'Just want this to stop': Consensus of Dems unite behind Kamala Harris if Biden exits race

20 July 2024

Vice President Kamala Harris is emerging as Democrats' top choice for a new 2024 presidential nominee in the event that President Joe Biden decides to step aside, according to a new report.

On Saturday, CNN reported that "exhaustion is gelling into consensus" among top Democrats who have spent the last several weeks bickering about who would replace Biden at the top of the ticket, should he decide to leave the 2024 race. One unnamed "Democratic operative" referenced a viral video of Harris whimsically telling a story about her mother ("you think you just fell out of a coconut tree?”) in relaying their support for the vice president.

“F— it, I’m coconut pilled," the operative said. "I just want this to stop."

At 59 years old, Harris is more than 20 years Biden's junior, and already has national name recognition and has been previously vetted by the American electorate when she was selected as Biden's running mate. Democrats are also conscious of the fact that the election is roughly 100 days away and organizers won't have enough time to rally the base around an untested, unknown candidate.

"I do believe it has to be the vice president. She’s campaigning vigorously under the mantle and she’s the natural successor," an unnamed Democratic member of the House anonymously told CNN. "It’s going to be important in the scenario that the president isn’t the nominee that we rally around her immediately."

Should Biden end up exiting the race, its unlikely that the Democratic donor class will rally around Harris. In an Instagram Live video posted early Friday morning, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) warned her followers that wealthy megadonors are likely to push for "removing the whole ticket" in favor of nominating someone else entirely.

"A huge amount of the donor class and a huge amount of these elites, and a huge amount of these folks in these rooms that I see that are pushing for President Biden not to be the nominee, also are not interested in seeing the vice president being the nominee," she said. "Will they win out on that? I don't know. But I am here to tell you: do not take that for granted."

Chris LaCivita, who is a senior advisor to former President Donald Trump's 2024 campaign, recently hinted that he's already hatching a strategy for how to respond to a possible Harris nomination. He said that even if the vice president is at the top of the ticket, the focus will still be on Biden in that Trump will be demanding he resign from the presidency altogether ahead of the November election.

"You can’t say you’re cognitively impaired and not able to run for president and then continue to be president,” LaCivita said. “If you’re going to step down as a candidate for president because of cognitive reasons, then you have to step down as president.”

Biden, who is currently recovering from Covid-19 at his home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, has insisted that he will remain in the race through November. This announcement prompted another wave of Democrats in both the House and Senate asking him to step aside.

Click here to read CNN's report in full.

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