You say that but if there wasn't any merit to a politician's kid being a fuckup the media wouldn't have hammered on Trump's kids so damn much. Aside from that though, there's the Burisma shit, texts, etc that came out of that laptop leak that were also "easily digestible".
Anecdotal, sure, but I recently had a talk with someone who voted Biden, and when I brought up the CRT in schools issue they were caught completely unaware and were horrified at the concept. I'd describe them as a "centrist", and I don't begrudge them for voting D other than the fact that they're completely uninformed, which is what I'd describe "the middle voter" in america as - the uninformed voter block. "Centrists" in this country are fucking blind to politics and it's consequences, they just vote for whatever "feels" right. Talk to enough people who vote and it becomes clear.