President doesn't matter that much. Joe Biden can be President. Kamala Harris can be President. Joe Biden can be propped up in a Weekend at Bernie's style farce for 4 years. President doesn't matter all that much to the operations of bureaucracy. The policy will chug on largely the same powered by civil work force, consultants, donors, etc, who actually make and implement policy. President is rhetorical and moral leadership, which is why people are so dead-focused on Biden's cognition. That's the thrust of the main objection to Trump as well--he's odious, but his actual policies are largely a continuation of a rote Republican administration cooked up in a conference room at ALEC/K-street firms. The only significant change between the two admins will be on immigration policy where they'll go from the current psycho gestapo child-snatching Department of Homeland Security to a mere
deportation terrorizing DHS. That'll be nice for me, personally, because it'll reduce my 16-20 hour workdays finally. It'll marginally affect peoples' lives, but Republicans and Democrats have been advancing inhumane immigration policies since at least the Clinton Administration. Also the Supreme Court is already lost for a generation. So, yeah, in the bigger picture, nothing matters.
I think the Republicans are more worried than the Democrats. The Republican Party is going through an existential crisis. They are on a path of losing the senate and the presidency. Texas and Georgia are slowly (or not so slowly) shifting left. This is because the only people that the Republican Party appeals to are (older) white people. America is getting more and more diversified and especially states such as Texas and Georgia. It’s already happened in New Mexico and Arizona. Whether or not Democrat’s win Texas in November is not the end, but the beginning. Within a decade, Texas will likely become a blue state, and the Republican Party may never elect another president.
I wouldn't be as confident on this in the long-term. Maybe in 2020. But not beyond. And never, ever, ever underestimate the Dems' ability to bring a nail file to a gun fight.
Another major issue republicans are facing is the defectors. John Kasich (a Republican presidential candidate in 2016) is going to speak at the Democrat convention this weekend in support of Joe Biden!
No one cares about this lol. John Kasich, Rick Wilson, George Conway and their likes have a constituency of 18 people all of whom live in those major swing states between New York City and the Beltway. The only voters they appeal to are hashtag resistance Dem voters.