I fleshed out my reasoning of my opinion on what was possibly the reason for the R actions in the subsequent posts. The first post was a one liner-ish. Incumbency IS different than a race without, but the pre-condition of the referenced lawsuit (results therein) has been known since well before today and is a more important point that I did not spell out in that first short post IMHO. Believe it or not.
Less evil is not what I would call it anyway, not that it matters because the party can do what it wants essentially. Less likely to matter with an incumbent who has shown no overt verbiage that he isn't running is clearly why. And again, what I believe doesn't matter. This isn't about me.
The party knows, logically and my opinion, they are tied to Trump unless he decides, for whatever reason, he doesn't want to run. If only because, again back to the 2016 race loyalty oath, if Trump was ouster-ed, kicked out, by the R's unwillingly he could torpedo the race by running on his own.(IND, Third party, etc)
I don't recall you giving an opinion on the referenced DNC lawsuit? Of course it was on Shaggy IIRC.