Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said Sunday that he thinks former Vice President Mike Pence missed a “historic opportunity” when he refused to intervene in the ceremonial counting…
I think he's running to scoop up the Trump voters in the event that Trump is disqualified from running or is otherwise unavailable. If the Trumplicans are forced to abandon ship, he wants to be the obvious next choice.
But you're right about his ultimate goal. I don't believe he thinks he has a good chance to actually win the presidency. If he is the republican nominee, there are going to be an awful lot of racists staying home on election day.
Most of them have also "crossed" trump before. Maybe they could do a ted cruz level of being a little bitch but...
Mostly they are campaigning for 2028. It more or less is the Obama model. He was almost entirely unknown until he gave the DNC keynote in 2004. The party understood he was something special, but that is when The American People fell in love with America's Ex-Boyfriend and it is a big chunk of why he won in 2008.
... Okay, pence and desantis are probably dumb enough to actually be running for the 2024 nominee. But the rest are just getting their names out there.