 Victory, according to other advisors. The president's family has also been supportive of his sticking it out, noting his long history of overcoming the odds and defying skeptics. Proud and stubborn, Mr. Biden keeps a mental checklist of all the times he has succeeded after being told that he could not, and he tends to dig in the more he is pushed to change. But the mounting demands to step aside now come not from ancillary players or media commentators, but from the very Democrats