Evan McMullin, the guy who nearly managed to claim Utah's electoral votes back in 2016, is running for the Senate as an independent - and that got the Dems to decline to run a candidate at all to make way for him, while Mitt Romney is declining to pick sides between McMullin and Lee. He'll likely lose still, but it's intriguing nonetheless - and suggests that in a hypothetical Trump-Biden-Cheney race in 2024, the Utah Democrats might again throw their full weight behind Cheney.

Yep. Though that's always a tricky proposition and it could backfire in some states - if she can win some states, like Utah, it'd be worth it, but not sure if she could.

Yep. In many ways, better almost anyone than Trump. Though I remember someone on this board, possibly Cannoli, warning that as soon as some other Republican threatened to dethrone Trump, the Democrats would start calling them worse than Trump - take DeSantis, who is in many ways vastly better than Trump, it's true that he'd be more effective and probably accomplish more in terms of conservative priorities, so in that sense at least he'd be worse from a liberal perspective.

True, though Cheney still wouldn't get anywhere near winning in the Republican primary even then, it'd be more annoying to Trump than any real threat. Provided that it's just the two of them and there's no more viable candidate ballsy enough to run against Trump, that is.