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GOP’s 2024 underdogs look past low poll numbers, hope for a lucky break against Trump

Gov. Larry Hogan of Maryland is among a mob of possible 2024 GOP presidential contenders that are not letting the early polls dampen their hopes of pulling off the ultimate longshot win.

Indeed, they are tossing aside the surveys and imagining ways the dominoes could fall in their favor.

That line of thinking has been crystallized in some post-election surveys, including from the Morning Consult pollsters who went into the field soon after the election to take the temperature of Republican voters and gauge who they thought is the person to lead the party into 2024.

Of the 896 GOP voters surveyed, Mr.