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These are all fair points and points I'm sure to raise in the months ahead should Biden remain the nominee, but the way I see it is that polls haven't budged; aggregate approval rating for Biden continues to decline. We can argue how much this debate hurt Biden, but we can all agree it certainly did not help. And if it didn't help, what else can be done and said that hasn't already been done and said over the past years? Polling isn't just hard to budge positively, but it's actively trending opposite to what we need, relative to Biden's position in 2020. If the case of saying, "look it's between the old guy, and the fascist twice-impeached convicted felon with 3 more trials to go and who tried to overturn a free and fair election" hasn't worked yet, what makes anyone think it's going to work in the coming months? Hel this desperation is what led the Biden campaign to accept this debate in the first place -- a risk gambit that simply did not pay off. A tough sell.
So what do we do?
Well, in my view Democrats restore some trust by Biden publicly and voluntarily acknowledging the situation head-on, stepping down, and opening up the convention. Democrats nominate someone half-ways young and charismatic -- Whitmer, Booker, Newsom, Buttigieg -- I don't particularly care -- and I think the freshness of a face and the addressing of youth will be enough to sway swing voters.
I do hope that happens. A graceful exit for Biden and a fresh-faced nominee could very well be the thing we need.