This via Mistermix seems to confirm a prior thesis about New York gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino:
The showdown had its bizarre moments — like when Paladino bolted from the stage in the middle of the candidates’ closing arguments to go to the bathroom.
“When you gotta go, you gotta go,” his campaign manager, Michael Caputo, explained.
Hopefully there’s not a medical problem here that just hasn’t been disclosed. But if there isn’t, most responsible adults learn at some point to go to the bathroom before doing important things like going on television. Or maybe his bladder was just too damn full.