I always thought they were gonna replace him- just thought they were going to do it more smoothly . Like using the 25th Amendment after his nomination . I think that was the initial plan, even until recently. ( by the way, don’t know how much of this plan Biden knew about, if anything at all)The early debate was scheduled to create an event to build the narrative , so people would start talking . They gave him no drugs on purpose . Even though the MSM seemed to all of the sudden “turn “ on Biden, strategically they had every reason to take their time , because Once Biden was officially nominated , they could always take him out with the 25th Amendment AFTER September’s nomination. The failed assassination attempt against 45 also had something to do with it . If Trump had been killed, who knows .. they could’ve also taken out Biden and blamed it on an angry Trump supporter. However , because their assassination attempt failed , and because we started hearing that he *wasn’t going to endorse Kamala, the DNC probably grew restless and pissed off about getting all the bad press.