Repubs should run a better candidate if they don't want people voting for a third party. Maybe someone who isn't racist, geriatric, suffering from dementia, or an insurrectionist.
"Just run someone we won't call mean names" is an impossible demand, because Democrats will never stop calling conservatives these things.
Not to say that Trump is the best Republicans have, he certainly is not. But the MSM would just say the same thing about the next guy. We're already seeing this with how JD Vance is getting treated.
Ted Cruz, one of my favorite presidential candidates, would never survive the current left wing media landscape. Neither would Vivek Ramaswamy or Rick Santorum, some of my other favorite presidential candidates.
They're not just names, unless you are deliberately ignoring reality.
He's not even a conservative. He just wants to shovel as much money as he can into his own pockets. He's stealing classified documents. He's completely unfit.
And no, this doesn't prove your point. You could have mentioned old school McCain and I wouldn't be thinking you're a terrible person, but the current Republican climate only lets the loudest, most hateful people rise their ranks. There are some stinkers in the Democrat's ranks, but I can't think of a single Republican of note that isn't terrible.
Yeah, I get that this hurts Trump but you can't be running around altering ballots month after month after month, especially less than 100 days before the election.
Too bad, RFK shoulda dropped out sooner or never dropped out at all.