Here is The Washington Post columnist:
Of course Biden remains hugely preferable to Trump. But reporters aren’t making up the alarm they are hearing from Democratic politicians. Many who worry that his candidacy is unsustainable have been holding back out of esteem for Biden. They can’t do so any longer.
One of the hardest things — for the president, for those around him and for the many who believed he was still the country’s best option — is to acknowledge that those who worried about the effect of Biden’s age on his capacities may have been right all along. This is difficult enough for mere commentators. I can only imagine what it’s like for the president and those closest to him.
Many Democrats are rightly upset that the news is dominated by Biden’s debate travails, not the profound danger to the republic posed by Trump. For those who admire Biden, the great sadness of the moment is that his withdrawal may now be the only way to move the focus back to where it belongs.
Read the entire piece here.
Some members of Congress agree with Dionne.