so far I don't think a single speech during this was as effective as Michelle Obama was on the first night of the DNC convention.
I though Nikki Haley would have pulled it off by honesty he speech was a big letdown
she says America is not racist and then describes how racist the county has been to her in the past lol.
it was a surprisingly silly speech from someone who is seen as the future of the GOP
Pfft, she's the future of the GOP the same way Marco Rubio was in 2012.
Who will be in top contention for the Republican nomination in 2024 if Trump loses?
At this rate, Trump.
Why do you think so? I wouldn't be surprised if one of his children tried for the nomination, though.
Definitely some member of the Trump family will run, since this convention is making it crystal-clear that the GOP's "ideology" now basically consists in protagonism surrounding them. (On the off-chance that none of them do, there'll be at least conventionally-telegenic fortysomething Trump orbiter like Hawley or Cotton or DeSantis instead.) The reason I'm pessimistic enough to think it might be The Donald himself is that he's already working overtime to delegitimize this election in advance; if he loses, he would be able to claim in 2024 that he was "robbed of his second term" and probably get quite a bit of the GOP primary electorate to believe him.
I just can't see why he'd run again considering he didn't even wanna be President in the first place & now absolutely hates being President. The only reason he's running for re-election right now is because his ego is so over-inflated that he can't fathom quitting, let alone losing, but if he's already lost & out of office, then I can't see there being anything that would still attract him to the job.
This is why I'm convinved Don Jr. will run in 2024.
Trump doesn't actually enjoy being President, but he feels validated by the fact that he was elected and views his impending (for now) defeat as a huge blow against his ego. Voting for Don Jr. would be basically a proxy vote for Trump for GOP voters in the 2024 primary and (possibly) the general.
If Don Jr was somehow able to win in 2024, Trump could basically claim that 2020 was a fluke or a fraud, and that the American people love him and his family. And he wouldn't have to actually have to make the big decisions and take the blame; he can be a powerbroker, much like how Jared Kushner is now. And Trump probably finds that to be a much better position than the one he's in now.
