Well that was quick. Last night we had an epic collapse from Joe Biden which led to widespread panic within his party. This morning there were lots of headlines about the possibility or advisability of him dropping out and clearing the way for someone else. Here’s one example from Nate Silver:
Biden has been graded on an incredibly generous curve, like after his substantively fine but poorly-delivered State of the Union address. And the White House has been playing hide-the-ball, from Biden’s declining to do a Super Bowl interview to reducing the number of debates from three to two to using executive privilege to block the release of the audio of Biden’s interview with special counsel Robert Hur — who concluded that Biden was an “elderly man with a poor memory” and was pilloried for it, even though Hur had been appointed by the White House’s own Attorney General,…
