>>507132177Yes.
They are cementing power and control over their electorate and ensuring that they won't have any political rivals in the next election.
This is just a job to these people. They have nothing to do with any of this drama, nor do they care. There actions only serve to continue their own political power and funnel even more cash into their own political pockets.
To then this is the best thing that has ever happened to them. If they are successful in their endeavors then they'll have even more power and control then if it never happened, and if they fail then they'll still have more power and control than if it never happened.
If they win they win and if they lose they win just as much as if they had actually won if not more.