I can see it. He then stews over Harris' numbers and success, and decides she must have done the same thing.

There's no way he could be beaten fairly, after all. He's the best, they all say that, they- good people, very good people, the best- they walk up to him, he didn't ask them, they come to him and they say- they say a lot of nice things, the best things- and these are good people, smart people, but they tell him he's the smartest, the greatest, and-

If I keep this up I'll probably cringe to death. Anyway, if he can't be beaten fairly, then Harris must be cheating. That justifies him cheating as well, but since she cheated first, she's wrong to cheat.