Sunday on ABC News’ “This Week,” Democracy for America CEO Yvette Simpson called on “overwhelmingly” unpopular President Joe Biden not to run for re-election so Vice President Kamala Harris could replace him.
Simpson argued that the “powerful” vice president “should be next” in line for president and lamented Biden’s failure to deliver on his promises.
“I think [Biden] shouldn’t be running,” Simpson stated. “I mean, you know, his numbers are very low, overwhelming. The poll showed that Democrats do not want him to run for office. I mean, when people gathered around him to run for president, there was an expectation that he would stop running, that he would actually empower someone to run. I don’t know who that person will be.”
Host George Stephanopoulos interrupted: “You’re not saying Kamala Harris is the heir apparent?”
“She should be,” Simpson replied. “I don’t know if she’s in a position to do that. She should have been powerfully positioned and able to be a person who could lead, and she was in the back. And I think she needs to be empowered to be the leader. She is powerful. She is young. She’s able to get the energy, but we haven’t seen her highly, and I don’t know why the Biden administration hasn’t positioned her that way. It must be her, because it would be an outrage to skip the vice president, especially the first African-American and Asian female vice president.”
She continued: “But they have to do a lot of work to get her in this seat so we can see her powerful, and that should be the work we should be doing right now – not sticking together with patches of Biden that are absolutely battered.” has not kept the promises he made in bipartisanship and getting the kind of work he said he was going to do.”
(h/t RCP video)
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