Vice President Kamala Harris’ former communications director floated an alarming idea to elevate her to the presidency before Donald Trump takes office.
Jamal Simmons boldly suggested that President Joe Biden should resign in the coming months and let his number two take over following his stunning defeat at the hands of Trump.
“Joe Biden has been a phenomenal president, he has delivered on many of the promises he made,” said Simmons, who led Harris’ communications from January 2022 to January 2023. CNN State of the Union host Dana Bash.
‘There remains one promise that I could keep. Be a transitional figure.’
He hastily continued: ‘I could resign from the presidency in the next 30 days and make Kamala Harris president of the United States. It would absolve her of having to oversee the January 6 transition… of her own defeat.’
Simmons’ wild suggestion sparked a shocked reaction from the other panelists, with conservative Scott Jennings apparently holding back laughter at times.
Jamal Simmons is pictured with Vice President Kamala Harris. She made headlines Sunday for suggesting that President Joe Biden should resign and hand the presidency to her.
Simmons made his argument on social media (pictured) and during an appearance on CNN.
“Jamal is here writing the next season of ‘House of Cards,'” Jennings joked.
Simmons previously shared a similar sentiment on a post on Xprofessing that if Biden were to resign, he would “make it easier for the next woman to run.”
“This is something that is within Joe Biden’s control,” Simmons continued on the CNN panel. “And if he did, he would fulfill his last promise: he would give Kamala Harris the opportunity to be the 47th president of the United States of America.”
Simmons also joked that it would “disrupt all the Trump paraphernalia” since his team has already made many products with the number 47 prominently displayed.
Biden, 81, chose Harris, 60, as his running mate in August 2020, even though she attacked him in the second Democratic primary debate over his past opposition to busing Black children. to white-dominated schools to achieve desegregation.
When Biden defeated Trump four years ago, she became the first Black and Asian-American vice president in U.S. history.
When Joe Biden announced that he would not seek re-election on July 21 after enormous public and private pressure from Democrats.
Then-President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in at his first inauguration on January 20, 2017. He will be sworn in on the same day in 2025.
And when Biden announced he would not seek re-election on July 21 after enormous public and private pressure from Democrats, Harris was quickly elevated as the Democratic presidential candidate.
In the end, Harris was unable to build on the initial momentum she enjoyed from her sudden leap into the spotlight, losing to Trump even in all seven swing states.
Now that the votes are in, 2016 candidate Hillary Clinton and Harris lost to him by nearly identical margins in the Electoral College.
Harris gave her concession speech at Howard University in Washington DC, her alma mater, where she told her supporters that she would not “give up the fight that fueled this campaign.”
He also acknowledged President-elect Trump during a phone call Wednesday, saying he called for a peaceful transfer of power and encouraged him to be a president for all Americans.
With the final electoral college results now in, Trump has won 312 electoral votes to Harris’ 226.
Trump also won nearly 3.75 million more votes than Harris as of Sunday, meaning he will likely be the first Republican presidential candidate to win the popular vote since George W. Bush beat John Kerry in 2004.