Despite her resounding defeat, desperate Democrats are wishing and praying for an unlikely way that Kamala Harris can still become the 47th President of the United States – if Joe Biden resigns!
The absurd suggestion was made by Jamal Simmons, a former communications director for Harris, who said that if Biden should step down between now and inauguration day in January, Harris could serve out his term as the first female and, technically, the 47th President!
Asked on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday show what he thought would be the most important thing to watch for in the 71 days until President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, Simmons said, “[Biden] could resign the presidency in the next 30 days (and) make Kamala Harris the president of the United States.”
“Joe Biden’s been a phenomenal president,” Simmons said. “He’s lived up to so many of the promises he’s made. There’s one promise left that he can fulfill: being a transitional figure.”
The move, Simmons argued, 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. The vice president also serves as the President of the Senate, including when Congress certifies the results of a presidential race.
There is, however, no evidence Biden would ever consider leaving office before the end of his term.
Still, that has not stopped others from joking about Biden clearing a potential path for Harris.
For example, “Pod Save America” co-host and former speechwriter for former President Barack Obama Jon Lovett said Harris’s loss meant that “Jimmy Carter has to stay alive for four more years now.”
Carter, who’s been in hospice care for over a year, had said he was hanging on to vote for Harris.
“I mean, there is still a chance Jimmy Carter sees a female president before he dies,” Lovett said. “But it requires Joe Biden doing something awesome.”
After the President-Elect and Vice President-Elect JD Vance move into the White House in January, Harris will be out of political office for the first time since 2004. Despite this break in her 20 years of uninterrupted political service, Harris hinted in her concession speech that this would not be the end of her political career.
“I concede this election, I do not concede the fight that fueled this campaign—the fight: the fight for freedom, for opportunity, for fairness, and the dignity of all people,” Harris said in her Nov. 6 speech. “A fight for the ideals at the heart of our nation, the ideals that reflect America at our best. That is a fight I will never give up.”