Constituencies Trump Lanes in 2024

Everyone who talks politics on TV and radio has embraced the artificial construct of “lanes” for candidates. Candidates fight for the foreign policy lane or the gubernatorial lane or the fiscal conservative lane or the moderate lane. Each candidate is presumed to have a lane. It gets rather annoying to talk about lanes, though, when, in reality, some candidates can invent their own lanes, carve out new paths, and open new doors.

As Nikki Haley gets set to become the second Republican to officially declare for 2024 and Tim Scott revs up, too, we should consider the landscape for the GOP moving forward. Forget the media-constructed lanes — here’s what you need to know and what really matters.