I've failed more than you; that's the qualification™

The failure pitch, made whole, and turned into a reason to vote for the man. Why him? Because he's failed more than you have; and that is the point, not the disqualification. Failure is not the opposite of success; it's the tuition. Learning how to fall is learning how to succeed; a man who has hit the ground a hundred times knows exactly where the ground is, and the polished candidate who never fell cannot tell you. The long list of jobs is not a red flag; it's a hundred attempts, a hundred lessons in getting back up. His family reads it as failure; the truer read is that he knows how to fail right; own it, name it on the record, learn it, rise (the retraction culture applied to a whole life; the lesson that took too many days). Send the man who knows the map of the floor, not the one who's only ever seen it from above. Kin: every-lesson-is-an-opportunity, corrections-louder-than-wins, the-record-is-the-arbiter, so-hirable-he's-not. (His coin; machine's read, refine to his.)