How bad are things inside Bidenworld—a circular firing squad that my partner John Heilemann recently remarked makes the finale of Reservoir Dogs look like a Merchant Ivory film? I’m told by a reliable source that earlier this week, before the Biden camp settled on a sit-down with NBC’s Lester Holt next Monday night, they considered having the president deliver a primetime Oval Office address during the Republican convention in an attempt to make a scripted, direct (and, of course, desperate) appeal to a larger audience, since all the networks would be obliged to carry it. “He won’t leave that office until there are no more tools to use,” said the source. (White House spokesperson Andrew Bates denied that they were considering an option typically reserved for moments of national emergency.)