Former Kamala Harris aide says Joe Biden should resign so she can serve as 47th president
Former Kamala Harris aide says Joe Biden should resign so she can serve as 47th president
Former Harris communications director Jamal Simmons said on CNN that Joe Biden could step down, allowing Kamala Harris to serve as the 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.
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
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.
Who gives a shit if she’s president for a month. What a psycho Stan.
Someone was joking that it would ruin all the 47 Trump merch they had been made. Would be funny
I mean, Biden dropping out already caused a fuss with people who bought the "Don't let the old man win" merch because it suddenly changed from an anti-Biden slogan to an anti-Trump slogan
Would just double their sales when everyone buys new ones.
I support this because it's very funny (in a pathetic way)
She might have the balls and lawyer know-how to abuse the legal protections Trump placed on presidents. But it's all highly fantastical as Democrats lost the elections so obviously.
Petty? Absolutely. Vindictive? Without question.
Fucking hilarious? 100%.
Unfortunate that he is a former aide so Harris can't fire him.
Such shenanigans would hurt the anti Trump cause (if it exists) by trivializing the elections and making it appear as just a game to Harris.
It's not petty it's self ridiculing.
Also relies on Republicans not making the case that next in line should be Trump because he won already
Performative bullshit and really insulting to VP Harris and Women in general
I think she should do it to fuck with Trump since all his 47 branded merch would then be worthless.
Then he just gets to sell a whole new batch of 48 merch and get even more money... That would really show him?
Maybe she shouldn't have sucked so hard that she lost to trump lmao 🤷♀️
Seems utterly pointless.
Simmons argued that this move would keep Harris from having to oversee "her own defeat" when the presidential election is certified in the Senate
If Gore can do it, so can Harris
This is dumb, petty and counterproductive.
But a lot of conservatives were complaining that Harris had to know that Biden wasn't capable of the job and she should have activated the 25th amendment. But she didn't do that and when he did step aside to let her be the candidate these same people that were all about her kicking him out of office were now saying that this was a bloodless coup even though she was only running for pres instead of actually being president. Basically they were irked because she didn't do what they wanted and would have been upset if she did what they wanted. Damned if she did and damned if she didn't.
So if he steps down and she becomes president they get to be unhappy about it and claim the high ground both ways.
Really wish we had adults running things instead of transparently partisan idiots who don't hold any consistent core belief system.
To be fair, this way she could run the campaign while he runs the country.
These people aren't looking for fare. They are looking for excuses to always paint every choice as failure.
Why waste the time?
Maybe they think she'll try to do all the things Biden won't do. Things like pack the court or somehow codify Roe v Wade, even if it's far fetched. Show everyone what they missed out on, even if it gets reversed a month later.
Unless that's the plan, it would be a complete waste of time.
To get the first female president and show that a woman wouldn't press the nuclear button within 30 seconds of taking office.
Because it's so much better for women if the first female president ends up with a shorter term than Liz Truss, and only as a consolation prize. That'll definitely help the case of the next female candidate.
I don't think it really counts unless she's voted in or there's no choice. For the other... All of the sane people already know that, right?
I thought this is a an Onion at first.
Good luck, Jack!
If there was dumbest takes on the election contest, this guy might not win but he would for sure get at least an honorable mention.
The glass cliff again.
Fucking move on already.
Trump hasn't even moved on from 2020.
And so we’re supposed to do absolutely valueless stupid shit like this?
What did kamala harris ever do that she deserves a favor?