Maybe you should have done what most of us did do - just wait for the press conference.... there was nothing concrete to either defend or excoriate until he spoke out. He has now done so and you can put a fork in his political aspirations.
Good advice. He seemed like a stand-up guy, but I waited to hear what happened at the presser.
Something sounded fishy to me and I suspected a mistress, but you never know with these things. I also thought he might have gotten some earth-shattering news like a cancer diagnosis.
I was doing that, only I still was having to fend off an angry lynch mob. As I said, he deserved consideration up until his confessional. Believe me, he let me down more than almost anyone else on FR.