How effective are scandals?

[weixiaobao]

Can you list some notable scandals this cycle for the democratic primary?  And rate them out of 10 in terms of damage?  (Not long term damage but rather the subsequent weeks and months immediately followed the scandal). 

[McGarnagle]

If it's a Trump scandal, it's just another day of the week. His base is almost certainly not going to change their minds about him at this point under any circumstances.

If it's a Democratic scandal, it could be only very mildly damaging to a candidacy, like Obama and Rev. Wright - Obama was able to successfully draw a distinction between his candidacy and Wright's rhetoric, and ended up winning by a wider margin than anyone thought possible a year previously.

It could also be very damaging or fatal to a Democratic candidacy if it's a sexual harassment scandal or blackface scandal. There's a reason nobody mentions Al Franken or Ralph Northam as potential future candidates for president.

[weixiaobao]

If it's a Trump scandal, it's just another day of the week. His base is almost certainly not going to change their minds about him at this point under any circumstances.

I am talking about specific from Klobuchar treating her staffs, to Buttigieg's police scandal, to the wine cave, to Pocahontas.  Even when Sanders staff unionized, some media turned it into a scandal.

[Hammy]

They're as big as whoever's controlling the narrative wants to make them. Which in this case renders Trump doing things like betraying our allies, tossing children in cages, and letting American citizens die from poor disaster response unimportant to voters.