Amid all the talk of Biden's debate performance -- the staring, the rambling answers, the raspy voice -- and the subsequent calls for him to step aside, there's one person whose walls I'd love to be a fly on: Kamala Harris.
After the debate, her X timeline was pretty bland for someone whose party was running around with its collective hair on fire.
Last night, @JoeBiden made clear this election is a contrast between someone who lies and someone who leads.pic.twitter.com/AjQoOBhG02
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) June 28, 2024
We'll set aside the fact Biden lied, repeatedly, and focus on the two biggest issues and how they have to have Kamala Harris absolutely seething in private.
First -- the admission Biden is unfit to be the candidate in 2024 is an admission he's probably not fit to be president right now. There are 204 days to the inauguration. How can Biden fulfill his duties as president between then and now if he's unable to continue as the candidate?
Second -- Kamala Harris is the vice president. The presumptive replacement if something happens to Biden.
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And yet, of all the names I've seen floated around to replace Biden -- Gavin Newsom, Gretchen Whitmer, Bernie Sanders -- one name is glaringly absent.
Kamala Harris.
I agree with my fellow Twitchy writer Aaron here -- she's an awful candidate.
Yet it's so much more than that.
Why was she made the VP nominee in the first place? Aaron says it's because she met the demographics the Democrats wanted -- black and female.
True.
But so do many other politicians. Politicians who are less prone to cackling at inappropriate times, politicians who can string together coherent sentences and not sound like they're either talking to fifth graders or that they're a high schooler who didn't read the book they now have to give an oral book report on.
Why did the Democrats pick Kamala Harris if -- at the moment a Vice President is most needed -- they're looking to everyone and anyone but her?
Yes, she's a terrible candidate. She dropped out of the primaries very early on because no one cared for her. She even called President Biden a racist (likely the most accurate and honest thing she's ever said), and yet she agreed to be the VP on the ticket.
One has to assume she did some calculations -- Biden was 78 in 2020 when he was elected and it was obvious even then that, cognitively, Biden was not firing on all cylinders. She had to think there was a chance, even a slim one, that his health would not get him to 2024 and she'd be installed as the first black female president. She's an idiot, but she's not stupid.
Now imagine that -- as the entire Democratic Party, its propaganda arm (the media), and Left-wing talking heads are all in hysterics about Biden's ability to be the candidate -- that no one is really thinking of her.
If they were going to even consider her, if they believed she stood a snowball's chance in hell, the way forward would be clear: have Biden step aside, both as candidate and president. Put Kamala at the top of the ticket with a new Vice President (this, by the way, is the only way it seems they'd get to keep the millions in campaign funds sent to the Biden-Harris camp), and run her against Trump in November.
After all -- Trump is a liar. He's going to take away abortion rights. He's a dictator in the making. Running Kamala -- and winning with her -- against him should be a walk in the park.
Yet, I haven't seen that scenario offered in any serious Democrat circles. Anywhere.
And that's why Harris, and not Biden, is the biggest loser of Thursday's debate.
