Politico made some waves on Tuesday with this headline:

It described the “pervasive sense of fear (that) has settled in at the highest levels of the Democratic Party over President Joe Biden’s reelection prospects.”

Pete Giangreco, a longtime Democratic strategist who’s worked on multiple presidential campaigns, nailed the problem:

“If the frame of this race is, ‘What was better, the 3.5 years under Biden or four years under Trump,’ we lose that every day of the week and twice on Sunday.”