Either someone really extreme like MTG or Boebert or someone boring and uncharismatic like Larry Hogan.
Larry Hogan would destroy her. Suburbs would run back to the GOP in droves. Sure he probably wouldn’t get the rural turnout Trump did, but it’s not like they’re gonna vote for AOC! She would get McGoverned.
1. Hogan will never be nominated
2. Suburbs won't run back to the GOP in droves, because the GOP would still be the party of Trump
3. The cultists only want their emperor, not some wannabe emperor - traitor who's more like Clinton than their emperor himself.
Hogan would also move to mainstream GOP positions because he's not dumb, he realizes that too. He would certainly not be a Phil Scott / Charles Baker - tier candidate. He would be another Bush / Romney-kind of candidate. But he would never be able to shore up turn-out the way Trump did, and the suburbs won't return. The only reason why Hogan wouldn't be destroyed, is that they would be afraid of a AOC presidency. That's the only reason, although some other people (former GOP's) might even like the change in position from the Democratic Party, and think it's time for change, as she will be the more populist candidate.
Different dynamic, but I think AOC is favoured, and should even hope for someone like Hogan to be the nominee lol (although if he becomes the nominee, it would indicate he has some strengths).
AOC - MTG is much more likely to ever happen.