Another pressure relief tactic. He had Rove in. SH is a fraud.
I do believe that GOP-E pulled something similiar when Romney ran for President. Romney was on fire, had fire in his belly in debates with Obama who appeared all drug out....then all of sudden, Romney becomes timid in last debate, fails to call Obama on many mis-statements and/or to engage him/challenge him. It was a total flip. I do think Romney was paid/offered a bribe or threatened AND threw the election towards Obama.
And now McDaniel...like someone else wrote here, Repubs pimped the blacks/democrats...