In political talk, "hijacking" means taking someone else's issues or political identity as your own -- under false or misleading pretenses.
I was happy to see Donald Trump hijack the GOP nomination process, after seeing the bunch of @ssholes they were parading in front of us as candidates.
137 posted on 09/06/2017 4:14:58 PM PDT by Alberta's Child
("I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris." -- President Trump, 6/1/2017)