Harris didn't move right! She supported expanding the child tax credit, legalizing marijuana, codifying Roe, etc.
She did campaign with Cheney, but didn't endorse her or promise her a position of power or adopt any of her policy preferences. The whole point was to signal "Trump is so dangerous that even the most conservative leaders are setting aside their disagreements to support me."
He wasted that for 2 years
Willful ignorance of everything passed in 2021-22 (and despite incredibly narrow margins) does not mean it didn't happen.
Ralston's term for Democrats banking early vote in Clark County (Las Vegas). It gives them a buffer to withstand more heavily-Republican turnout on Election Day. It flipped this year, though, with Republicans building their own firewall via high early vote in the rural counties.
Left side is Ralston's early vote analysis through October, right side is his final prediction from earlier today.
On the other hand, many of the people that voted for Bernie only voted for him because they hated Clinton and/or the wider Dem establishment, not because they supported his policies.
I voted for Sanders in the 2016 primary. In hindsight, I think he would have suffered a political wipeout somewhere between Corbyn '19 and McGovern '72. There are shit-tons of oppo that Clinton (and Biden) never used against him, stuff that supporters can explain away in theory but sounds absolutely toxic to swing voters. Combine that with Trump getting the full backing of his right-wing base, corporate America, and a not-insignificant chunk of the more craven Democrats, and it would have been a total disaster.
DON'T || DEAD
ELECT || INSIDE
I think it's less out of fear and more about billionaire wannabe oligarchs tacitly supporting the candidate best aligned with their own interests.
While anything that gets people off Twitter is good, I'm sorely unimpressed by those artists who "had to" to patronize the racist transphobic neo-Nazi hellhole "because my audience is there"... until Musk's policies happened to offend their own personal interests, by requiring training for their AI. Countless models trained on all public images already exist, jumping ship won't prevent their work from being scraped elsewhere, and frankly, any one image or even portfolio will contribute virtually nothing to the result, so quitting in protest is largely symbolic. But so many peoples drew the line at that, and not at Musk making "cis" a slur, or protecting child pornographers, or boosting white supremacist supremacy theories. It's really disappointing to see.
I see this claim so much, and it's bullshit. Harris didn't make a single policy concession to get Cheney on board. And why would she? The entire point of having her endorse was to send the message of "Trump is so dangerous that even people who disagree with me are choosing to support me."