“Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser.”
As of about three weeks ago, Donald Trump was widely seen as the winner. Trump had crushed Joe Biden in their one and only presidential debate. Trump was so domineering, and Biden so overwhelmed, that the Democratic Party’s senior leaders and donors (and many of the party’s rank-and-file voters) turned against the president's re-election bid. The mainstream news media also participated, eagerly, in the feeding frenzy against Biden with allegations, greatly exaggerated, that he was no longer mentally sharp and that his age made him unable to continue as the party’s nominee (and that he should perhaps even step down from office).
