After Trump: 2024 Presidential Predictions

What Conservatives Need, the Likely Field, and What It Will Take to Win

by Rod D. Martin
December 27, 2019

We're starting to have a very interesting potential 2024 field, between Ron DeSantis, Don Jr., and Ted Cruz. DeSantis is of particular interest, in that he's everything conservatives love about Donald Trump and more (including the willingness to fight), but without the vitriol (or the pre-presidential scandal). Cruz will have a massive national base from the outset, eight more years of hard-won wisdom, and will look a lot better on camera than he did in 2016 (thanks to the beard). Don Jr. may not want it, and might not sell, but I wouldn't bet heavily on either of those things.

I think Marco Rubio is going to have a very tough sell in 2024, though I think he'll be very well funded if he wants to be. I think anyone who is either to the left of Marco or squishier than Marco is going to be a nonstarter (though many will try). Lindsey Graham 2.0 is an interesting outlier, because he could appeal to the RINO wing but has done a decent job of pulling in conse…