Trump's chances of winning the 2024 Republican nomination increase with a crowded primary field.

The Republican presidential primary field is growing, causing concern among GOP senators who want to move on from former President Trump. The entry of new candidates, including Mike Pence, Chris Christie, and Glenn Youngkin, has raised fears that anti-Trump Republican primary voters will be divided among too many candidates, allowing Trump to easily win the nomination. Some senators hope that candidates who fail to gain significant traction with voters after a few months will drop out to make it a two- or three-person race. The conventional wisdom among strategists is that any candidate who would defeat Trump in the primary needs to beat him in the early contests.