With the prospects of President Biden's remaining in office still uncertain despite his insistence that he's not going anywhere, here are three updates:
• The Wall Street Journal posted a five-byline story Monday night headlined "How Biden's Inner Circle Worked to Keep Signs of Aging Under Wraps." It's a well-reported reprise of a piece that the Journal published a month ago that was widely dismissed at the time because of its reliance on partisan Republican sources. Now that earlier article looks prescient (free links).
• What you might call a mini-feeding frenzy broke out Monday afternoon when The New York Times, CNN and others reported that a specialist in Parkinson's disease had visited the White House eight times over the past eight months. Hours later, the story looked like a cautionary tale in not getting ahead of the story, as we learned that the doctor had almost certainly been called in to see other patients, and that his service at the White House goes back a dozen years.
• Josh Marshall is always worth reading when you're trying to make sense of complicated political stories. On Monday he wrote that he's less sure than he was a week ago that Biden would step aside, mainly because, well, he hasn't stepped aside. "By the end of the weekend," he wrote, "I was back to near total uncertainty about where any of this was going."
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