Trump is floating a third party run if he fails to win the Republican nomination.
Former president Donald Trump has approvingly shared an article on his Truth Social account which argues that he should mount a third-party bid for the presidency if Republicans fail to award him the GOP nomination in the upcoming 2024 election.
On Wednesday, Mr Trump, who last month declared himself a candidate in the 2024 Republican primary, shared an article in the right-wing journal American Greatness on his Truth Social page. The article compares his theoretical third-party run to the 1912 candidacy of Theodore Roosevelt, whose campaign on the “Bull Moose” or “Progressive” party line split the GOP vote and led to William Howard Taft’s defeat at the hands of Woodrow Wilson.
The author of the editorial, Dan Glernter, writes that the inevitable consequence of a Trump third-party bid would be to hand the 2024 election to the Democratic candidate. Mr Glernter suggests that the result would be justifiable as a punishment for the GOP’s rejection of Mr Trump should he lose the party’s nomination to another candidate.
"The RNC can pretend Trump isn’t loved by the base anymore, that he doesn’t have packed rallies everywhere he goes. But I’m not buying it: Talk to Republican voters anywhere outside the Beltway, and it is obvious that he is admired and even loved by those who consider themselves 'ordinary' Americans,” Mr Glernter wrote, adding that he has “no intention of supporting a Republican Party that manifestly contravenes the desires of its voters”.
He said the same in 2016 to fear GOP elites. If he loses the nomination, I don't think he'll run 3rd party. He either tries to sabotage DeSantis in one way or another, he makes some half-hearted endorsement in exchange for a pardon.
Keep in mind that even without a promise of a pardon, Trump would be legally more negatively effected if the Democrats win. The reason for this is, the vast majority of cases usually end up some kinda of plea bargins and the sentence could be very very different depending on which type of plea deal is negotiated.
Secondly even if he is taken to trial and convicted, he 100% would not be sent to any of the prisons we already have given that regular prison guards would not have any of the security clearance needed to guard a former president. It is very likely he would be sent to some place outside the prison system to serve his sentence: Could be a former military base or house arrest at one of his properties which then is fenced off.
Im sure Trump would rather do a sentence at a fenced off Mar-A-Lago or Fenced off Bedminister than some empty military base.
