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Absolutely not.

It's clear with how people ranked issues on exit polls,

Absolutely nobody would have won for the Democrats. The economic sentiment was too powerfully negative

DNC tricked Biden for that earlier debate in order to force out Biden. Prominent Democrats and many media people knew Biden's cognitive decline by then.

I don't think so, he wouldn't have overcome that event, and I think this was equally a referendum on Biden.