Donald Trump did in fact “run away with” the 2024 Republican presidential nomination: in the GOP primaries from January 15 to June 4, 2024, he won 2,320 of 2,429 delegates, carried 54 contests, and took about 76% of the popular vote, becoming the presumptive nominee in March and being formally nominated at the RNC on July 15, 2024. (en.wikipedia.org)

The Colorado Supreme Court’s December 19, 2023 decision temporarily disqualifying Trump from that state’s primary ballot under the 14th Amendment was later unanimously reversed by the U.S. Supreme Court on March 4, 2024, keeping him on the ballot. (apnews.com) Nonetheless, contemporaneous strategists and commentators across the spectrum argued that the Colorado disqualification and similar legal actions helped Trump in the GOP primary by reinforcing a “victim” narrative and rallying Republican voters around him, consistent with Chamath’s claim that the move would politically “seal the deal,” even though the precise causal impact can’t be quantified. (foxnews.com)