Don't get me wrong, loved most of what he di or wanted to do. I also believe he treated the MSM exactly as they deserved.
My being torn on him running is not about him not being able to do a great job, if he were Pres today (as he should be) our country would be FAR better off.
That said, the party doesn't need a Civil War leading into the general election. Trump is going to attack DeSantis hard if DeSantis runs (and I believe he will) and he should not go there. DeSantis himself is a GREAT candidate and whether its 2024, 2028 (or both) he's a guy that everyone will get behind, and the way he has run his state should be the model for all of the country.
Trump cannot win if things stay as they are. In fact, no Republican can win if things stay as they are. If Democrats cheated to win in 2020, they will cheat in 2024, only more so because they got away with it for two elections. They have been successful in turning questions about suspicious activity in elections into extremism, with the help of the media. In the meantime more states are allowing mail-in voting, ballot harvesting, early voting, acceptance of late ballots, etc. Cheating is now easy to do and hard to detect. And as long as Democrats control the state houses, there will be no investigations allowed. So how does Trump or any Republican win if Democrats have been cheating?
If they haven't been cheating, then they are better at turning out the vote, or they have more voters. What are Republicans doing to change this? The fact is, the schools have been grooming liberal Democrats for a generation and it is bearing fruit now. Logical argument no longer work on these voters. They will vote for a brain damaged sloth before they will vote for a medical doctor. They will vote for a senile old man over a guy who actually had the country coming back from a horrible economy. You cannot change their minds.
The election results in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Minnesota, and other states indicate those states are more blue than red, some are deep blue now. I am certain a Republican cannot win these states unless he can convince a lot of moderate Dems and independents to change their party preference.
Something has to change between now and 2024 for Trump to win.