The small size of the prospective 2024 field of Trump challengers may have something to do with the degrading experience of those who battled him in 2016 and have no intention of confronting him again. Trump's 2016 opponents show no interest in a rematch:
FILE Ñ From left: Ben Carson, Sen. Marco Rubio, Donald Trump, Sen, Ted Cruz and Gov. John Kasich at CNNÕs Republican presidential debate at the University of Houston in Texas, Feb. 25, 2016.
That has left Trump as potentially the only Republican candidate in 2024 who has run for president before. The last time an open Republican presidential primary featured just one candidate who had previously sought the office was in 1980. Carson went so far as to say he never wanted to run for president in the first place. “I didn’t particularly want to do it then,” he said. “There were so many pushing me to do it. I said, ‘If people really want me to, I will,’ but it was never anything that I wanted to do. I certainly don’t want to do it now.”
DeSantis, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and several other Republicans are angling to topple Trump, but the expected field will probably fit easily on one debate stage. But Republicans eyeing 2024 appear to see less to gain. They are well aware of Trump’s cutthroat political approach and his impulse to tear down in personal terms anyone he sees as a threat — even if those traits helped win him the undying loyalty of many Republican voters and created a cult of personality that has at times consumed his party.
“Politics is about timing, and I should have run before the time I did,” Pataki said. He explained that he had never considered a 2024 campaign and that most people could plainly see the race was shaping up as a Trump-DeSantis contest. Christie is the only other 2016 candidate who has said he is even considering running again in 2024, although an aide to Rubio said he had not formally ruled it out. Neither man has taken any concrete steps toward building a campaign.
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