I suggest that you left out a crucial element in your long reflection: Nancy Pelosi.

<<Nancy Pelosi, the former Speaker of the House, continued to push, using a combination of private conversations, press leaks, and carefully calibrated public statements. On July 10th, Pelosi appeared on “Morning Joe,” on MSNBC, setting off a frenzy of Beltway tasseography. “It’s up to the President to decide if he is going to run,” she said, even though Biden had insisted repeatedly that he’d made up his mind. “We’re all encouraging him to make that decision.” (“Such a gangster move,” a ranking House committee member told me.) ...

<<...“She knew how much time she had on the clock, and she kept ratcheting up the pain until the Biden people got the message,” [Adam] Smith [D, Washington] told me. “An absolute master class.”>>

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