No, just the rabble didn't know.
Craig has appeared innumerable times over the years defending conservative positions. Anyone really paying attentions to politics and not just the scandal au jour knows Craig.
That’s what “no one” means. It doesn’t literally mean no one. It means everyone except fans of his area of experience (politics, in this case). How many voters really pay attention to politics. FR would have a couple of million members if they did.
And he was on the board of the NRA...which, plus he is a Senator from my state, is why this entire affair infuriates me. Craig has never been a very influential Senator, but has most always been reliably conservative; the noteable exception being his "stance" on the screwed-up immigration reform bill. I now wonder if he was being blackmailed into supporting it?