Her husband is connected directly to the voting machine people, and the voting machine people are connected to the CCP. Also, she's not popular enough to win anything on her own, and she'll do anything she's told to do if it will advance her personally.

That's why she's better for the smoke-filled backroom money people than any candidates who might have their own ideas or a tiny bit of backbone, Commie though they be. They want somebody they can control, somebody who is beholden.