What does the future hold for Donald Trump? - threadbans in OP

Newsome certainly is a possibility for '28, but not '24.

Funny to see Jill Stein back in the mix, nothing shady about her whatsoever

It depends what your definition of 'well' is. Is she polling well for someone raised as a Sikh, South Asian American female within a largely racist, misogynistic, bible waving party electorate race? Probably. A lot of women like her, within the Republican voters. However, the only hope she has is if Trump gets removed from the race by dropping out, dying or being legally removed...none of which are probable. Even at that, De Santis would most likely win. There's a few on that ticket most likely staying in the race for a position in Donnie T's cabinet, she and Scott come to mind, with Ramaswamy in it to raise his profile for non political purposes and Christie running to get a job in the left of centre media world.

He's popular with the conspiracy theorists, joe rogan listeners, musk fanboys and other cranks. Those tend to go republican. There are some oddballs on the american left such as the tankies and woowoo types that might vote for him too so it's not altogether that simple.

Then again, the audiences to whom he has most been promoted has been that of the right-wing media eco-system. To give a hypothetical example here, let's say Tim Poole or Nick Fuentes or Ben Shapiro or some other unscrupulous cnut like that sings his praises and has him on their show. Their audiences are overwhelmingly Trumpy. That's just the way it is in US media. It's very polarised. The only people who are watching those shows, which are just the modern iteration of US conservative radio, aren't dem voters. Basically, they've been convincing potential Trump voters to vote Kennedy. I'm sure the Young Turks have been doing similarly but I don't think they're anywhere near the mainstream appeal of the rightwing talking heads.

What happened in 2020? We were told the same thing then.

Media desperately trying to make a contest of the primary hyping her but she is barely hitting double digts in the polls.

I seen something in one of the more in-depth breakdowns of polling intentions of the RDS and Trump supporters that few had her as their 2nd choice so even if somehow Trump was to drop dead tomorrow she would still struggle.

She has done well to consolidate the Never Trump old school type Republican voter but what use is that when that base is 15% of the party best case scenario?

She also seems unkeen to take the gloves of when it comes to Trump instead focusing all her attacks on RDS something which Trump won't mind , that's fine if you an eye on the VP slot but won't exactly turn out the voters needed to beat Trump in a primary.

Haley definitely running to be Trump's VP pick next year and then using this run as a testing ground for running for the nomination in 2028.

Why not antony blinken for the dems ? He seems presidential

It will never happen cause 'Merica but Pete Buttigieg would be the person I'd like to see get the top job. Capable, intelligent and has an ability to reach through to the other side.