Look at the midterms. There’s a reason democrats dumped millions of dollars of dark money in the R primary to support the trump candidate. It’s who they wanted to face…and it worked. Remember it was supposed to be a Red Wave…almost all trump candidates lost but regular R’s won. His base has got to figure out at some point appealing to the broadest coalition is how you win…not just muh base. NY for instance gained 6 seats, Georgia, Kemp won walking away against media darling Stacy Abraham’s, yet down ballot Herschel walker lost bc those same voters left the ballot blank. There was a district that was an incumbent R and at +20. Trump called him a loser, they put an maga man in, and his candidate got beat in a landslide. So would you rather have a regular R or a democrat? The D in Arizona didn’t even campaign against Keri Lake, yet all polling showed the voters didn’t want a democrat.
Same thing that they did with him in 2016 to boost him and didn’t work and same thing they are doing with him now, for instance they’d rather face him than desantis, bc they know they can’t beat Ron bc he’ll pull independent and disaffected moderate Ds. It’s not going to matter for them now tho either on a presidential race.