Sidelining her for the last 8 years looks like a ruse to reproduce Kretschmann's success in The Länd and claim the wealthy hybrid SUV driving, virtue signaling demographic. Now Claudia is out of the bag and they're out to rename Christmas to 'Winter Holidays' and put 'Wilhelm II (he/him)' into history books.
Very good speech think i posted about it when he first made it a couple of weeks ago, let's see how he does in the debates, but i think his views are too extreme to stand a chance.