Biden’s 2024 campaign will be Kamala Harris’s Trojan horse
Zachary Faria
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President Joe Biden announced that he would run for reelection, but his 2024 campaign will more likely only serve as a vehicle to let Kamala Harris become president.
Biden could not even go longer than a day into his reelection campaign without his administration throwing doubt on his ability to serve four more years. When asked if Biden would serve a full second term, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said she would “not get ahead of the president” and that it was “something for him to decide.”
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That blunder (which Jean-Pierre later tried to walk back) makes everything quite clear. Biden is 80 years old today. He will turn 82 shortly after the 2024 election. Were he to win, he would turn 86 at the end of his term.
On top of that, he looks and speaks worse than his age. He stumbles through speeches and refuses to do interviews because they make it a bit too clear that he is not mentally up to the job.
Whether his health issues force him to step aside, or he simply steps down, Biden is not likely to finish a second four-year term. He would not have much incentive to serve as a lame-duck president, especially if Republicans were to retake the Senate — a strong possibility, given their favorable 2024 map.
That brings us to Vice President Kamala Harris, who, like Biden, stumbles through speeches and embarrasses herself when speaking to journalists. Unlike Biden, she can’t blame it on her age. Harris is simply a transparently inauthentic politician who desperately tries to sound smarter and more profound than she is. She couldn’t win the presidency on her own because she is even more unpopular than the already unpopular Biden.
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Therefore, Biden’s 2024 campaign will likely only serve as the stepping stone for Harris to take over the job. Harris is the Democratic Party’s heir apparent, but she wouldn’t be able to fend off a primary challenge, let alone win a general election. Her only chance is for Biden to step down during his lame-duck second term. That would put her into power without a messy primary fight. This would give Harris an incumbency advantage heading into the subsequent election. It is the only workable path for her.
Biden admitted back in 2019 that he would only serve one term if elected because he viewed himself “as a bridge” for “an entire generation of leaders you saw stand behind me.” The writing is now on the wall. Biden’s 2024 campaign is really Harris’s 2024 campaign, just with a less off-putting paint job.