Will They or Will not They? Extra Republicans Rumored to Bounce Into 2024 Presidential Race

The pool of candidates for the 2024 GOP nomination may start to swell up over the subsequent month, that means that former President Donald Trump should combat for his social gathering’s nomination in spite of everything with the intention to face off in opposition to Joe Biden within the normal election. 

Whereas many names together with former Ambassador Nikki Haley, Secretary Mike Pompeo, Vice President Mike Pence, and present Governors Ron DeSantis and Glenn Youngkin have been tossed into the potential area of Republicans, insiders at the moment are including South Carolina Senator Tim Scott and businessman Vivek Ramaswamy into the combo as nicely.

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Tim Scott’s Time to Shine?

In accordance with congressional Reporter Eliza Collins from the Wall Avenue Journal, Senator Scott is “taking steps to run for president.”

Scott made the rounds nationally in the course of the 2022 midterm elections the place he made a collection of endorsements and marketing campaign appearances with Republicans. Whereas not an unusual factor for a well-liked senator or politician to do, it solely provides gasoline to the hearth of hypothesis since now he will even be touring to Iowa, which is the primary voting state for the Republican primaries, in late February.

In accordance with Forbes, Scott “has made key hires for an excellent PAC in assist of his political ambitions, Axios reported final week, and is ready to carry a listening tour beginning this week in celebration Black Historical past Month wherein he’ll promote a message of ‘hope and alternative.’”

Senator Mike Rounds of South Dakota has publicly expressed his assist for a possible Scott presidential marketing campaign. 

“Having Tim get into the race could be very well-received by various members of the Senate, me included,” Sen. Rounds mentioned in an interview with The Hill. “He’s sharp. He’s bought a enterprise background. He’s bought an incredible private story.”

“There’s various us which have principally been encouraging him to a minimum of take into account that sort of run,” he continued. “That is excellent news, we expect, that he’s a minimum of exploring the chance.”

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Who’s Vivek Ramaswamy?

Vivek Ramaswamy is a bestselling writer (“Woke Inc.” and “Nation of Victims”) and entrepreneur who has based a number of corporations within the healthcare sector. The 37-year-old businessman is a primary technology American, along with his mother and father having migrated from India to Ohio the place Ramaswamy was born and raised.

In accordance with Daniel Lippman from Politico, Ramaswamy is presently eyeing a presidential run which appears to be gaining some traction in the direction of an official announcement after he made a go to to Iowa for a talking look final week.

“He [Ramaswamy] is exploring a run for president,” wrote Lippman, “testing, amongst different issues, whether or not his warnings in regards to the risks of ‘wokeism’ and socially-responsible investing — in enterprise vernacular what’s referred to as environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing — has political foreign money with Republican politicians, enterprise leaders and, sure, farmers.”

Lippman continues that Ramaswamy need to “pull off what Donald Trump did in 2016: enter the race with an entrepreneurial spirt, unorthodox concepts, and few expectations, and find yourself growing a significant following that may carry him.” 

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Everybody vs Donald Trump

Former President Donald Trump, the one official 2024 GOP candidate up to now, has held a gentle lead as the general public chief of the GOP since leaving workplace in 2021, and regardless of the contested election outcomes and looming presence of the January 6 Capitol riot, has maintained the place of favored candidate amongst Republicans to face President Joe Biden in 2024.

Nonetheless, whereas different candidates could try and combat for his or her shot on the nomination, most polling signifies this combat might in the end come right down to Trump and DeSantis, ought to DeSantis formally enter the race.

In accordance with the most recent Monmouth College Ballot printed on February 9, “Whereas Trump has gained some floor over the previous two months, he trails DeSantis in a head-to-head contest. On the similar time, both candidate is most well-liked to different well-liked Republican officeholders, suggesting that the race is a two-person contest in most GOP voters’ minds proper now.”

Different potential candidates exterior of Trump (33%) and DeSantis (33%) who acquired mentions by ballot participates included Mike Pence (2%), Nikkie Haley (1%), Ted Cruz (1%), Rand Paul (1%), and Mike Pompeo (1%). 

“Trump and DeSantis are grabbing many of the media consideration,” mentioned Patrick Murray, director of the impartial Monmouth College Polling Institute. “So it isn’t stunning that almost all Republican voters don’t give you any names apart from these two.”