Respectfully I could not disagree more
We don’t have to argue. There were polls cobducted. People were far more put off by her basket of irredeemable deplorables comment than by the collapse.
The average voter didn’t study the side of beef video the way you and I did. They accepted the dehydration excuse and moved on.
Having one of two candidates call half the country irredeemable and deplorable went deeper. For whatever reason, voters don’t like it when major candidates write off large swaths of the country. Recall that Romney’s comment about the 37% (or whatever the number was) hurt him badly. People just don’t like that approach.