One of the problems with the democrats strategy in that scenario is that most, if not all, of the problems under Trump were contrived by the media. Imagine how much better things would be if our biggest ‘problem’ was worrying about whether Biden was present when two Russian prostitutes peed on a bed. People would scratch their head at it while pumping $1.86/gallon gas into their car.
Same ditto for all the Trumpian drama, more generally. It was noisy, the media was in a *constant* state of agitation over…whatever, but it had little to no effect on people’s day to day lives. People—including record minorities, were working and content.
We traded those ‘problems’ for a host of *real* problems under Biden and the Democrats.
Regarding the OP it’s been theory all along that if/when they were getting ready to dump the Big Guy the first sign of that would be the media turning on him.