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It takes a ton of money to even try, if you fail you often can't raise that amount again or are out of favours to call on.
Well, McCain died. So he can't show up. That happens sometimes. A more serious note is they show up as long as they have enough support from various sources. The only people attending are the people with a lot hinging on the party, even if they aren't a major nominee. The reason it SoTs itself is because things change, rapidly.
He wasn't dead in 2016. None of them were
Oof, what really happened was he opposed Donald Trump. So thats why he probably wasn't there.
they're still involved; they're either working from behind the scene are have taken less public role, like in gingrinch's case, to indulge red maga's obsession pro anti-establishment changes.
i think they're onto something because fogey old bastards like me have a tough time forgiving the painful damage that biden et al. caused in our lives and having candidates that were not around to do those things in 1989, 1993, 1996, 2003, 2005, 2008 and 2012 would make it a lot easier to vote for them.
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