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Joe Biden and a small group of his protectors want to make this all about them.

They want Biden to be able to exit in a "dignified" way. They are annoyed at the "elites" who underestimated or sidelined him in the past and, as Biden himself said, "think they know so much more." They are mad that he's being "railroaded" by aides to Barack Obama"and maybe Obama himself. They "DETEST" the fact that people are downtalking him to the media.

It's a bunch of self-indulgent malarkey.

All of this stuff might make vaguely interesting fodder for a lightly watched limited Netflix series about the Bidens in 2027 (assuming Obama doesn't undermine that one, too). But it is completely irrelevant to the responsibility with which they have been charged.

This campaign is not about Joe Biden, the man. It is not about Joe Biden's feelings. And it sure as shit is not about Joe Biden's legacy, something nobody in this country gives more than two minutes' thought to besides people with the last name Biden, a coterie of pop historians whose opinion the president cares about, Sam Stein, and a handful of social media influencers that the campaign has paid to care. (And, either way, his legacy is consumed by this humiliating defeat if he doesn't change course.)

This campaign is about whether Biden and his team are able to successfully take on Donald Trump. The ability to do that is what got Biden the presidency. And the inability to do it again is why two-thirds of the Democratic party want him to drop out.