I think everyone should calm the fuck down.
Stop clutching your pearls and figure out how to help Biden win.
For all his failings, he is still the best chance we have to stop the worst man ever to be in the White house.
If he's the best chance, we're fucked.
I've been a Biden supporter for a long time. He's managed to make chicken salad out of chicken shit for the past 3-1/2 years, supporting Ukraine, strengthening NATO, pushing through a massive infrastructure bill, reducing drug prices, etc. But what too many people see is is an old guy who hasn't been able to reduce inflation / profiteering. It won't drive votes to Trump as much as it will cause voters to stay home.
He had one job in the debate: look like he had more marbles remaining than Trump does. He failed. I don't care if he had an off day. If I'm running the Trump campaign, there is no second debate, so that awful performance is what people are left with. There would be pressure on Trump to participate only if there's a new candidate, other than Harris.
Harris will be perceived as a younger sidekick who also didn't do anything to make the average person's life better. She's not the answer.
No one in Congress is the answer either. Being associated with the shitshow at the Capitol is the last thing a candidate wants. The best options are governors, Newsom and Whitmer probably at the top of the list.
Someone suggested a ticket of Whitmer and Shapiro (PA governor), which would be a big advantage in two swing states. I'm not sure how Whitmer would do in a debate, but I think Newsom would gut Trump like a fish.