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What are "the voters" going to do about it? "Voters" don't determine the party nominee or the president. The US isn't a democracy. The party bosses committed to going down with the ship aren't doing that because they believe Biden stands a better chance of keeping the presidency; they've all publicly resigned themselves to a second Trump term. The opportunists speculated for replacement as the party nominee all know they stand an even worse chance than Biden at being selected for the presidency. The current internal conflict among the party elite is people who don't expect the party to hold power, and are fighting over what they think will best advance their personal careers by 2028 after Trump leaves office and Biden's dead (from old age, Mr. FBI).

The media and donors suddenly pushing for replacement aren't doing that because they're afraid Biden's public deterioration might make voters vote Trump into office. They'll continue to profit whichever of the two is in office. They're pushing for replacement because they rely on the mythology of the two-party system of liberal democracy in order to keep consumers consuming, investors investing, and voters voting. Most of the country doesn't like Trump, and Biden is doing a bad job of both pretending to represent a meaningful alternative to Trump and pretending to actually be making any of the decisions nominally coming out of the white house. If Democrat voters lose immersion in the fantasy that they have influence and representation in the American system of government, they might start to become more inclined toward political activity outside the acceptable boundaries of "vote, consume, invest". As we saw in 2020 after the murder of George Floyd (among others), once people start engaging in political activity that strays outside those boundaries, capital will feel vulnerable and react with violent police and military crackdowns to protect property.