Nikki Haley

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is expected to formally launch his presidential campaign next week, has tried to cast the Republican primary race as a two-man contest between himself and former President Donald Trump — a sentiment backed by national polling that suggests DeSantis is an underdog but the only candidate with double digit numbers consistently against the former president.

But according to Rolling Stone, other Republican presidential hopefuls aren't interested in bowing out to let DeSantis face Trump alone.

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley on Sunday declined to criticize her opponent, Donald Trump, after he was found liable for sexually abusing writer E. Jean Carroll.

Haley was asked about the verdict during an interview on CBS's Face The Nation.

The race for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination officially kicked off on November 15th, 2022 when former President Donald Trump declared his candidacy for the White House. Trump was joined by three others — ex-South Carolina governor and United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, and ex-Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson — throughout the first few months of 2023.

Yet there are numerous additional potential hopefuls such as former Vice President Mike Pence, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, and New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu, who like Hutchinson believe that they can mount formidable counter-campaigns to dethrone Trump as the defacto GOP frontrunner and defeat incumbent Democratic President Joe Biden in the general election.

The 2024 GOP presidential field continues to grow. Although former President Donald Trump remains the clear frontrunner, he has his share of challengers — including Nikki Haley (former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and ex-governor of South Carolina), former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, and radio host Larry Elder. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis appears to be gearing up for a presidential run, and Sen. Tim Scott (R-South Carolina) launched a presidential exploratory committee in April.

Another longshot GOP presidential candidate is far-right 37-year-old tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, who has been drawing headlines by calling for the United States to raise its national voting age from 18 to 25 — a move that critics say is designed to hurt Democrats, as the GOP's policies are generally unpopular among Generation Z. But Ramaswamy has many other extreme positions as well.

Former President Donald Trump's presidential rivals ought to be capitalizing on the verdict holding him liable for $5 million over sexual abuse and defamation in the E. Jean Carroll civil rape trial, wrote MSNBC columnist Michael A. Cohen on Wednesday — not only because it's the right thing to do, but because it should be beneficial to them politically.

Instead, he wrote, in a display of "new levels of gutlessness," most of them are downplaying or dodging the issue, too afraid of angering the primary electorate that still supports the former president.

Vivek Ramaswamy has emerged from obscurity as one of early surprises of the 2024 Republican race.

The biotech executive has risen in the polls since launching his longshot candidacy earlier this year and is now within striking distance of former Vice President Mike Pence and former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley.

Members of former President Donald Trump's inner circle are turning on each other as the group that had been a unified team in the 2020 election faces defections to the soon-to-be-declared campaign of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, reported The Daily Beast on Friday.

"When a former top communications staffer for Donald Trump announced in March that he was joining a super PAC supporting Gov. Ron DeSantis’ likely presidential campaign, the news lit up Republican political circles," reported Zachary Petrizzo and Jake Lahut.

Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was schooled Friday on the ability of a “mentally incompetent” man to “mastermind a criminal empire."

‘Someone, please tell Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene that President Joe Biden can't be mentally sound enough to run an international cabal of insidious elites while also being completely senile," The Insider wrote.

The future of the Republican Party rests in the hands of six super-rich megadonors, Salon reported Wednesday.

With billionaires – including Peter Thiel – already pulling their vast wealth out of the coffers of GOP candidates, those that are still willing to bankroll campaigns have huge sway in the direction the party goes, the report said.

For several weeks, Republicans entertained the idea of moving on from Donald Trump to someone else as their party leader. There was speculation about Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), announcements from former Gov. Nikki Haley (R-SC), and impending rumors about Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL).

But after DeSantis traveled the country and picked a fight with Disney, polling numbers show he's losing ground before even announcing the campaign. Meanwhile, despite an indictment and possible charges on the horizon from the special counsel and in Fulton County, Georgia, GOP support is coalescing behind Trump.

Former President Donald Trump has threatened to blow off Republican primary debates for the 2024 election, a move that could theoretically crash the viewership of the debates and effectively deny a meaningful platform to candidates who want to challenge him, like Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley.

But it didn't have to be this way, argued MSNBC's Ja'han Jones on Monday — and the Republican Party's own decisions allowed it to happen, chiefly by allowing Trump to skip several debates in 2016 without any real consequences.