Will Trump 2024 Really Happen?

Let’s consider the elephant in the room.

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President Donald Trump gestures while campaigning for Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler on the eve of the run-off election in Dalton, Ga., January 4, 2021.

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Okay, I’ll bite. Will The Donald run again?

The going theory among liberals and conservative NeverTrumpers is that until there is some kind of decisive repudiation of Donald Trump among Republicans at large, the GOP will remain his party. And there is some evidence for that. Trump has dominated every poll of potential Republican nominees for 2024. He’s supposedly told people behind the scenes that if he’s healthy enough, he’ll run. Some Republican leaders have told reporters that this possibility worries them.

Michael Brendan Dougherty

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

Michael Brendan Dougherty is a senior writer at National Review Online.

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