Barack Obama, like the rest of the country, is worried about November.

The past six days have been dark times for Americans who don’t want an aspiring dictator to become the next president of the United States. Unfortunately, thanks to Trump’s objectively poor debate performance, Joe Biden, It could actually happen—and thanks to the Supreme Court, Donald Trump has been given the green light to rule as a true dictator, should he ever return to the White House. But, hey, the good news is—no, just kidding, we don’t have any good news. Although perhaps one can take solace in the fact that even Barack Obama supposedly terrified of November, in a “we’ll get through this together” kind of way. Yeah, that’s the low bar!

Washington Post reports that Obama “privately told allies who have reached out to him that President Biden’s already difficult path to reelection had become even more challenging after his uncertain debate performance on Thursday—a harsher assessment of the presidential race than his public comments, according to several people familiar with his remarks.” Did the 44th president watch the debate with his hands over his eyes? Michelle Did Biden really pull him back from the brink after he said he would “defeat Medicare”? That’s unclear, but what is clear is that, in private, he’s just as worried as millions of other Americans. (A spokesperson for Obama declined the Post’s request for comment.)

That collective fear was perhaps not alleviated by another report on Tuesday, from New York Timesthat “In the weeks and months leading up to President Biden’s stunning political performance on the debate stage in Atlanta, several current and former officials and others who met with him behind closed doors noted that he had become increasingly confused or disengaged, or would lose the thread of conversation.” According to the outlet:

Like many people his age, Mr. Biden, 81, has had his share of instances when he has misspoken a sentence, forgotten a name or gotten a few facts wrong, even though he can be sharp and focused most of the time. But in interviews, people who have been in the room with him more recently said these lapses have seemed to become more frequent, more pronounced and more troubling. These unpleasant incidents are unpredictable, but they seem more likely when he is in a crowd or tired after a particularly intense schedule.

On June 10, he appeared to freeze at an early Juneteenth celebration. On June 18, his soft voice and brief struggle to name his homeland security secretary at an immigration event confused some of his allies at the event, who exchanged nervous glances and later described themselves as “shaken,” as one put it. Biden recovered and named Alejandro N. Mayorkas.

As if Time Biden “certainly wasn’t always like this,” the note said, and aides and others who met with him in the days after the debate reported that he was “alert, coherent, and competent, engaging in complex and important discussions, and managing volatile crises.” People familiar with the matter also cited his performance in the Situation Room on the night Iran fired missiles and drones at Israel, saying he was “in command” as he spoke with the prime minister. Benjamin Netanyahu. Neera Tanden, Biden’s domestic policy adviser told Time The president is “curious,” “focused,” and “sharp,” and in press conferences, “he will ask you a tough question and he will say, ‘How does this relate to the average person?’ And if you haven’t thought about it in that time, you have to come back to him.” Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, Biden’s homeland security adviser said at a Situation Room briefing less than two weeks before the debate that the president had “digested a tremendous amount of information” and asked her “deep and insightful” questions. She said his performance on the debate stage “did not reflect the experience I had with him on a day-to-day basis.”

Clearly, things are not looking good from a re-election perspective. In a sign of how dire the situation is, a Time Biden “told a key ally that he knows he may not be able to salvage his candidacy if he can’t convince the public in the coming days that he’s up for the job after last week’s disastrous debate performance,” according to a report Wednesday. To that end, betting sites believe the vice president Kamala Harris will be the Democratic nominee. (A White House spokesman told Time claims that Biden is likely to drop out are “completely false.”)

But whether it’s Biden or Harris (or someone else entirely) on the ballot, it’s important to remember who’s up for grabs. And if the worst thing about Biden is his forgetfulness, well, as Time note: