So you’ve got these people eager to support candidates, but no candidates for them to support.

This is delusional. Majority of voters don’t think about this nonsense at all.

https://www.npr.org/2024/11/21/nx-s1-5198616/2024-presidential-election-results-republican-shift

For example, in Maricopa County, Ariz., home to Phoenix, Harris got roughly 61,000 fewer votes than Biden in 2020. Trump, on the other hand, gained about 56,000, for a 117,000-vote shift in just one county.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/us/democrats-ipsos-poll-abortion-lgbt.html

In a broad sense, the poll, which surveyed a representative sample of 2,128 adults nationwide, found that Americans think the Republican Party is more in sync with the mood of the country. The issues that people said mattered most to Republicans were also, for the most part, the issues that mattered to them: immigration, the economy, inflation and taxes.