re: More important nominee be someone other than Trump--DeSantis possible road to nomination

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Clearly Cheney intends to position herself as the voice of the never Trumpers and stated her goal is to keep Trump from the office of President. This means she is perfectly willing to organize a third party run for somebody to siphon enough votes from Trump if he is the republican nominee to elect a democrat President.

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That's only a viable scenario for those whose grasp of reality is so tenuous that they also believe in the Easter Bunny.

Liz Cheney became toxic last night because she wasn't beaten, she was fricking humiliated. Being beaten by 37.4 points is to be curb-stomped, politically.

She'll be the CNN and/or MSNBC darling for a while, may even drift over to FNC for a bit but her political career is effectively over in Wyoming. She might draw some Never-Trumpers if she tries to run for President, but my guess is her campaign will run out of steam before even reaching the convention (see: Kamala).

DeSantis is strong and stern, but he's not abrasive like Trump. Because of that I think Never-Trumpers will likely either sit out or move to DeSantis as their strong dislike for Trump is primarily his presentation (with other reasons flowing from that foundational dislike). Very few will rally behind Liz The Loser (I'm waiting for Trump to use that one).