VP campaign launches 'Republicans for Harris' in push to win over GOP voters put off by Trump

He can’t talk to Harris unless his wife is with him though.

substantiate your claim.

A lot of people have a political party woven into their identity. It's hard for them to accept that their party is no longer aligned with their views. If they still identify as Republicans but oppose Trump, they might just avoid confronting the cognitive dissonance by staying home or writing in a candidate for president. Plenty of others will pinch their nose and vote Trump because they just can't escape seeing it as R vs D.

By appealing to them as Republicans, the Harris campaign is able to basically say that it's ok, you don't have to choose between being a Republican and voting against the insurrectionist would-be dictator.

Yeah, that’s what it’s become. A lot of people who voted for Trump the first time won’t do it again, because they thought the warnings and predictions were exaggerated. Oops.

Now, we’ve got a Republican Party that’s painted itself into a corner, because they let themselves become overrun by fascists. Former Republicans need to come to terms with that.

Just give em the benefit of the doubt that they are really just conservatives, who may be misguided, but who are generally still operating in good faith, unlike the Trumpists simply looking to seize power and abuse it.

I always wonder - these "level headed conservatives" - voted for Trump anyhow right? Were they frantically writing letters to their representatives asking them to stop turning their party into a racist authoritarian laughingstock these past few years?

Nah. I'll die of old age before I could be convinced to trust a Republican, and I will never again miss any election, from local on up, to ensure that I vote for anyone, anyone at all, who isn't a Republican.

Those people probably aren't registered to a political party.

Nah, with how over saturated all news is with the latest scandals and political nonevents nowadays, the only ones blissfully ignorant purposefully avoid politics entirely

People so averse aren't likely to vote, especially not if they live in one of the areas rife with voter suppression hurdles.

I'm not saying that the examples for your point don't exist, but it feels like every time they do this it bites them in the ass super hard. These moves alienate people and are a great way to kill energy on the left. Unless we're just saying that left-most voters don't matter again.

How ironic would it be if these last eight years leads to massive governmental reform and a renewed interest in checks and balances. He would have drained the swamp like he claimed but by being such a ridiculously terrible president and exposing for all to see just how corrupt and morally bereft the modern repugnicunt party is.

Democrats fall in love, Repugnicunts fall in line.

He knew where his mealticket sits because he sure as fuck doesn't have any other skills and is probably unemployable in a normal job.

Wait until it's revealed that this is all a part of his master plan. Becomes VP, assassinates Harris, calls it an official act, announces America's new name, New Canaan, a Mormon theocracy.

Exactly half of why I'd be OK with it. We need better humor in dark times.

Thanks. My brain wants coffee.

The problem is that the Democrats get so obsessed with chasing, "moderate," Republicans that they lose their own base to low enthusiasm and low turnout. Remember what Chuck Schumer said:

“For every blue-collar Democrat we lose in western Pennsylvania, we will pick up two moderate Republicans in the suburbs in Philadelphia, and you can repeat that in Ohio and Illinois and Wisconsin.”

He said that in 2016, and predicted that not only would Hillary Clinton win, but that the Democrats would retake the Senate. Turns out that was a spectacularly bad prediction. The candidate swap has generated a lot of enthusiasm for Kamala among the Democratic base. They shouldn't squander it trying to appeal to conservatives.

They can do that without shitting on their own.

They commit social murder daily, so yes, they indirectly want us dead while allowing DoE to lower its standards. There's a reason the median reading and comprehension level of Americans is 6th grade (11-12 yo children) and our literacy levels are below many other countries considered 3rd world.