Newsmax Host Lidia Curanaj Makes Startling Political Confession And Apologizes

Newsmax host Lidia Curanaj admitted to her right-wing audience Sunday that she once voted for ex-President Barack Obama, and said she was “sorry.” (Watch the video below.)

The surprising confession emerged in a conversation with former GOP candidate Larry Elder. Curanaj accused Democratic nominee Kamala Harris of policy reversals to the point of deception.

“It’s not flip-flops. It’s not like, say, JD Vance, how he changed his mind about President Trump,” Curanaj said. “I myself even changed my mind about President Trump.”

“I’m going to scare people a little bit,” she added ominously. “One of my first times I ever voted, I voted for Barack Obama.”

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She immediately went into apology mode.

“Clearly I didn’t vote for him the second time,” she said of the two-term Democrat. “I was young, impressionable. I didn’t know any