My guess is Biden had two 'problems' that led to him being left in as long as he was, first he has had to overcome a stutter which has meant he has always swapped words and made mistakes in his speech, my guess is he concentrates so hard on keeping the rhythm of his speech going, and he is brilliant at that, that he sometimes loses track of what he is saying, but because of this his own people just discounted the verbal slip ups as normal Joe.
The other part of it is his Presidency has been utterly brilliant, I have no doubt historians will look back at Biden as one of the most successful POTUS's ever bearing in mind the cards he's been dealt, a divided fractious country, a GOP controlled (and I use that term loosely) house, a right wing SC, the invasion of Ukraine and he has still managed to steer the economy back to world dominance, repatriated vast amounts of industry and pass more legislation than anyone since Reagan.
I suspect most in the party, like myself, where wondering when the hell the average voter was going to recognize they had just lived through the worst financial crisis the world had seen since 1974 and barely been touched by it, and perhaps that is the problem, most Americans don't realize that the world economy has fallen apart because it just hasn't touched them, but if there was any justice, or at least if previous elections were a model Biden should be unassailable, I think it's just taken the Party a while to realize that the old rules don't apply, and that in the case of Trump reality doesn't apply, he just lies to his acolytes and we live in a world were voters seem more comfortable with simple lies than the truth.
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