Dare we hope?

Joe Biden is set to meet with his family on Sunday, a discussion that might include talk about his political future, even though it was scheduled to take place before his calamitous presidential debate on Thursday with Donald Trump.

The meeting at Camp David comes as pressures have mounted on Biden after the vast fallout of the debate.

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So far, at rallies and events following the Thursday debate, the Bidens have shown no sign of changing course, painting the debate as a one-off bad day and doubling down on 2020 election success against Trump.

  The Guardian

Of course. But, if they know that wasn't actually a one-off, or know that four more years (or four more months) could easily kill Joe, maybe they'll start discussing ways for him to bow out.  If they're not more concerned with the country than with their position in it, that is.

On Sunday, however, an administration official dismissed speculation that the Biden family summit was set to discuss the president potentially standing down.

“The premise of the [NBC] story is not accurate,” the official in a media huddle at New Jersey’s McGuire air force base.

The Camp David meeting, he said, “was public in our guidance before the debate. It’s been on the schedule for weeks. There is nothing more to it.”

But maybe they'll have a different take after that horrible night.

“I was hoping for more of a substantive conversation instead of, ‘Hey, let’s go out there and just be cheerleaders,’ without actually addressing a very serious issue that unfolded on American television for millions of people to see,” said Joe Salazar, an elected DNC member from Colorado.

You and me both.

A former Democratic National Committee vice chair wrote Sunday that leading Democrats must be pushed to urge President Joe Biden to withdraw from the 2024 presidential race or history will judge them harshly.

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Rybak wrote that Biden “deserves tremendous praise” for his time as president, but said people should not confuse gratitude for what he has accomplished with the need to win the 2024 presidential election over Trump.

“A Presidential election is not the Academy Awards where you are rewarded for what you did,” Rybak wrote.

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“Our elected officials,” wrote former Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak on Facebook, “are staying shockingly silent in public, especially considering how many of them acknowledge privately that this has to happen.”

“They fear political retribution but they should really fear that if we lose this election because they didn’t have the guts to do what they know needs to be done, holy hell and history will come down on them like an anvil,” he added.

  Politico

And then I don't want to hear any of them ever again saying Republicans are afraid to speak publicly about Trump.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE 01:50 pm:  Jamie Raskin seems to indicate the party is not unalterably committed to having Biden be the 2024 presidential candidate.