OH, to have been a fly in the room as Democrats watched the presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. They were quick to shoot down media reports about panic in the room. The delegates who endorsed Biden’s bid even double downed on their choice: only Biden can defeat Trump.

But with each passing day, as the date for election nears, there are calls from various stakeholders, including Democrats, columnists and actor George Clooney, for Biden to step aside. At the time of my writing, eight lawmakers had called for Biden to step down.

(As a quick aside, I have no skin in this game because it does not matter whether a Republican or a Democrat president chastises us, bombs us or sanctions us. Funnily enough, it is the Pakistanis in the US I fear more who are hell-bent on punishing the country for not working hard enough to get Imran Khan back in power.)

The cruellest calls against Biden are not from the usual suspects — politicians who are panicking about their future — but the media, particularly those who cheered for Biden and are now throwing him under the bus. Like one New York Times columnist who wrote in October that an “older wiser president … had vital strengths…” to writing it was time to “find a........

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