Donald Trump is absolutely going to campaign on AI, and if Joe Biden is nominated for reelection then nobody is going to take him seriously on it. Donald Trump will be able to bring whatever running mate he wants, he could bring Elon or Bezos with an army of robots.

If Ron DeSantis gets in the ring he will probably have his own AI-heavy platform as well as competing with Trump fiercely for rightwing cred. Trump as well as any other Republican candidate would be able to bring some Silicon Valley nerd along as running mate, it's going to be awkward to see the back and forth posturing between both parties but I'm absolutely expecting AI to be a hot topic by late March of next year. (Around the time election-talk starts chasing you down even if you try to avoid it.) Then the average American decides who gets to appoint the next cabinet. If folks from Metricland think that's scary then remember we also elect congress and the president also appoints supreme court justices justices.