Even as we look ahead to the new year, we can be assured that the political media focus will be trained, as it has for the last five years, on Donald Trump-his continuing legal and political troubles, the 'reckoning' within the GOP about the former president's role in the party's weak midterm performance and the rise of the potential Trump challengers like Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. But there are a number of other key developments that I'll be watching that could give us more insights into what 2024 could bring (as well as what we really learned from the 2022 midterms).
