he might have deemed that HRC had pretty nuch a lock-in anyway; furthering that schism might prove to be another *cough* Nadir clusterfuck.

We have the Shock!-hindsight that the Clown Car won the (cough too?) Indianapolis 500 in a Trabant 601 (mayhap via Cthulhu's direct interference?) ...
for a giggle, mere toying with the same old tribe of incorrigible seppuku-seeking homo-saps :-/

(Could be; makes as much sense as anything 'logic' might suggest, eh?)