“Trying to win the hearts and minds of Democrat voters. It won’t work though because Democrats already have their own candidates and are loyal to a party. Plus , never trust a traitor, even if he/she betrayed your enemy.”
Arlan Spector learned the lesson at the end of his Senate career when he switched parties to give Harry Reid a veto proof majority. The Democrats threw him overboard for a lifelong Democrat in the next election.
Jim Jeffords, switched from Republican to Independent in 2001, after being reelected in 2000 as a Republican. He caucused with the Democrats, giving them a 51 vote majority (the Senate was 50-50 after the 2000 election with VP Dick Cheney the tiebreaker). Jeffords retired in 2006. When he gave his farewell speech on the Senate floor he did not get the traditional Senate sendoff with dozens of colleagues taking the floor to pay tribute. Only one Republican Senator, Chuck Grassley, took the floor to honor Jeffords. Bernie Sanders was elected to replace Jeffords in the Senate.
Democrats have a long tradition of treating turncoat Republicans poorly. Any Republican who believes he or she will benefit from helping Democrats or switching sides is delusional.
And Sun Tzu along with wise Persians knew what’s up long before now. Guess those turncoat Republicans thought they were too good for that old-fashioned advice.