I don't think Republicans give a crap about my handicapping their future candidates, but there are 23minutes until my Zoom class and conservative politics is imo more interesting than my own. So if I were a betting lady...

Buy: DeSantis (Trumpy but blended with some shockingly popular governance), Hawley (the baby nat con pick with unimpeachable social con cred), Any Conservative Personality ala Jr/Carlson (get visceral base instincts, have platform, people just like noise), Pence (if Trump wins)

Hold: Haley or Crenshaw (path to gain traction if Biden's elected and there's a push to unify all sectors of the traditional party under a less controversial muh small govt choice, would own libs respectfully), Cruz (he was 2nd last time. gotta acknowledge. whatever.)

Sell: Cotton (black hole of charisma), Pompeo (who? why? who cares?), Scott (Cotton's level of charisma but with more reptilian vibes), Rubio (lol), Sasse (lmao), Ryan (I just hope he does it for the backlash), Any Moderate Governor (let's not pretend this will be a thing)

*Personally* I think the Hawley v Haley divide is the easiest framing of the underlying ideological question, just no guarantee they'll be the avatars picked to fight it out

To ed the thread in a way that'll get EVERYONE to drag me....excited for Dems to nominate Gavin Newsom!