The “Who is running in 2024?” tea leaves thread

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Hawley has apparently been planning to run for president in 2024 for decades now:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/25/josh-hawley-school-yearbook-2024-republican-run

Josh Hawley, the Republican from Missouri who faces calls for expulsion from the Senate over his support of Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn his election defeat, signed a friend’s eighth-grade yearbook “Josh Hawley, president 2024”.

The same yearbook named Hawley and the friend whose yearbook he signed among “future presidents”, the Kansas City Star reported.

What a freaking weirdo

Not compared to his contemporaries. Most people who make credible bids for president have at least imagined the idea much earlier in their lives, and the majority have probably made certain preparations. Biden's been running since before 1984 at the latest and looking at a younger example:

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1119618985316818944

Buttigieg is a weirdo too. It's not the aspiration that's weird, it's picking an exact year and trying to build a resume in time to run for President. Pete obviously wanted to run as soon as he was eligible whereas Hawley expected to build more experience first.

Yeah. Like, Biden's wanted to be President his whole life, but he obviously hasn't always wanted to run and win in the year and under the conditions that he did. Hell, Trump was flirting with the idea of political office as early as the late 1980s but took another quarter-century to actually go through with it.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

It's looking like both senators and Floridas governor are planning on running in 2024 With Carlson and Trump also potential candidates the FL GOP primary could have 5 different candidates from the state competing against each other Rubio Vs Scott vs DeSantis Vs Carlson vs Trump. If Trump runs hed very likely win it without him running id say Desantis would be favored.

I still think DeSantis is a paper tiger but I do have to admit that, as a Trumpian grievance politician who's governed as a relative moderate except--and this is key--on the COVID-derived culture war battles, he's probably much better-positioned than Rubio or Voldemort within the current GOP coalition.