The sudden departure under-duress of obviously declining Joe Biden does not make it more likely that Trump will win.

Arguably, it makes it less likely.

People who aren't Leftists have a weakness. It is their assumption that Leftists – there are no Democrats anymore – base their opinions and actions on evidence, logic and principles. They do not. They base them on feelings – and their only "principle" is that power (to impose their feelings) must be pursued by any means necessary.

We just witnessed that in action, although many appear to have missed it. Biden did not step aside; he was shoved aside. This is obvious, yet many seem to think the old grifter just changed his mind after weeks of publicly insisting – angrily, at times – that he was the nominee, that Leftists had voted in the primaries for no one else but him (which is true) and that he was not going to step aside. There was no maybe. There was certainty.

Until – just like that – there wasn't.

That doesn't happen except under duress. We are not likely to ever know exactly what sort of pressure – or inducement – was used to get the old grifter to pretend he had just changed his mind, in the manner of deciding to eat at McDonald's tonight rather than Burger King. But it is certain he was pressured or induced to change it by Leftist apparatchiks who understood that if he was allowed to continue all-but-publicly shitting his pants on live TeeeVeee and then grinning that Joker Smile of his at the camera as the turd slid down his pants leg, Trump would win because it would not be plausible to pretend the old grifter did.