Joe Biden may have very well used his post as vice president to bully the Ukrainian government on behalf of his troubled son Hunter. But as the warped rules of 2019 go, the supposed scandal’s return to the news cycle may actually help secure the Democratic presidential primary for the embattled front-runner.

Biden began his third presidential bid by campaigning for the general election, before ever winning a single vote in a primary. Biden took direct shots at President Trump’s fitness for office and billed himself as the nation’s greatest hope at a return to normalcy. Electability was always Biden’s best bet for selling himself in a primary. Strangely enough, a scandal as banal as Biden using his office to assist Hunter, who failed upwards after a dishonorable discharge from the Navy for cocaine use to a lucrative board appointment to the Ukrainian Burisma Holdings, may most effectively continue the electability argument as he creeps closer to the narrowing Iowa caucuses.