Clearing the tabs ...

"No matter who wins, we have to ask: Would President Biden have been a better candidate and choice despite suffering from the effects of age and 81 years?" asks Harlan Ullman over at The Hill. "Further, suppose that the disastrous June 27 debate with Trump had not taken place, or that Biden had been firing on all cylinders that night. Would Biden have been forced to withdraw? And whether Harris loses or wins, some will ask whether Biden might still have been a better candidate."

Ed: Anita Dunn accused Dems of 'bedwetting' when they pushed Biden out of the race. He took a big hit in the polling after the June 27 debate, but he'd bounced most of the way back by the time he withdrew. And assuming he could still campaign, Biden knew how to make connections with working-class voters.

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Cognitively Impaired Joe Biden opens his event in New Hampshire (at which Kamala refused to appear) immediately getting distracted by a child in the audience.

He's completely cooked and Kamala covered it up.

Neither are fit for office. pic.twitter.com/1StEK5t0KF

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) October 22, 2024

Ed: Joe Biden has always been creepy around girls and young women, and now the filters are failing even more. 

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KAMALA: "There was a phrase that I'll paraphrase that basically politics ends at the, at the, at the sea line — at the, at the, you know, at the boundaries of our country."

(The phrase you're looking for is "politics ends at the water's edge," Kamala) pic.twitter.com/B6fr73a8L0

— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) October 21, 2024

Ed: Wow. Just ... wow. 

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The [Los Angeles Times] editorial board, which has endorsed Democratic candidates in every presidential race since it first endorsed then-Sen. Barack Obama in 2008, was preparing to do so once again this election.

But according to two people familiar with the situation, executive editor Terry Tang told editorial board staff earlier this month that the paper would not be endorsing a candidate in the presidential election this cycle, a decision that came from the paper’s owner Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, a doctor who made his fortune in the healthcare industry.

Ed: If the June 27 debate hadn't taken place -- nor another one afterward -- you can bet that the LA Times would have endorsed Biden. They endorsed George Gascón on October 5, just to show how radically Left the editorial board has become. 

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Tim Walz claims President Trump "does not have stamina."

Does Tampon hear himself? President Trump is running circles around them with interviews, rallies, and events.

He's humiliating himself. pic.twitter.com/XYOTPByD7F

— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) October 22, 2024

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Former President Donald Trump is expected to participate in a roundtable at the Latino Summit in Doral, Florida on Tuesday. You can watch the event live here at 11a/10C.

Sen. JD Vance will be in Arizona on Tuesday and Nevada on Wednesday.

Vice President Kamala Harris will be in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday to receive briefings and conduct internal meetings with staff.

Ed: 14 ... 14 ... 14 ... 14 ... I think they're trying to keep her out of the battlegrounds to get the surrogates a chance to repair her standing. But about that ...

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Barack Obama: "I don't understand how we got so toxic and just so divided and so bitter." pic.twitter.com/OWj3uicQ1o

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) October 22, 2024

Ed: Gee, could it have had something to do with treating every Republican as though they were the second coming of Hitler? Hillary calling tens of millions of voters "deplorable"? Joe Biden claiming Mitt Romney would re-enslave blacks? Maybe Obama doesn't know how it got so bitter, but he was the one who scorned those "bitter clingers" to the Bible and to their right to keep and bear arms. 

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NEW: CNN's Abby Phillip and journalist Nayyera Haq argue that d*ck jokes are okay when Obama says them but not Trump.

Glad to see CNN is covering the hard-hitting issues.

Haq was seen throwing a fit after Scott Jennings called the panel out for their hypocrisy surrounding… pic.twitter.com/HLsgJx809Z

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) October 22, 2024

Ed: If the Left didn't have double standards, they wouldn't have any at all.

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Liz Cheney's argument for Kamala exists on another planet where Trump's campaign pledge is to withdraw from NATO. The same nonsense was claimed by anti-Trump Republicans in 2016 -- then Trump did the exact opposite in power, and expanded NATO. Please join us here on Planet Earth pic.twitter.com/B0Ef0rU5vh

— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) October 22, 2024

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"There was no stunt over there. Of course, we knew something was up because of the level of security," she said, but "it was a great surprise to see him there….he’s a very charismatic person and very relatable."

Andrejczyk said her short interaction with Trump felt like "meeting a friend."

"He looked us in the eye. The way he communicated with us, the way he greeted my children in the back seat. It was incredible. My kids were [saying] I can’t believe I shook Donald Trump’s hand," she said. "I’m not going to wash my hands for the next couple of days. He was very genuine. He’s a genuine man."

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POT, MEET KETTLE: Tampon Tim Walz — known as the "Dancing Queen" for his bizarre, wild gesticulations in public — is now smearing @elonmusk for "skipping like a dipshit" at President Trump's rally.

What a moron. pic.twitter.com/4g1TpPs9Bo

— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) October 22, 2024

Ed: Stay classy, dude.

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It is probably too much to say that Democrats have buyer’s remorse about moving on from Biden to Harris. Yet in the closing days of the campaign, it is possible that the race has reset to where it was before the June 27 debate: close, but with a slight Trump edge. The Rust Belt, where Harris may underperform Biden with union households, could once again pick the winner.

Harris’s dilemma is she may need to distance herself from Biden more forcefully than ever before to win. Her incumbency is her biggest weakness. The risk of Biden, a sitting president with nothing left to lose, going rogue or Pennsylvanians getting upset that "Scranton Joe" is being disrespected could make the vice president remain "not critical" of her boss.