Made no sense to me.......but whatever.
Ever since non-NBCs Panama John McCain and The Kenyan duked it out on the country’s biggest stage, exotically-flavored candidates have felt themselves free to further pollute and corrupt the major parties’ POTUS and VPOTUS-nominee selection procedures, the national elections that follow (November), the Electoral College voting process (December), the EC vote-counting process in the U.S. Congress (January), and the executive branch transfer of power on Inauguration Day (later in January).
This was Mutually Assured Destruction, blithely agreed to in 2008 by the two major political patries in the U.S.