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.’”

  • @givesomefucks
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    313 days ago

    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

    • @Crashumbc
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      193 days ago

      Bold of you to assume we get a chance to vote in 4 years.

      • @Nurgus
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        73 days ago

        Trump brand electronic voting machines in every polling station, federally mandated!

    • @Ensign_Crab
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      63 days ago

      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.

      • @givesomefucks
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        33 days ago

        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.

        • @Ensign_Crab
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          03 days ago

          Warren isn’t a neoliberal, and splitting the progressive vote only needed 2.

          Which is why progressives need one candidate.

          • @givesomefucks
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            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.

    • @[email protected]
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      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.