By Philip Primeau, Crisis Magazine - If by some chance Donald Trump loses the GOP nomination, he's likely to run as an independent candidate, thus throwing the whole election into even further chaos... Donald J. Trump is running for president. He is running for president whether or not he wins the GOP primary. This is the fundamental truth of 2024. All else is noise... Trump is running for president. He will run with the GOP or against it. The sooner Republicans admit this fact, the sooner they can make the ultimate decision: to risk defeat with Trump, or to accept defeat without him.