President Joe Biden has just 10 weeks left to serve as commander in chief, but some in his own party think it might be a good idea for him to step aside ahead of Inauguration Day in January.
Jamal Simmons, Vice President Kamala Harris‘s former communications director, suggested over the weekend that Biden might be able to make for past mistakes and salvage his legacy to some degree by actually resigning and allowing the vice president to step into a new role as the nation’s first female president, at least for the next two months.
“Joe Biden has been a phenomenal president. He’s lived up to so many of the promises that he’s made. There is one promise left that he can fulfill: being a transitional figure,” he stated. “He could resign the presidency in the next 30 days, make Kamala Harris the president of the United States. He could absolve her from having to oversee the Jan. 6 transition of her own defeat.”
The White House has yet to comment on Simmons’s proposal, but the idea of Biden stepping aside evoked mixed emotions among White House officials who spoke to the Washington Examiner on the subject.
Multiple senior White House officials said that they doubted Biden would consider leaving office early, with one senior official noting that the president wouldn’t go out of his way to “gift the vice president an honor she didn’t actually earn.”
Another current senior White House official, though, blatantly disputed the healing factor a two-month Harris presidency might have on the party.
“There’s a sense that we tried to jam Vice President Harris down voters’ throats instead of hold an open primary,” that person assessed. “This certainly wouldn’t make that feeling go away.”
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