Really goes to show how crazy and unprecise you have to be to be rocking on that side of the aisle.
Cannot recover for one bad hour of debating, so they're going to throw away years and years of work?
It ain't like the other side exactly won or capitalized off that hour either
This is what kids call "copium".
More likely they know they can't beat Joe in November so they're trying to hopefully convince him to drop out.