Best case Iowa scenario

[Funtatlaguy]

What do you want to see tonight from a pro Biden standpoint?
I think we want both DeSantis and Haley to remain viable at least through SCarolina. I think it divides the GOP a little more that way.
So I’m hoping tonight goes something like:
Trump 50%
DeSantis 26%
Haley 22%
Others. 4%

[mercuryblues]

1. I don't want to see any of them make the 50% mark.

No clear winner.

[getagrip_already]

2. best case is stinky's "air" of inevitability is pierced....

and people begin to smell the reality that he is vulnerable, weak, and old.

He will still win the nomination, but if he comes out with people smelling the real air, then we will be in good shape.

[JT45242]

3. As long as they are plurality takes all it doesn't matter...

Unless the convention occurs after a criminal conviction, TFG is 100% the nominee


If he is convicted, there may be some billionaire maneuver to replace him. But I would guess only a ten percent chance of that.

[Bucky]

4. It's sickening, but Trump's nomination is our best hope for 2024

Nikki Haley is the Republican best positioned to strike that faux Dubya Bush pose of "G-g-garsh, Mickey, I'm the candidate most likely to heal America's partisan divide" bullshit.

It may not fool you and it sure didn't fool me, but it did manage to fool just barely enough moderate ill-informed voters in 2000 to push GWB over the top (with some help from Rehnquist of course). DeSantis couldn't pull this off, but Nikki Haley is born to play this game.

And strap yourself in, she's a neocon and a union buster. She's the Republicans' best hope, our worst possible opponent, she's a Dick Cheney smart, and just amoral enough to get elected and continue our national drift towards decay and global climate change. Unfortunately she's also the Republican party's best chance of getting rid of Trumpism.

What a crappy century this is turning into

[snowybirdie]

5. I actually

Hope the dumpster wins big and the others drop out. Then maybe media will shut up and stop blasting news of the primsries!

[dalton99a]

6. Hope Tiny D and Birdbrain will stick around awhile

[Funtatlaguy]

7. lol. You know DeSantis hates that nickname. LittleDEnergy.