Just want to highlight something here:
It wasn’t that the president had grown tired of the drip of defections from within his own party — although he had. Rather, it was that Biden himself was finally convinced of what so many other Democrats had come to believe since his poor debate performance last month: He couldn’t win.
When the campaign commissioned new battleground polling over the last week, it was the first time they had done surveys in some key states in more than two months, according to two people familiar with the surveys. And the numbers were grim, showing Biden not just trailing in all six critical swing states but collapsing in places like Virginia and New Mexico where Democrats had not planned on needing to spend massive resources to win.
TWO MONTHS! THEY DIDN'T DO SWING STATE POLLING FOR TWO MONTHS! THESE ARE THE STUPIDEST PEOPLE EVER TO RUN A CAMPAIGN!
It looks like it seriously happened like "WE WILL NEVER GIVE IN! Fuck the Democratic party elders, fuck Obama, fuck Pelosi, we know better, Biden is the only one who can win!!!"
actually does their job for the first time in two months
"Ohhhh, shiiiit, they're right, damn..."
If they don't poll - Biden's polling numbers stay the same and don't get worse. That's Trump logic - "if we stop testing right now, we'd have very few cases of the coronavirus".
Didn't the Biden admin literally do this?
Yes. Democrats mocked Trump (albeit correctly) and harped incessantly on how this head-in-the-sand attitude would kill millions and was emblematic of the intolerability of the Trump presidency. Then the second they were in power, they did literally the exact thing that he said, but were actually successful at it.