Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy says 'no doubt' Biden suffered cognitive decline while in office

[Ms. Toad]

65. Very ill-advised statement

“There’s no doubt about it,” said the Connecticut senator when asked by POLITICO if Biden experienced cognitive decline as president. “The debate is whether it was enough that it compromised his ability to act as chief executive.”

It feeds into Trump's vague threats to prosecute Trump.

The time for questioning whether Biden should have dropped out earlier is long past. I have always believed he should not have run for a second term, but in my opinion the time for questioning that was before the primaries started, not after they were over.

This response goes well beyond questioning whether he should have dropped out (and, if so, and when), to questioning whether he was competent to govern during the remainder of his term. There is zero benefit to Democrats to navel gazing on that front. Whether he was, or not, has no bearing on where we go from here. All that suggesting he might not have been competent during his presidency does is to encourage Republicans who need no encouragement to go after him.

I do think we need to learn from the past so we don't repeat it - but Harris is the one who lost. It is her candidacy (and failure to distinguish herself form Biden on the Middle East and the economy) that we need to examine. Examining Biden's competence to govern, or even if/when to drop out, does not make it any more likely that we will win in the future.