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As an Aussie that's zero surprise to me.

For those Americans who don't know we had a period between 2008 through to whenever the fuck Scott Moriscum (2015 I think?) took over where every year or two we had the sitting PM knifed in the back by their own party and replaced (in the span of those seven years we had six different PMs lmao).

Political parties don't generally knife the sitting leader to win. They knife them to save some of the furniture when they inevitably lose, because generally by the time a political party has gotten to the point where they're even considering it things have gotten dire for them.

I've only seen two leaders win outright after a change of leader this way and both times it was because there was a lot of time between the deposition and the actual election which allowed them to reset the narrative (also one of those times involved knifing an insanely unpopular conservative and replacing him with a generally-liked "moderate").

The Democrats sealed their fate the moment they and Biden left this to the last six months. Biden was talking about being a one-term transitionary President prior to getting elected and he should've stuck to that promise and let the Democrats have a robust primary selection process. Only a complete reset would've allowed them to win.

Speaking again as an Australian (someone used to seeing political parties try replacing their leader and the fallout that always brings) the Democrats were utterly finished the moment they started openly panicking and looking incompetent. People vote for the government that looks most competent (emphasis on the word looks), the moment you start looking like a disorganized rabble you have already lost the next election. People do not vote for weak leaders.