# The Donald Trump 2024 Campaign Thread (Primary Edition)

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**Created:** [November 15, 2022, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-donald-trump-2024-campaign-thread-primary-edition/974970 "2022-11-15T18:18:30Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 1, 2023, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-donald-trump-2024-campaign-thread-primary-edition/974970/452 "2023-03-01T17:49:54Z")

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> [@Dr\_Paprika](#):
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> If so, the party will be divided.

It doesn’t matter if 4 or 5 people run during the primaries, and divide the Party.

Each of the minor candidates will fall out of the race eventually, after getting 3 or 4 percent of the votes in the primaries. And maybe DeSantis will win 30%. But all that leaves Trump- and only Trump- with the ability to take 51% of the votes at the convention.  
And after the convention, the Republican party will no longer be divided. All the R congressmen, senators and governors will shout their full support of Trump.  
And 70 million voters will join them.

Can the Dems get 71 million? I doubt it.

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