Come on, man. Are we really to believe that Jill Biden had reservations about another term in office? CNN reports this morning that the First Lady has experienced a “tidal shift” in thinking from September, when she was “not a proponent” of a Joe Biden 2024 campaign.

Now she’s “all in” on four more years, according to their sources:

First lady Jill Biden, despite being so worn out from a recent circuit of White House events that she lost her voice, is now seriously looking ahead to her husband running for reelection in 2024. That’s a tidal shift from her position just three months ago.

Seven people familiar with Biden’s thinking told CNN that her private conversations about another run now match her publicly enthusiastic persona, as well as the sentiments of President Joe Biden.

The first lady was still mostly skeptical as of early fall – “not a proponent,” as one person familiar with her thinking told CNN. But in the month since the November midterm elections, in which Democrats defied the fate of most parties of first-term presidents, friends noted a change.

Jill Biden is now “all in” on the idea, according to a person who works with the East Wing.

To buy this, one would have to imagine a Biden family not obsessed with power and profiting off of it. One would also have to imagine that Jill Biden has been anything but an enthusiastic participant in Biden Inc. It would take a real dog-faced pony soldier to buy this malarkey, man. I’m not kidding!

You can bet that the Bidens’ ambitions haven’t changed since September, not after 50 years at the trough in Washington DC. So what did change? Their chances of re-election, or so they think, and CNN’s report actually hints at this. The “change” that friends noticed came after the midterms, when either (a) Democrats did a lot better than expected with Biden at the helm, (b) Republicans blew a golden opportunity by embracing fringe-y candidates in key states, or (c) a little of both. Biden still lost the House, added only one Senate seat when Republicans were defending nine more seats in the upper chamber (and five retirements among them), but the Bidens clearly read this as (a) — and a vindication.

The Bidens aren’t alone in that, either. The midterms stopped the buzzards circling over Joe, especially California’s Gavin Newsom, who had clearly been preparing a primary challenge through the midterms. Others who had openly counseled Biden to retire rather than run again clammed up and instead deferred to the Bidens to make that decision for themselves. Anyone who has watched Joe Biden over the years knew exactly what they would decide.

The problem is that the lesson from the midterms was most definitely not (a). Biden’s standing with voters hasn’t improved a whit over the last three months, or even over the last 15 months since the disgraceful rout in Afghanistan. Neither has voter assessment of the direction of the country, near all-time lows. Republicans blew their chances in the midterms, and even with that, still ended up taking back the House from Biden.

If Biden heads into a presidential cycle against anyone not named Trump, he’ll get blasted out of office. The Bidens are apparently the only people who don’t know this. If Republicans nominate someone even a little younger and more energetic, the contrast will be so large as to be humiliating, and Republicans have at least a couple of options that fit the bill — Ron DeSantis, certainly, and Glenn Youngkin, possibly. All the midterm did in terms of the 2024 cycle is lock Democrats into defending Biden in a national election, and Jill Biden’s enthusiasm makes that lock even more unbreakable.