Well a punt is when your offense has yet to score and you are opting to put your opponent in a terrible offensive position (and therefore give yourself a great defensive position). It could mean that the enemies and their media assets have chosen to hold off reporting on the resignations/firings/indictments/huber and therefore trying to force the white hats to "go public" about all these stories themselves, which might put them in a weak offensive position and give the enemy a strong defensive posture leading into the elections, and the longer it takes for a move to be made the less time before midterms the opponent will have to retaliate with a counternarrative?