JBE as the Dem nominee vs. incumbent DeSantis in a booming economy? The NE completely bails on him, but he wins a number of Southern states that are majority-minority or nearly so and only a small SocCon crossover vote is needed to flip them?
CA and TX would both be within 5 and JBE loses some Bay Area counties that have been Dem since 1992.
This. A few solidly Democratic states and southern protest votes for the Democrat, probably someone like JBE against Ron DeSantis. Maybe DeSantis is ultra socially liberal and fiscally conservative, while Edwards runs a crossover ticket with Jon Huntsman.