The question of whether Joe Biden could hold out against political pressure from the media, donors, Obama and influential figures across the party has been answered.

He couldn’t.

The donor coup succeeded. Democracy is dead, long live democracy.

His campaign people had kept insisting that he was running until the last minute when his account tweeted a statement that he was abandoning his campaign. The whole seemed reminiscent of the palace coup against Japan’s Emperor Hirohito after the bomb dropped. Clearly there were multiple factions at work, but the power players, led by the party’s donors, won out and Biden, sick and isolated, weakly crumbled.

His Twitter account, rather than in any personal appearance, announced the news and endorsed Kamala, thus cutting off any plans for a ‘blitz’ primary.

Lots of other questions however remain to be answered.

Biden’s letter states that he’ll give some sort of speech later this week. Expect some brief, rambling, confused, and semi-bitter remarks.

Republicans will raise two points.

1. The legal question of who can and can’t appear on the ballots. Some Republicans in more liberal states will likely be more ‘gentlemanly’ about it which Democrats would never do in their place if Trump had to drop out and Vance were to step in.
2. If Biden is unfit to campaign, why is he still fit to be president?

And that is the question that urgently needs to be answered.

Over the past few weeks, Dems and their media have laid out an argument (previously made by Republicans) that Biden is unfit on account of his mental state to be president.

So why is he still fit to remain in office?