It's very late to change horses; a lot will happen in the next year that no one can predict & Biden's team says his resolve to run is firm.
He's defied CW before but this will send tremors of doubt thru the party--not "bed-wetting," but legitimate concern. nytimes.com/2023/11/05/us/… The greatest concern is that his biggest liability is the one thing he can't change. Among all the unpredictables there is one thing that is sure: the age arrow only points in one direction.

.@SenAlexander raises entirely valid concern about impact on divided nation of ousting @POTUS, which has never been done. But if you believe a brazenly unrepentant president did something “clearly inappropriate,” how do you stop him from doing it again?
nytimes.com/2020/01/31/us/…
A If you believe the voters should decide, as Alexander argues, shouldn’t they have had the benefit of the witnesses and evidence the president and the senate denied them?

“The president’s lawyers did not deny any of the core facts underlying Democrats’ charges, conceding what considerable evidence and testimony in the House has shown...”nytimes.com/2020/01/18/us/… “that he withheld $391 million in aid and a White House meeting from Ukraine and asked the country’s president to investigate former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and his son, Hunter Biden.”

One of the odd things about this debate is that so much of the argumentation rests on this notion of removing the president from office when everyone in the chamber knows the senate will NOT remove the president from office. The argument that the House seeks to “overturn the results of an election” is good @GOP fodder for riling up the base with talk of bloodless coups. But the whole point of impeachment is to safeguard us against extraordinary abuses of power by ELECTED presidents!

“Yes, the man pointed a gun at you and demanded your wallet. But did he ever say, ‘This is a robbery?’ And if he didn’t say ‘this is a robbery’ how, sir, could it be a robbery?!? “And you obviously didn’t FEEL threatened because you didn’t offer a word of protest when he had that gun pointed at you!”

The most disturbing thing about this whole Ukraine discussion is the alacrity with which the president’s supporters have adjusted their values to suit the moment, justifying a brazen, stealthy act of extortion of a critical ally. Without the whistleblower complaint, Ukraine was poised to submit to Trump’s private demands to launch a politically-motivated probe against the Bidens & we may never have known about the underlying, improper pressure @realDonaldTrump placed on Zelensky to do so.

Here’s what @NancyPelosi knows:
The WH would stall was long as possible in the courts any effort to get principals to testify or documents disgorged. There is enough evidence right now based on Trump call transcript and testimony already in hand to impeach @realDonaldTrump for the egregious Ukrainian caper, and the House would be derelict in its duties if it does not.

On latest @HacksOnTap, @KarlRove DEFENDS @JoeBiden v. @realDonaldTrump charges of corruption. While Rove questioned Hunter Biden’s $$ deal w/a shady Ukrainian oligarch, Rove dismissed that VP Biden acted in his son’s interests when he pushed for firing of a Ukrainian prosecutor. “Biden was working AGAINST his son's interests because what he was saying was ‘Get a prosecutor in there who's going to go after these bad actors.’ And guess who the bad actors included? Burisma and Zlochevsky. So, you know, at the end of the day, he was doing the right thing.”