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.’”

  • azuth@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    32·
    6 days ago

    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.

    • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
      7·
      6 days ago

      Also relies on Republicans not making the case that next in line should be Trump because he won already

    • Steal Wool@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      6 days ago

      Maybe she shouldn’t have sucked so hard that she lost to trump lmao 🤷‍♀️

    • mriguy@lemmy.world
      2·
      5 days ago

      I think she should do it to fuck with Trump since all his 47 branded merch would then be worthless.

      • jj4211@lemmy.world
        5·
        5 days ago

        Then he just gets to sell a whole new batch of 48 merch and get even more money… That would really show him?

  • FauxPseudo @lemmy.world
    24·
    6 days ago

    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.

  • FlowVoid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    6 days ago

    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

    • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orgEnglish
      4·
      6 days ago

      To get the first female president and show that a woman wouldn’t press the nuclear button within 30 seconds of taking office.

      • jonne@infosec.pub
        19·
        6 days ago

        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.

      • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
        3·
        6 days ago

        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?

      • Thorry84@feddit.nl
        1·
        6 days ago

        Sounds like the perfect plan to have Trump change the law so no woman can hold a high office ever again. It’ll blend in nicely with their proposal to not let women vote ever again.

        • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orgEnglish
          2·
          6 days ago

          Both elections he’s won have been against women. I think he will not ban women from office because he sees them as statistically weaker opponents against his successors.

    • FarFarAway@startrek.websiteEnglish
      3·
      6 days ago

      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.