Kamala Harris So Unelectable That Democrats May Send her to Supreme Court
Not even a year into Joe Biden's presidency, Democrats are already trying to find another leader for their party. A poll last month found that 44% of Democrats want someone else to run in 2024, while just 36% hope Biden announces his plans for re-election. That's damning.
However, a team can't successfully replace a starting QB when the backup isn't viable either. And turning the keys over to Vice President Harris --- who has an abysmal 28% approval rating -- could symbolically punt the presidency away to Republicans in 2024.
With this polling data in mind, Democrats have privately discussed an idea to jumpstart a different candidate for 2024, according to the Telegraph. This "nuclear option" would include Biden not running for re-election and the party bypassing Harris by sending her to the Supreme Court.
The idea goes as follows:
"Democrats desperately scrambling to find a potential successor to Joe Biden in 2024 are whispering about a potential nuclear option that could see Kamala Harris, the current Vice President, nominated to the Supreme Court.
While the scenario is highly improbable, and perhaps a reflection of a Washington rumour mill in overdrive, the fact it has come up at all shows the depths of the predicament the Biden administration currently finds itself in, amid rising inflation, a stalled domestic agenda, and foreign policy disasters.
The left-field Supreme Court theory would mean Mr Biden nominating Ms Harris, a former high-flying prosecutor, if a seat on the court became available over the next three years, which it may well. Mr Biden could then use Section 2 of the 25th Amendment to nominate a more popular vice president.
That person would be the presumptive Democrat nominee should Mr Biden not run for re-election at the age of 82.