By the way, I can’t for the life of me understand what purpose it served Mr. Crab Cake to participate in this unattributed talk with reporters. If talk like this would help him with his potential voters, then he should do it openly. If it wouldn’t help him with his voters, then it does come across as a kind of preemptive whining about how difficult a race he has. Given the nature of his red state, the race would have been tough under any circumstances.