This is one fascinating situation we have here. It is almost out of a novel, if you can step back for a minute. A biracial guy whose mother was a white girl from Kansas, and father Kenya, spending time in Kansas raised by white grandparents....but liberal grandparents. VS a white woman who was first lady VS the ancestor of not 1, but 2 high ranking admirals, who felt like he had to live up to quite a high standard and also became a POW in dramatic fashion. If this was written in the 1970s it would seem like science fiction. Throw in a Mormon, an Actor, a Governor from the same tiny town as a previous President, whose wife happens to be running for President, a nutjob gynocologist, a trial lawyer with great hair and the Mayor of New York who dressed in drag (but only for art). Seriously, this would get laughed out of any script meeting.
And you did forget a few other 'characters' (a senator who was his party's VP candidate endorsing the other party's candidate, the other senator from the home state who is a DO NOTHING who was in the Senate because of his name, a senator from the SMALLEST state and a retired governor from the LARGEST state plus a moron who distoryed the Covair.)
I’m completely disoriented by this entire ugly spectacle.
Trying to assimilate it all...we went through some very tough times while I was growing up in the 60’s...this has the potential to be worse. We’ll see.