Trump has a better shot at the Republican nomination than people realise

Many Republicans still don’t believe that Trump really lost the 2020 election in the first place and his opponents are wobbling on a tricky tightrope

Donald Trump is still a demigod to many Republicans who were wary of his in his first run. Picture: AP Photo/Alex Brandon

It’s worth remembering that most Republican voters didn’t back Donald Trump in the race for the party’s nomination in 2016. 

Trump came away with something like 45% of the vote in the Republican primaries; though the field had by then shrunk to just three candidates — Trump, John Kasich, and Ted Cruz — polls showed Trump struggling to hit 50% support among Republicans as late as early April of that year.