Sometimes you have to build a coalition of leveraged politicians who can win versus pure conservatives who won’t ever win or vote.
BINGO! Playing the long game.
If you are fighting for anything less than freedom, you are never winning.
Do we know that the proposed “conservatives” are? In addition, DJT is not gonna support someone who cannot win. If the “conservative” raves on and on about stopping all abortion, no exceptions, he is not viable in any position. Presumably, DJT vetted the candidates and did not go for ones who cannot win.