drag on

“Apologies it’s dragged on, but we got there in the end,” he said.

“This investigation, my only chance at justice, has drained me physically and mentally…the longer this investigation drags on, the more my trust in the system fades,” she told the BBC.

As vice president, Harris eventually became less popular even than the fading Biden, according to polls, and was generally regarded as a drag on the president’s 2024 reelection prospects.

Under constant surveillance by her master, Jacobs similarly wrote, “I had rather live and die in jail than drag on, from day to day, through such a living death.”

Negotiations have dragged on for a year and a half, but could accelerate under a Trump administration.