Former Kamala Harris aide says Joe Biden should resign so she can serve as 47th president
Jamal Simmons, a former communications director for Kamala Harris, made an unlikely suggestion on CNN's "State of the Union" about how the vice president might still have a chance of becoming president in 2024. Simmons proposed that Biden could resign the presidency in the next 30 days, which would make Harris the president of the United States. Simmons argued that this move would keep Harris from having to oversee "her own defeat" when the presidential election is certified in the Senate, and "it would dominate the news at a point where Democrats have to learn" to grab the public's attention. However, there is no evidence that Biden would consider leaving office before the end of his term. Others have joked about Biden clearing a potential path for Harris, such as a co-host of "Pod Save America" saying that Jimmy Carter, who has been in hospice care for over a year, had said he was hanging on to vote for Harris. Simmons said that this would be a moment "to change the entire perspective of how Democrats operate," but not everyone on the panel was convinced, with one saying Simmons was "writing the new season of 'House of Cards.'"
And for their next trick, after being destroyed in the election by a literal traitor to the republic, they are going to tell 70 odd million voters to sod off by forcing kamala into office before Jan next year so trump is 48, and all his hats he's about to sell are wrong. Petty. But I'm impressed someone even recommended being this petty.
Honestly, fucking with trump’s bottom line amuses me.
So yeah. Do it!
This would only get him more money, it wouldn’t affect him negatively.
Yup, just like they insist that he won 2020, they'll still call him 47 regardless
Nah, they'll all buy 48 hats, and Trump will be another few millions richer. This is such a stupid idea on so many levels.
What would have been ever better is he resigned when it became obvious he lost his fucking marbles.
Or if the DNC didn't orchestrate everyone dropping 24 hrs before Super Tuesday and endorsing Biden to trick America into thinking anyone wanted Biden's old ass to begin with.
The only things we should be hearing from Kamala, her team, or the DNC is them begging for forgiveness in their resignation letters.
These people are fucking clownshoes and in 4 years they'll be running the campaign of the only other option again.
It'll probably be Kamala again, just even more conservative
Bold of you to assume we get a chance to vote in 4 years.
Trump brand electronic voting machines in every polling station, federally mandated!
Just like putin's.
It's either gonna be Newsom or Liz Cheney. Maybe Buttigieg again.
Progressives, if they intend to stay with the party, need to find their candidate as soon as possible. ONE candidate. We saw what happened in 2020.
2020 wasn't progressives putting out a bunch of candidates.
It was like 5+ neoliberals all claiming to be progressive in hyper specific areas, then all dropping and endorsing Biden within 48 hours of Super Tuesday so he'd inherit all those single issues voters and look dominat sonthe DNC could call the race two weeks into the primary.
As much as moderates bitch about "single issue voters" it's the only way Joe Biden won a primary after 4 decades of trying.
Warren isn't a neoliberal, and splitting the progressive vote only needed 2.
Which is why progressives need one candidate.
Warren was a useful idiot who thought her and the Biden/Clinton wing was on the same team because they have the same letter by their names and Bernie didn't.
I much prefer the universe where he didn't resign. He's genuinely a pretty good president on most issues and I rather Harris didn't get a chance to replace all his appointments with people even more corportist and neoliberal.
i read a post somewhere on here last wednesday suggesting the same thing.