From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

Democrats are aghast, and I think it's fair to say, depressed at Donald Trump's second term.

But did they help reelect him by covering up for President Biden's mental and physical decline that came close to letting

him run for re-election. That's the question Democrats are facing anew as new evidence emerges,

that there were a lot more signs of President Biden's decline than the party and the press were willing to admit in

2023 and 2024.

So what does that mean for the party going forward?

That's our subject for today in Potomac Watch.

I'm Paul's you go, editor of the Wall Street Journal opinion pages with my colleagues

Kyle Peterson and Kim Strassel.

First, let's acknowledge the president news late on Sunday that he has been diagnosed with

an aggressive form of prostate cancer that has spread to his bones.

This is a very tough diagnosis, though the announcement said it's a form of cancer amenable to hormone treatment,

which is good. We certainly wish the president well as he undergoes treatment. And we'll

talk a little more about the prostate issue later in the program. But first, let's talk about

the debate the Democrats are having about President Biden's health and the 2024 election. A new book by Jake Tapper of

CNN and Alex Thompson of Axios has come out, and that's triggering much of this debate.

And they write that they talk to 200 some Democrats about Biden. And then they came up with

this book. It's called Original Sin, President Biden's

decline, its cover-up, and his disastrous choice to run again. The book is written as something

of an expose, but the question they're telling us about is that this is really a cover-up and that

the American public, as if almost they're telling the

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