You are correct on both points. He let the air out of my sails big time. The fact that he endorsed Dave was a secondary, but not enough to counter. I think I was playing it to close to the chest, so bad on me. At least i/we worked through it.

Also correct on the latter. I'm embarrassed to admit I took a bit of pleasure knowing he was wrong about the results.

It was the first time I'd heard him on anything, so no context for how or why he said what he did.