Uh-huh, riiiiiiiiiight, she was a lifelong Republican.
She was never a Republican to begin with....
We see this BS every cycle...to lure the weak ones away from the herd.
This bit is one of their favorites.. I vaguely remember (I was a just a lad, I don’t know why he was running ads in Illinois which was quite safe for him, maybe it was intended for NW Indiana) a Clinton 1996 commercial where a woman and her daughter both “lifelong Republicans” were voting straight democrat because Dole opposed abortion “even in cases of rape and incest!”. Pssshaw.