It certainly came off as creepy, but he meant that when he’s campaigning for re-election in four years.
“It certainly came off as creepy, but he meant that when he’s campaigning for re-election in four years.”
That doesn’t make it any better.
Maybe; maybe not. It’s telling that, if so, he can’t say so in a manner that doesn’t come off as pedophile creepy. Such vile and obscene notions seem to infect much of what he says.