🐘🗳️👀 2024 Republican Presidential Candidates

Who are the four GOPers expected to enter the 2024 primary next week?

The four GOPers expected to enter the 2024 primary next week are former Vice President Mike Pence, former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu, and Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL).

What is the key question for Trump in the 2024 GOP nomination race?

The key question for Trump in the 2024 GOP nomination race is whether he can avoid calling names and better pick his battles, as this is a concern for Republican primary voters who would like to retake the White House by defeating President Joe Biden in 2024. Trump's temperament and style have turned off voters Republicans need, especially suburbanites and college-educated women. The runner-up in most polls of Republican primary voters, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), is explicitly running as a Trump successor who will fight but more carefully pick his battles. How many agree with the Fox News audience that Trump’s pugilism is more of an asset than a liability could determine the course of the Republican primaries. It may decide whether the GOP nomination contest is even competitive.

What are some opinions from right-leaning columnists on potential candidates?

• Hugh Hewitt notes that it's still too early to assess the GOP field, but beating Biden is what matters.
• Marc Thiessen breaks down the GOP primary electorate into three big blocks: "Hard MAGA," "Soft MAGA," and "Not MAGA," and questions how much of the Soft MAGA vote is separable from Trump.
• Every would-be Republican nominee is younger than Biden and far more energetic, with Trump and DeSantis as the front-runners, according to an unnamed columnist. However, it's still too early to make any predictions.

Why is Rudy Giuliani still relevant to GOP's Biden investigations?

Rudy Giuliani is still relevant to GOP's Biden investigations because House Republicans are committed to following him down the same rabbit hole he has been plummeting to the bottom of for years. The fight is specifically over an FD-1023 form, an internal FBI document that details records of interactions with confidential sources. The subpoena that Comer issued covers all such forms, including within any open, closed, or restricted access case files, created or modified in June 2020, containing the term 'Biden,' including all accompanying attachments and documents to those FD-1023 forms. Giuliani threw a series of unverified claims at the DOJ in February 2020, after his fruitless hunt for dirt on Biden in Ukraine had snowballed into his client, former President Donald Trump, being impeached.