Sooner than that, actually; they missed their chance in 2020, when his senility was already obvious

Democrats Actually Missed Their Chance to Ditch Biden a Year Ago

Matt Margolis: “Many Democrats blame their loss in 2024 on Joe Biden for not getting out of the race sooner. But, they were handed an out on a silver platter nearly a year ago, and refused to take it.”

It’s incredibly frustrating to watch members of the mainstream media now admitting they failed to question Joe Biden’s cognitive health sooner—a failure many believe could have significantly altered the outcome of the election. Had Biden dropped out earlier, they argue, it would have given Kamala Harris, or perhaps a more competent Democrat, the time needed to build a stronger, more competitive campaign and potentially defeat Trump.

Yet, they had such an opportunity to do so a year ago, but they missed it—months before the June debate with Trump made it impossible for them to keep covering for him.

The truth is, there had been mounting evidence of Biden’s cognitive decline for years—even during the 2020 election—but they decided to defend him, ignoring growing concerns about his fitness for office. His verbal gaffes and memory lapses were hard to ignore, but the mainstream media dismissed these concerns as “conspiracy theories” or “ageist attacks.” ….

Despite their instinct to defend Joe Biden, the media’s first real opportunity to address his cognitive issues came not after the infamous Biden-Trump debate but with the release of Special Counsel Robert Hur’s report on Biden’s mishandling of classified documents in February 2024. 

That should have been the turning point, not the debate.

Though no charges were filed, Hur’s report raised serious concerns about Biden’s mental health, particularly his memory issues. 

The irony of the situation was that it was Biden’s advanced age and memory issues that saved him from being charged with mishandling classified information.

The report assessed that Biden's memory was "significantly limited, both during his recorded interviews with the ghostwriter in 2017 and in his interview with our office in 2023" and determined it wasn't worth bringing him to trial because Biden "would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory." Thus it would be "difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him [...] of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness.”

Hur’s report presented a clear opportunity for Democrats to reconsider Biden’s candidacy, but they failed to act. In fact, Democrats doubled down on their support of Biden, and attacked Hur for even making such an assessment of Biden. 

It’s not like the Hur report came out of nowhere, either. Hardly a week went by during Biden’s presidency without fresh evidence of Biden’s cognitive impairment coming out. The media even conceded the report was damning, yet the Democrats stood firm in support of Biden. And nothing was done about it. So, the media went back to pretending the Biden problem wasn't a problem at all. Instead of acknowledging the evidence, the media chose to focus on Trump’s nonexistent issues, affording Biden an opportunity to maintain a façade of competence.

All this is probably irrelevant anyway. Although it’s amusing to read various Democrat “experts” bewailing Biden’s late departure from the race, what would any replacement have to offer voters except more of the same policies, intensified? That wasn’t an attractive proposition, then or now.

Also irrelevant now, but fun nonetheless, here’s a clip of those same Democrats and their media monkeys lying about their man’s mental acuity, put together by the Trump team.