As more and more candidates join the running for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, speculation has mounted about their motivations. Do all of them really believe that they could be sitting in the Oval Office by January 2025—or do some have a different destiny in mind?
Multiple insiders have stressed to The Epoch Times that anyone who enters contention imagines themselves winning, even with the perceived incumbent, former President Donald J. Trump, already enjoying a commanding lead in many polls (although his chief rival, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, has outpaced Trump in fundraising).
After all, politicians don’t have small egos.
“In his mind and his consultants’ minds, there’s a pathway,” Trump-aligned consultant Alex Bruesewitz told The Epoch Times about Sen. Tim Scott’s (R-S.C.) 2024 candidacy in a May 25 interview….