text:  It's been this agonizing drip, drip, drip of people trying to get him to reconsider and of voters around the country wondering if he would reconsider. Fed by a steady stream of daily news stories that read tea leaves and applied electron microscopes to the tiniest scraps of evidence, looking for any minuscule signs indicating that maybe it could happen. Maybe Biden would rethink things. Democrats wondering what it might take to change Biden's mind.