Joe Biden refuses to drop out of the presidential race even as some liberals, rattled by the incumbent’s frightening debate performance last week, keep pressuring him to do so.
The inertia of a presidential campaign is one of the most powerful forces in politics.
Furthermore, all serious presidential contenders, particularly those who hold or have already held the office — this year, we have both — have a God complex.
There are throngs of advisers, boosters and confidants around Biden to keep that doubt at bay; to introduce it is blasphemy.
Biden can’t be forced out of the race; he would have to be persuaded to leave it.
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