That’s fine. A conservative close friend of mine who always supported Trump just couldn’t do it this time around - “I’m like, it’s him or the Democrat”, there is no ‘moderate’ in the race. She later came back to Earth, but it scared me, and still does.
Sounds like your friend had a temporary case of normalcy bias where she thought “D” or “R”, what’s the difference? She doesn’t understand this is to save the Republic from the communist / marxist project to destroy the USA.