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One mainstay of Vice President Kamala Harris’ 2024 presidential campaign was the anti-MAGA sect of Republicans. But her effort to add conservatives to the Democrats’ big tent fell flat. A recent Rolling Stone report by journalist Andrew Perez explored why Harris brought in a smaller percentage of Republicans than President Joe Biden in 2020 and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2016 despite her repeated entreaties. Traditional conservatives like former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyoming) and former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Illinois) were meant to give a permission structure to Republicans unc…