sinking ship

When Kent fast bowler Martin McCague, raised in Western Australia, played for England in the early 1990s the Aussie media called him "the rat that joined the sinking ship".

“Sometimes somebody comes in with a plan, and no matter what you do, they are not deviating from what they practiced in the mirror. Trying s— can be embarrassing because sometimes you’re wrong, but you don’t know until you try. And one thing I do believe that Jessica and I have is neither of us is going to allow the other person to look dumb without going down. We will ride the sinking ship together because we respect that someone is trying.”

Those lost at sea or aboard a sinking ship have used them as a last-ditch effort to call for help.

“Rather than focusing on earning the support of hardworking Americans, Trump is more fixated on winning the backing of extremists like Gabbard and RFK Jr — and they’ll do nothing but weigh down his sinking ship of a campaign,” the party's Rapid Response Director Alex Floyd said in a statement.

It remains to be seen how Harris handles these issues on the campaign trail—and whether this episode was an act of wise opportunism for the two progressive stalwarts, or a wrongheaded move to jump aboard a sinking ship.