The Republican field representing the 2024 presidential hopefuls is locked in a race for the future. If there was an elephant in the room that night in Milwaukee, he might as well have been fronted by a slew of GOP dinosaurs. The Trump wing of the party has followed its leader’s formula that worked so well in 2016 and not so well since. The Trump victory in 2016 was marked by a notable avoidance of real issues. Hillary was laser-focused on issues and was a proponent of the traditional campaign defining issues that resonated among voters and shaping them to the candidates’ advantage. Trump chose grievance over issues and rode them to victory on a wave of older white voters' anger stoked presumably by their emotional response to the new American demographics that were poised to bend the issues to their own concerns for the future. In 2020, Biden’s victory was fueled by a large coalition of voters a majority of whom were non-white: