Probably for 2 reasons:
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quote "all politicians are corrupt and criminal" so this tactic doesn't land (look at the dem senator from NJ)
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few people know convicted felons but they do know "old and weird" people, so they can better draw personal parallels
Between the vomitous word salad, shitting himself live on air during the debate, and swinging to music for the better part of an hour, it'd take whole minutes to tell he'd had an incident. Precious minutes