Hypothetical 2024 GOP primary

[Santander]

Truly the basket of deplorables.

I'm quite sad to say that I may prefer Don Jr in this nightmare scenario.

[President Johnson]

Rafael by pure default. But what an awful bunch.

[Santander]

Rafael by pure default. But what an awful bunch.

Amazing how far we've come since 2016, isn't it?

[scutosaurus]

Junior would probably be the easiest to beat, so him.

[OSR stands with Israel]

DeSantis easily

[bagelman]

I pretty much hate all of them.

[Alcibiades]

They’re all awful in their own ways, so who I would most want to win is who Democrats could most easily beat. To be fair, Scott is really the only one with a good shot of winning the general here. The one who would do worst would probably be Cotton, with most of the weaknesses of Trump and none of the strengths. He is a complete extremist, but unlike Trump who seems half-jokey when he says such things, seeming to be doing it just to trigger the libs, Cotton’s stern demeanour and intelligence makes him appear plain frightening.

[Del Tachi]

DeSantis easily

[HillGoose]

uhhh I'm gonna have to go with Cruz here, dawg

[Lechasseur]

Josh Hawley

[HisGrace]

I guess Pence, but not even sure I'd vote for him in the general.

[SNJ1985]

Hawley, enthusiastically

[Suburbia]

Pence

[Ancestral Republican]

Cruz, but I still wouldn't vote for him against any Democrat, even the corporate opportunists like Bloomberg or Schultz. A few more Republicans I think might run (not that I would vote for any of these guys)

Marco Rubio - still very young and might be attractive to party leaders trying to get Florida back, if indeed it flips to Biden.

Lindsay Graham - may attempt to parlay dedication to Trump into an endorsement, which would be very influential.

Dan Crenshaw - he would draw interest from the party's military worship segment. Would for sure be a VP candidate.

John Kasich - Another swing stater who has significant experience and may try to run on Never-Trump goodwill. Will be on the old side of the spectrum, but is younger than Biden.

Mike Lee - Has religious and constitutional conservative chops like his ally Cruz. Has a libertarian streak which will play well with younger Republicans and corporate donors like the Kochs.

I don't think Don Jr will run, I sadly think he is planning on running for Mayor of NYC which will be a fiasco.

[Dereich]

Scott and Cruz are the only two I'd trust to have and follow their own programs. I guess I default to Rick Scott.

Junior would probably be the easiest to beat, so him.

Did you not learn this lesson last time? That's tempting fate right there.

[America Needs R'hllor]

Let's see:
Cruz- an awful religious right type who no one likes except hardline conservatives (so about half of the base)
Cotton- a rabid racist and neocon, the worst othe Republican Party in basically all aspects
Trump Jr- an annoying mini-white supremacist who'd probably run on QAnon
DeSantis- a racist who can win
Hawley- An atlas-type "says some populist things, hates women and gays " politician, worse than any Democrat on economic issues but I'd still rather not have him in the general election.
Pence- an awful religious right type who slightly more people like
Rick Scott- proved to be quite electable despite being absolutely vile

Seems like Cruz it is. We HAVE come a long way since 2016.

[This user has not been convicted of 34 felonies]

There is not a redeemable soul in this bunch.

[StateBoiler]

We can't automatically rule out a Trump run in 2024 if he loses in 2020. Wouldn't expect it, but it's not a longshot either.

I don't see him removing himself from politics as former presidents tend to (at least in public, the likes of Bush '88, Bush '00, Gore '00, Hillary '08 and '16, and Biden '20, clearly had ex-presidents as backers). Whoever gets his endorsement it's going to be that person versus whoever the rest of the field whittles down to.

My gut feeling at the moment is Nikki Haley. In the event Trump did not accept the nomination from the Party Convention in a month which was thrown out there as a possibility in the press, the only 2 plausible names I could think of to replace him are Pence and Haley, and Haley would be the stronger candidate.

[LAKISYLVANIA]

Josh Hawley

[😥]

Josh Hawley

[Old Man Willow]

Easily Hawley.

[Person Man]

This is probably probably who is running.

I'm voting based on who I would be most comfortable with, not with ironic support. Trump has shown that "ironic support" doesn't work, despite it being irresponsible.

 Ted Cruz- He's basically Rick Scott on steroids. 2.

 Tom Cotton- A racist hawk. He's potentially the most conservative guy here. 6.

 Donald Trump Jr - No. 7.

 Ron DeSantis - He's at least moderate-ish on environmental issues, but he's an incompetent racist.  4.

 Josh Hawley - He's a fundamentalist who might leave things like Obamacare alone, but probably not.  3. If he actually did leave social programs alone and let unions do better, I might be more interested. I just think its talk to sound more reasonable to get people used to living in a country where at the very least, there is always at least one Waco or Portland thing happening and where you potentially need to provide pay stubs to buy alcohol or have to put your name on a sign-in sheet to buy condoms. And he will probably eventually get around to right-to-work, state-owned oil refineries and coal mines, privatized health care and education anyways.

 Mike Pence- He's probably the second most conservative guy and probably the least least intelligent. Everyone else on this list besides Jr. are gifted. I think Pence is just semi-smart like most of us.5.

 Rick Scott - At this point, he's generic R. I'd probably pick him though he's probably not quite as smart as DeSantis, Cotton, Hawley, or Cruz. 1.

[Nightcore Nationalist]

Providing he wins re-election, DeSantis. Very closely followed by Hawley, who is the thought leader of the populist marketskeptic right and closest to my personal views.

[tmthforu94]

Hawley seems like the best of the lot, followed by Scott. I'm hopeful there will be some better choices, though.

[Rat]

Incredible, a field that actually makes me choose Ted Cruz as the least bad option.