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- The 2024 Republican presidential primary is just getting started.
- Haley and Trump are the only official candidates to enter the race, but DeSantis is expected to join.
- "This is gonna be a wild and woolly race," 2016 challenger Ted Cruz told Insider.
Whether saddled with the nickname "Meatball Ron" or something worse, Ron DeSantis better get used to incessant name-calling if he expects to wrest the next GOP presidential nomination from Donald Trump, some of the 2016 casualties said.