Keep in mind that Manchin or some other NoLabels candidate would only need to take more than, say three percent, to make it a YUGE event. Don't think in terms of whether someone can win or not. Even three percent would be total Rumsfeldian chaos.
Technically, President Donald Trump can run again in 2028 if he were to win in 2024. Not sure he would want to because if he wins in 2024, the deep state will continue to sabotage whatever he does and probably, file more bogus charges against him. At some point, he will probably, just throw in the towel and say, to hell with it.
You have to assume they will engage in massive election cheating on the Democrat side with RINOs aiding and abetting them including, hiding the crime. They already did it on President Donald Trump despite, his huge number of votes. The only thing that counts is who is doing the counting and making up rules on how to count the votes. I am cynical because I have seen the Democrats and RINOs on November 8, 2020, cheat on a massive scale and get away with it! Any fringe candidate like Nikki Haley or Joe Manchin will be a non-factor with the massive cheating going on. Even if they get 3%, the massive cheating will add millions of votes out of thin air.
In addition, the pubs have absolutely no get-out-the-vote plan/strategy whatsoever beyond just saying "we can just wait until the end to show up and vote this time." That's it. That's the whole plan.
Thinning the herd. Next debate is next wed I believe. Interesting that Vivek previously sold about 34 million in stock to finance his campaign but just sold another 32-34 million in the last two days to finance the continuation of his campaign. Yet he knew he did not qualify for the debate at that time. Still investing in his brand I guess. Unless he thinks he is buying a VPship. Don't count on it Vivek but do what you gonna do. More likely he is continuing on his journey to eventually team up with Tucker so he needs to keep his flag flying and viewership up. Vivek will pick up an unexpected number of rogue votes in NH though. I will give him that. Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy and former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie did not qualify in time for the debate after appearing the previous four. The next Republican debate is around the corner. See who qualified, how to watch (msn.com)
This Lloyd Austin scenario is a strange one. Hopefully he did not have a sex change. Probably got treatment for peyronies disease or some pecker-centric issue. Whatever it was, he only made it worse by mishandling it.