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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
In this case it's more of a matter of timing. Make this announcement when you've won? Big whoop, you've won and the votes are in. Make this announcement now? Could cost her enough votes to cost her the election. Even if you agree with the substance, it's hard to agree that the timing is good.
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I don't necessarily disagree with this, we'll have to see how it turns out.
Personally I think there are two factors to something like this:
1) There ARE a contingent of Republican voters who did vote for people like Kinzinger and Cheney and Haley that don't agree with them being voted out or kicked out. Those people are still republican minded from a policy standpoint while not being full Project 25 MAGA. As we've seen in very red states that things like the abortion issue is even unpopular amongst most Republicans. The leaders are disconnected from the people and have sided with a pretty sizeable minority that is being stirred up with hatred and awfulness. But that's really only 25ish% of people max who are true believers in the nonsense. Some people just want corporate taxes cut, and it's sad that's all they care about, but I think those types of republicans can be courted towards Harris if she appears more centrist.
2) I don't think this stops progressive voters from putting Harris on the ballot. I just don't think someone who was going to vote for Harris now won't because she says she'll put a Republican in her cabinet. Anyone like that already isn't voting Harris for Middle East war reasons and frankly, she has very little control over that at the moment and it would be an military intelligence disaster to say she would do anything differently than the current President even if she plans to. (this issue of what she would do differently is probably the biggest reason they should have ran a candidate not part of the current administration, but we're here now.)