The Dems' 25th Amendment dilemma

 Joe Squires:

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So, Kamala Harris becoming the President via the 25th Amendment means the Democrats lose their tie-breaking vote in the Senate, and without a 51st vote, there is no way for the Democrats to break a tie in the Senate in order to confirm a replacement Vice President. They are effectively stuck.

But the question is also whether or not the Democrats even want Harris to be in charge. Her polling is absolutely dreadful. There are a lot of whispers in the background about her being unable to even run a political office. The Biden team doesn’t seem happy with her, Democratic leadership is staying silent about her, and the media is not even trying to cover her out of fear it would make her look worse (and, given her track record, it absolutely would).

She is probably the one person Democrats are less enthused about right now than Biden. And, between Biden, Harris, Nancy Pelosi, and Chuck Schumer, there doesn’t seem to be a sound leader among the Democrats in D.C. right now, and it’s pretty well exposed to the rest of the country at this point. That makes any public confidence in the party virtually zero right now, and if they somehow manage to scrape by in 2022, it will be with even tighter margins than we see now — and that’s without trying to remove Biden from power via the 25th Amendment. Can you imagine how badly the public trust in the Democrats will tank if they are forced to remove their “moderate, sensible” president from office?

No party deserves this dilemma more. 

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