#1 - The expert with a thick accent and weird facial features from several decades ago who worked with the winning A++ lister with risky sexual behavior pioneered getting ahead of a negative story by dropping a phony story that discredited any future stories. The failed A++ lister’s team did that this cycle creating an X account that supposedly dropped an expose about the behavior of her sidekick towards young men in a previous job. The story was discredited but the real rumors are out there. The failed A++ lister’s team did buy the silence of some of the sidekick’s victims and some live in foreign countries.
#2 - No, it wasn’t your imagination. The current A++ lister really did hate and bear a grudge against his sidekick largely driven by his wife. The dress she wore of a particular color recently was their final comment. It reached the point where some of his staffers were giving intel to the old and new A++ lister to undercut the sidekick.
#3 - The spouse of the old and new A++ lister was supposed to be free after this campaign. That was the deal. She had a contract, money, and property. However, there was a loophole. If the A++lister won again, she had to stick with him for his term. She did not expect him to win so now she is stuck.
#4 - Someday someone should write an expose on the connection between the family of the former A++ lister who very visible this cycle scolding people and the three letter agency. His stepfather met his mother through a university program funded by them. Later, they lived in their stepfather’s home country while the stepfather took part in mass murder sponsored by the US government and connected to the three letter agency. Going further back, his grandfather was a member of the organization that preceded the three letter agency during the biggest conflict of the last century.