Jamal Simmons, a former communications director for Kamala Harris, made an unlikely suggestion on CNN’s “State of the Union” about how the vice president might still have a chance of becoming president in 2024. Simmons proposed that Biden could resign the presidency in the next 30 days, which would make Harris the president of the United States. Simmons argued that this move would keep Harris from having to oversee “her own defeat” when the presidential election is certified in the Senate, and “it would dominate the news at a point where Democrats have to learn” to grab the public’s attention. However, there is no evidence that Biden would consider leaving office before the end of his term. Others have joked about Biden clearing a potential path for Harris, such as a co-host of “Pod Save America” saying that Jimmy Carter, who has been in hospice care for over a year, had said he was hanging on to vote for Harris. Simmons said that this would be a moment “to change the entire perspective of how Democrats operate,” but not everyone on the panel was convinced, with one saying Simmons was “writing the new season of ‘House of Cards.’”
2020 wasn’t progressives putting out a bunch of candidates.
It was like 5+ neoliberals all claiming to be progressive in hyper specific areas, then all dropping and endorsing Biden within 48 hours of Super Tuesday so he’d inherit all those single issues voters and look dominat sonthe DNC could call the race two weeks into the primary.
As much as moderates bitch about “single issue voters” it’s the only way Joe Biden won a primary after 4 decades of trying.
Warren isn’t a neoliberal, and splitting the progressive vote only needed 2.
Which is why progressives need one candidate.
Warren was a useful idiot who thought her and the Biden/Clinton wing was on the same team because they have the same letter by their names and Bernie didn’t.