Immediately after winning the nomination: “I’ve done a lot of research on this, and I’ve spent the past couple weeks talking to Granite Staters all over the state from every party, and I have come to the conclusion — and I want to be definitive on this — the election was not stolen,” Mr. Bolduc said in an interview on Fox News. This comes after a year of forceful insistence that the election was stolen. Right After Primary Win, Bolduc Reverses Support for Election Lies
And now the die hards will call him a sellout. The folks in the middle will know he’s full of crap, and the left never would have voted for him anyway.
This is of course "THE WAY" in American politics, by both parties but particularily the GOP. Its water flowing down-hill, the path of least resistance. Flow right, flow in the middle, flow left, however it is not slope or gravity that determines flow, it what B.S. one can spin to the suckers and get the most votes.
I think it was Nixon as far back as the '60s who said (I'm paraphrasing) that to win elections Republican candidates have to run to the right to win primaries and then tack to the center to win general elections. The difference now is that instead of just taking more conservative positions to win their primaries a significant number of Republican candidate have embraced truly loony positions such as supporting Trump's big lie that he lost in 2020 only because the election was stolen as the result of massive voter fraud and/or supporting a near total ban on abortions frequently premised on the notion that an embryo from the moment of conception is a human being whose life is on par with that of the mother.
“This comes after a year of forceful insistence that the election was stolen.“ Of course it does lol. These clowns continue to play in the faces of the American people
I'm not sure if I'm more bothered by people who say this stuff and don't believe it or more bothered by those who actually believe it. I'm guessing that most politicians and candidates don't actually believe this stuff but think (maybe correctly) that it's what the voters want to hear.