• Baron Von J@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    She was deeply unpopular with Republicans

    Deeply unpopular with MAGA Republicans. In the wake of the insurrection there was a real chance to pull the Republican party out of MAGA voters’ hands and they blew it.

    So what did bringing her, and the other Republicans that the campaign chose to platform, into the tent; what did the campaign get for it?

    I think they wanted to show that it was ok for Republican-leaning voters to abandon Trump and that they (the Harris campaign) welcomed Republicans shifting left (serving on the select committee and supporting Trump’s impeachment was certainly a shift left for an otherwise pro-MAGA politician). They clearly didn’t get anything for it.

    You think platforming her says this thing over here.

    No the Harris/Walz campaign thought that.

    If you can just break down further why you think the Cheney example doesn’t support, I’m interested.

    I don’t disagree with your overall point about platforming Cheney or the Harris campaign shifting right. I just think Cheney lost her primary because she was perceived by the MAGA voters to have shifted left on policy.

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      17 hours ago

      You think platforming her says this thing over here.

      No the Harris/Walz campaign thought that.

      No but like, you have an interpretation of what platforming her says or means. I do too. The campaign also does. So does everyone who reads it as a news headline. I wasn’t specific on what that thing was, just that, we all interpret it as saying “something”.