She said, “I have friends who’ll tell me, ‘I like Ted, but he’s too far to the right.’ But I hear that less and less now.”
So Heidi is confirming that Ted isn’t as conservative as he used to be.
Are you sure it isn't simply that she has fewer and fewer friends? Or, that fewer and fewer people feel comfortable telling her that they like Ted anymore ? :-P
Yes; that statement can be interpreted in so many ways. I took it one way; my sister took it another. Pretty funny.