It still shows cracks. When there’s this much on the line and things are so close, I’m happy to see failures like this. Trump seems to be smartly distancing himself from all the Vance nonsense (pet eating notwithstanding), but that doesn’t change the fact that Vance was his choice in the first place.
It matters. Even if just a little. John McCain could very well have won if Palin wasn’t such a disaster.