 The Democratic higher-ups recognize he's going to lose, and they can't get rid of him. They can't get rid of him. The cork is still in the bottle. And then there is the problem, the existential-level threat presented by Biden's collapse to the legacy media, which stapled themselves to Barack Obama's cheeks in 2008 and have not been able to separate themselves off from the Democratic Party ever since. And now they can ride this bomb all the way down to the ground like Rip Torn in Dr. Strangelove.