 Thinking from Democrats who've seen him at fundraisers or at smaller events, this has been a topic of whispers for quite a while. I remember in Washington after 2022, talking to people who were seeing Biden at Christmas parties or Christmas receptions and saying, boy, he looks a lot older. He wasn't able to stay for the entire reception. He forgot this person's name, things of that nature. It is a litany that has built up over time, and the debate exploded that because the premise of the debate and the reason the Biden campaign agreed to do an early one, pitched an early one, it was their idea,