at least he only needs to win one rust belt state vs probably all of them for Trump.

I have seen some people be very pessimistic about Georgia no matter what Republicans do, though. Due to tax breaks it is has become one of the film/tv centers of the country with the MCU, shows like Walking Dead and Atlanta, etc filming there, and lots of California lefties moving there as a result. Atlanta is also a top 10 metro area making it another Democrat state where the votes in the city are enough to win it. I have heard suggested that instead of playing defense chasing Georgia and Arizona they should instead focus on turning the rust belt permanent Republican as fast as the south turns Democrat.