Tom Cotton is the frontrunner.
Literally no one knows Tom Cotton and I see no reason for him to stand out from the crowd of obscure senators. How is he so special that everyone seems to hype him up.
Jalawest thinks Cotton is horrible, therefore he needs no further reasoning why he will be the GOP nominee.
Cotton is a popular boogeyman in far-left circles (i.e. "Elect Bernie in 2020 or get Tom Cotton in 2024"), but precisely because he holds such a particularly terrible views, I have a hard time seeing him win a national election, or even the Republican primary: he combines George W. Bush's foreign policy circa 2003 with Trump's stances on racism and immigration and Ted Cruz & Mike Pence's views on gay issues.