When I was a child, I assumed that the majority of adults knew what to do in a moment of crisis. It seemed like the adults in my life – at home, school and church – knew what to do when faced with panic.

I certainly thought elected officials and the people who work for them would be so competent. After nearly two weeks of Democratic feet-dragging about the president, I’m starting to have doubts about that.

We’re in the second week of headlines about President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance, and it seems like no one can discern what to do at this consequential moment in U.S. politics. The Democratic Party is acting as though this conversation can drag on. Party leaders must be forgetting how close the election is and that Election Day is right around the corner.

Five Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives have called on Biden to drop out of the presidential race ‒ but a lot more have rallied behind him, including the Congressional Black Caucus and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.

While Biden seems ready to move on, the conversation is far from over. And while he has insisted that he's staying in the race, his campaign officials must know they still have work to do.

One of the more surprising endorsements of Biden post-debate came from New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.

“The matter is closed,” Ocasio-Cortez told........

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