Journalists love this shit because they think it’s secret knowledge that makes them special when they’re just being lied to so they create uncertainty.
“Publicly, Trump and his allies have dismissed suggestions that Biden could withdraw from the race, insisting that it is too late for Democrats to change course. Privately, they… feel it could be harder to beat another Democrat who is not Biden or Harris.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
there could be some truth to that! but even accounting for that possibility, i think the discrepancy between republicans' public statements and private off-record ones is worth noting
