Tara Setmayer: ‘Vanity Candidates’ Will Hand GOP Nomination to Trump If They Refuse to Consolidate Behind One Person

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SETMAYER: “At this point, it’s tough to say because all of these people really do not have a lane, specifically. And the little bit of the lane of Republican moderates, we call it the ‘Bannon Line’ at the Lincoln Project, that 7-11 percent now of Republicans who do not want a Donald Trump and are looking for something else. They don’t want Trump Lite, they don’t want a Diet Coke version of Trump, like a DeSantis, those folks are going to get divvied up by who? Chris Christie, Nikki Haley, Tim Scott? They’re all going to have — there’s going to be a plurality, which is what happened in 2016. So, all of these vanity candidates that are out there are simply going to hand this right back to Trump again, because none of them are willing to get out and consolidate behind one person. I find Chris Christie’s entrance into the race the most interesting because seeing them on a debate stage, that could be something to watch. But Chris Christie is incredibly unpopular with the Republican primary voters. So, who’s voting for him, and in what states early enough? What’s his path? I don’t see it.”

(Via RealClearPolitics)