He’s doing the typical thing - thinks he needs to run to the middle.
In fact, in leftist states like MA, the middle-of-the-road Republicans get devoured first.
This has been proved over and over and over again. It is a basic truism. Yet politicians continue to cower from the Democrat "mainstream" newsrooms as if those institutions aren't dying, as if those institutions still call all the shots.
It is ironic that those scumbag newsrooms still have whatever power they have left precisely BECAUSE some Republicans continue to run scared from them. But that phenomenom, too, is dying as Republicans wake up to the power of the 'new' media of talk radio and the internet.