The whole thing really didn’t bother me and for the same reasons you point out. Still, I bet a lot of republicans with teenaged daughters/grand daughters nieces etc stayed home today.
The optics of him getting interviewed by a 12 year old girl recently probably didn’t help.
Personally, I doubt the whole groping thing but I don’t really doubt that he was attracted to them and dated some.
The whole thing really didn’t bother me and for the same reasons you point out. Still, I bet a lot of republicans with teenaged daughters/grand daughters nieces etc stayed home today.
What do you expect when people they’ve respected for 30 years like Senator Shelby tell them to elect a Democrat? The average person isn’t able to war game out the consequences of electing Jones.