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If successful, he’d be the GOP nominee for three cycles running.

But the response to his announcement offered new hints that he might not be as successful as he hopes to be.

Yes, a number of elected officials and prominent individuals quickly lined up to support him, a show of strength fairly unusual for someone making an announcement so early and with no other official candidates in the race. A number of former allies and donors, though, took the opportunity to indicate that they were ready to move on to someone else.