Careful Kamala, Those Leaders Who Took Out Biden Are Watching
What unmade Joe Biden, may unmake Kamala Harris.
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To the surprise of nobody, President Joe Biden called it quits on Sunday, dropping out of the campaign for President while attempting to remain President for the remaining six months.
Whether he is successful in that strategy remains to be seen. Another stumbling public performance or two and the 25th amendment will be invoked to install Kamala Harris as President for the rest of the term. Biden is very likely to pardon his son and brother as he exits. While he has promised not to do so, President Biden knows this is the only way Hunter stays out of prison—so he will pull a Gerald Ford and protect his family “for the good of the country.”
Back to Kamala Harris, she immediately began acting like the de facto Democratic candidate for President even though she is far from locking up that position. Don’t believe me? Just look at who hasn’t endorsed her: Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jefferies.
I know that Biden endorsed her—that is of little value now that he is headed for a rocking chair. And I won’t spend time discussing the Clintons, as they play a Machiavellian style of politics that can never be taken at face value. Rest assured, Hillary is attempting to pull in every IOU and pressure point for a backroom deal at the convention to be the candidate. She is desperately attempting one last run at the brass ring—especially with Trump as the target since she wants to erase her failure in 2016. Given how abjectly terrible Kamala Harris has been at being Vice President, anything is possible next month at the Democratic Convention.
Democrats know that taking the nomination from Harris will have to be handled delicately. The party of “identity politics” cannot risk alienating their base so close to the election, and rest assured that the king-maker at the convention, former President Obama, will decide who gets the chance to make a run at Trump.
Unfortunately for Hillary, there is no love lost between the Clintons and Obamas—so it will be hard to see a situation where Obama lets such a divisive figure at the top of the ticket. Hillary has done herself no favors these past eight years either, being an election denier herself, and clinging to the hoax—funded through her campaign—that Trump was beholden to Russia. It is difficult to see a scenario where Hillary Clinton rises from the ashes like a phoenix to challenge Trump.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump is at the apex of his popularity, having survived the assassination attempt and overseeing a well-run GOP convention last week in Milwaukee. Obama unleashed his sycophants to attack Biden when it became clear that Trump would crush him. The result was not hard to predict: Joe stepped aside.
Now, the steady drip of leaks and whispers about the frailty of Joe Biden may morph into questions of competency for Kamala Harris if the smoke filled room at the Democratic convention decides that is best. Kamala better do what she hasn’t done in three and a half years as Vice President, shine at public appearances, avoid word salads when the red light of cameras turn on, and stop her “nails on the chalkboard” cackling when she gets nervous. Otherwise, she will be cast aside as easily as Joe Biden was!