Do you believe personal attacks in politics distract from more important policy discussions, or do they offer valuable insights into a candidate's character?

I believe that both arguments are true, there are definitely more important things that could be discussed by the news, and better things that we could be focusing our attentions to, but when a president or presidential candidate makes his opinions very blatant like this, it shows a lot of their character. For example, this news headline states that "Biden targets Trump..." This may show more of Biden's character for us, as people who may or may not be voting for him, to analyze