I was embarrassed for you.
Lack of originality is not a basis for embarassment if you’re accurate.
Hoping for the best regarding the candidate we like the most and doing nothing to change or influence change in such obvious weaknesses is embarrassing.
How can we or Fred turn this perception around?
If it can’t be changed he’ll lose. Like the 300 at Thermopylae we may put up the good fight but suffer a pyric loss.