It almost seems as if White House strategists want the focus of President Joe Biden’s first full press conference Thursday to be less the substance of governance and more the question of whether Biden is physically up for the job.

They have it set up so that if he does anything more than dodder around and mumble nonsense, the media will play up the presser as a Biden win. But if he does mumble nonsense, some of his minders will still be happy because they will be one step closer to removing Biden’s name from the “Biden-Harris administration.” There’s a sense that when Biden himself referred to his vice president as “President Harris,” he was doing nothing more than giving voice to the inevitable.