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Desperate Dems Cling to Unlikely Way Harris Can Still Become POTUS

&NewLine;<p>Despite her resounding defeat&comma; desperate Democrats are wishing and praying for an unlikely way that Kamala Harris can still become the 47<sup>th<&sol;sup> President of the United States – if Joe Biden resigns&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The absurd suggestion was made by Jamal Simmons&comma; a former communications director for Harris&comma; who said that if Biden should step down between now and inauguration day in January&comma; Harris could serve out his term as the first female and&comma; technically&comma; the 47<sup>th<&sol;sup> President&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Asked on CNN&&num;8217&semi;s &&num;8220&semi;State of the Union&&num;8221&semi; 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&comma; Simmons said&comma; &&num;8220&semi;&lbrack;Biden&rsqb; could resign the presidency in the next 30 days &lpar;and&rpar; make Kamala Harris the president of the United States&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Joe Biden’s been a phenomenal president&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Simmons said&period; &&num;8220&semi;He’s lived up to so many of the promises he’s made&period; There’s one promise left that he can fulfill&colon; being a transitional figure&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The move&comma; Simmons argued&comma; would keep Harris from having to oversee &&num;8220&semi;her own defeat&&num;8221&semi; when the presidential election is certified in the Senate&comma; and &&num;8220&semi;it would dominate the news at a point where Democrats have to learn&&num;8221&semi; to grab the public&&num;8217&semi;s attention&period; The vice president also serves as the President of the Senate&comma; including when Congress certifies the results of a presidential race&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>There is&comma; however&comma; no evidence Biden would ever consider leaving office before the end of his term&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Still&comma; that has not stopped others from joking about Biden clearing a potential path for Harris&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>For example&comma; &&num;8220&semi;Pod Save America&&num;8221&semi; co-host and former speechwriter for former President Barack Obama Jon Lovett said Harris’s loss meant that &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Jimmy Carter has to stay alive for four more years now&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Carter&comma; who’s been in hospice care for over a year&comma; had said he was hanging on to vote for Harris&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;I mean&comma; there is still a chance Jimmy Carter sees a female president before he dies&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Lovett said&period; &&num;8220&semi;But it requires Joe Biden doing something awesome&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>After the President-Elect and Vice President-Elect JD Vance move into the White House in January&comma; Harris will be out of political office for the first time since 2004&period; Despite this break in her 20 years of uninterrupted political service&comma; Harris hinted in her&nbsp&semi;concession speech&nbsp&semi;that this would not be the end of her political career&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;I concede this election&comma; I do not concede the fight that fueled this campaign—the fight&colon; the fight for freedom&comma; for opportunity&comma; for fairness&comma; and the dignity of all people&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Harris said in her Nov&period; 6 speech&period; &&num;8220&semi;A fight for the ideals at the heart of our nation&comma; the ideals that reflect America at our best&period; That is a fight I will never give up&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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