It certainly takes the heat and spotlight off the candidates that they really love, to wit: Clinton and Sanders.
Thats it exactly.
McCain couldn’t beat George Bush in 2000, and either couldn’t or wouldn’t beat Obama in 2008.
His tenure in the Senate has been that of an obnoxious gadfly. 100 years from now he’ll only be a footnote in whatever media future students use to peruse ancient and obscure political data.
So why are people so fixated on this and allowing themselves to be drawn into debate on what is a stupid, irrelevant and distracting topic give the real issues out there?