It is Biden voluntarily takes himself out of the race. Epstein making these comments is an interesting because
he is openly stating things contrary to the party line which so unlike him.

But Biden isn't going to take himself out of the race. He's already made the decision to run. It's too late to change his mind.

Look, the Iowa caucuses are in a month. Super Tuesday is two months later. At least a half dozen states have already closed their primary ballots to any new entrants. There just isn't time anymore.

Pointing out that Another Democrat might be a better candidate than Joe Biden (whether Another Democrat is Joe Manchin or Gavin Newsome or anyone else) isn't the right question, because that's not the choice Democrats have. They don't get to choose between Biden and any single other person any more. They only get to choose between having Joe Biden and having a chaotic, last-minute scramble for a dozen wannabe-nominees to start a Presidential campaign from freaking **jump** less than five weeks before the Iowa caucus. A process that is most likely to result in the nominee being Kamala Harris, because she's the Veep and the only one with a national infrastructure already available to her as a member of the Biden-Harris ticket.

Biden knows this. Everyone in the Democratic party knows this. There's just no more time to make a change.

So people like Epstein aren't actually trying to convince the Democrats to do anything different, but rather just laying the groundwork for a well-placed "I told you so" if Biden loses.