He doesn’t want it to appear that Trump’s candidacy is affecting the sentencing… So his candidacy will directly affect when the sentencing happens.
The courts need to simply ignore the politics, no matter what they do to try and avoid it they always fall right into the shit because anything a candidate does has a political spin from somewhere. Just ignore it completely, act like the politics isn’t a part of the case, because it isn’t. If the case happens to be occurring during an election, well the candidate shouldn’t have been doing illegal shit in the first place.