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They'll face the same consequences whether they step up now, or before early voting.
Presumably, they think early voters are not undecided, and that this is the right timing to have the best impact.
Announcing just a week or two out gives them potential plausible deniability after the fact, less prominence in crowded news cycles now and less repeated points of exposure as a potential surrogate at events or in press. Basically, after the fact if trump wins, they can say it was an isolated, momentary lapse instead of deep commit and then smooth further with typical, "Realize I just felt threatened/pressured by those woke marxists CRTs and f da libz, trump 4 liffffz!" (If you need an example, go see every January 6 traitor crying in court, saying they should not have followed trump's bullshit and their actions we're reprehensible prior to sentencing... then fast forward to when they are released and they are at a Halloween party the next week dressed as Paul Pelosi with a hammer in their skull, showing off their new "stop the steal" tattoo and doing Lee Greenwood karaoke while standing in front of a "make America swastika again" flag)
And all will fairly easily be forgiven on that side, as they always need warm bodies regardless of any morality or integrity. And on the otherside if Harris wins, they get to sleep at night saying "I helped" without really having done or risked anything in response to a prior life of being actively driving or at leeway complicity with the root cause of the problem.
Two things can be true, they can still owe a lifetime of penance for their atrocious past actions (active or passive participation) AND they can start operating on the side of good for the rest of their lives to hopefully, eventually do more good than harm.
What "atrocious past actions" is she responsible for? She's not even a republican.
Nonsense.
You said something stupid. Now you're trying to back it up to avoid admitting it was a poorly considered brain fart. This is the worst part of social and frankly, cowardly. In an anonymous medium like lemmy no one cares if you're right.
It's not cowardly to wait until the moment you'll have the best impact to make a statement like this.
She would've contacted the Harris campaign early on offering to endourse, and they've orchestrated and scheduled this release amongst everything else.