COLUMBIA, S.C. — This state is likely the fourth stop in the 2024 Republican presidential nomination fight. Will any of the candidates actually end their campaigns after the primary here?
The question ordinarily would have little import. Candidates persist in their campaigns and in their White House reveries long after their prospects fade: Their egos won't quit, their advisers see a plausible path to the nomination ahead, their ad buyers and pollsters want the campaign to persist so they will continue to get their fees. Besides, they come to believe — perhaps in calculation, perhaps in desperation — that staying in the race the way that Ronald Reagan did in 1968 and 1976, that John McCain did in 2000, that Mitt Romney and Hillary Rodham Clinton did in 2008, will eventually win them the prize. They all eventually won their party nominations, but only Reagan reached the White House.
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