Trump-skep­ti­cal Repub­li­cans open­ly hope for 2024 loss: ‘Fork in the road moment’

A seg­ment of Repub­li­cans skep­ti­cal of for­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump are hop­ing, both pub­licly and in pri­vate, that he los­es deci­sive­ly in Novem­ber so the par­ty can move past him.
Most Repub­li­cans, includ­ing for­mer crit­ics like Sen­ate Minor­i­ty Leader Mitch McConnell (R‑KY) and Club for Growth Pres­i­dent Dave McIn­tosh, have pub­licly coa­lesced around Trump despite past mis­giv­ings over his 2020 loss and sub­se­quent efforts to over­turn the elec­tion.
But pri­vate­ly, some are sup­port­ive of Vice Pres­i­dent Kamala Har­ris defeat­ing him, believ­ing it would be a tem­po­rary set­back that brings the par­ty back to its pre-Trump iden­ti­ty.
“Our par­ty has been hijacked by Trump and MAGA since 2016, so I think there’s a feel­ing among some of us that we’d like to move on,” said an aide to a Repub­li­can sen­a­tor, speak­ing on con­di­tion of anonymi­ty to reflect can­did­ly on the mat­ter. 
“We’ve seen what has happ …