It's also not really realistic to unseat a sitting President if they want to run again. And the only examples of a President not standing for re-election in the last 100 or so years were ones who replaced Presidents who died mid-term, so they had already served more than 4 years.
Ideally, Biden would have been realistic about his chances and left the door open to stepping aside, but that never happened. It also doesn't help that a guy who'd be 82 at the start of his next term has a Vice-President with an even lower approval rating than he has. Replacing Harris with someone competent might be their best shot, but given how stubborn (and in denial) the Democrats and Biden seem to have been, I doubt that happens.
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