Eugene Robinson: If Biden's poll numbers head south, Schumer, Pelosi and Clyburn need to intervene

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154. You're not going to create a united front using anger and vitriol

DUers might manage to cut down talk of Biden stepping down in the tiny world of DU, but this discussion about Biden remaining our candidate in happening and will continue to happen out in the broader world, at least until polls show Biden performing better (not merely not getting worse) or until Biden succeeds, by doing interviews not just speeches, in demonstrating he's good to go.

Like it or not, a large portion of the public, including loyal Democrats, are not ready, as so many on DU want to believe (or, perhaps make true by constant repetition), to dismiss Biden's performance in the first debate as "just one bad debate". His performance was bad in a way that really rattled a lot of people, people who shouldn't be readily dismissed as traitors and bed-wetters because of their honest, visceral reaction to what they saw.