Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis know very well that the Republican Party will stick with former president Donald Trump because without him and his base, the Party would become a junior party or worse, splinter into two junior parties one formed by the Trumpers and another of rudderless undecisive Republicans who just can’t stand Donald Trump but are powerless to wrest the Party from the Trumpers.

So, they wait, ostentatiously supporting Trump but looking up to Heaven every night to pray, fervently, that he would be convicted or at least disqualified for the presidential run, making them the only two viable Republicans vying for being the Republican presidential nominee.

Is it statesmanship? Could either one of them lead?