whilst I probably fall on the side of the fence that says Joe will go before the election - one way or another
It will take the equivalent of a political nuclear bomb to shift him, it won't be done "conventionally". He would need to be removed from the chess board, maybe with prejudice.
The (D)s have swallowed their own propaganda, never thinking that their Emperor would be shown to have no clothes.
the surprising thing about these revelations is that any one was surprised. But were they?