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.’”

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    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.

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          Yup, just like they insist that he won 2020, they’ll still call him 47 regardless

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            Nah, they’ll all buy 48 hats, and Trump will be another few millions richer. This is such a stupid idea on so many levels.

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      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

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        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.

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          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.

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

            Which is why progressives need one candidate.

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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.

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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.

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      i read a post somewhere on here last wednesday suggesting the same thing.

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

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

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

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        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

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        It’s a funny thought, but what would it actually do?

        Funnel more wealth to Trump when they just shell out more cash for another round of merch?

        Or would they just roll with it and talk about how petty and impotent Dems are?

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      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.

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    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.

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

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    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

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    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.

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      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.

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

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        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.

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        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?

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        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.

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          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.

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    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.