Some Democrats who are more supportive of Biden roll their eyes at the shenanigans.

“I think it’s the typical Democratic hand-wringing that we’ve seen prior to the midterms for every Democratic president since I became an adult,” said strategist Julie Roginsky, citing the big losses suffered by the party in the 1994 and 2010 congressional elections during the first terms of former President Clinton and former President Obama, respectively.

But those presidents did not really face any credible suggestion that they should surrender the White House after only one term.

Roginsky placed some of the blame for Biden’s plight on what she characterized as “the White House’s massive communications problem.”

She contended that the president and his aides are spending too much time on defense rather than assailing the GOP for its “extremist” positions on key issues such as abortion and election denialism.