 Mike Donilon, Biden's top political aide, told The New Yorker earlier this year that January 6th will decide the election, going as far as to comparing it to 9-11. The Democratic Party didn't want to believe it was a 9-11 election. He said in March, I decided after the election I would never be part of a presidential campaign that didn't figure out with clarity what it wanted to say and stick to it.