The Republicans were then presenting the Democrats as the party who "lost" Russia, so it was not to the Clinton/Gore Administration's advantage to second this by themselves feuding with the Putin administration.
Republikáni tehdy demokraty nazvali stranou, která „ztratila“ Rusko, a Clintonově a Goreově administrativě by tudíž neprospělo, kdyby tento názor dále podporovala konkrétními spory s Putinovou vládou.