Biden should REPLACE Kamala Harris on the ballot with Hillary Clinton, Washington Post columnist claims

Joe Biden is being encouraged to replace Kamala Harris with a blast from the past to boost his floundering chances for re-election.

Biden, who has struggled in the polls both nationally and in key swing states, has left Democrats wondering whether major changes are needed to defeat Donald Trump in November.

Questions and doubts exist about the health and ability to carry out the job of Biden, at 81 years old, the oldest president in American history.

Harris – the first female and first black vice president in American history – has also had a tough time. Polls show that a majority of Americans think she would not be a good president.

Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Kathleen Parker wrote Tuesday that Democrats should look to their recent past for a new vice president.

According to a new poll released last week, only about a third of Americans believe Vice President Kamala Harris would win the presidential election.

In her pieceshe wondered why no one has put forward Hillary Clinton as a potential running mate.

Clinton was, of course, First Lady, Secretary of State and United States Senator before losing to Donald Trump in 2016.

Parker argues that Harris lacks “competence,” which turns off voters who see Biden’s “steady decline over the years,” and that Clinton could offer reassurance despite being 76 years old herself.

“If Biden is forced to resign, even those who did not vote for Clinton would have confidence in her ability to keep the country on track,” Parker wrote.

She also believes that Clinton’s 2016 loss — which she has spent the past eight years playing the blame game about — still confuses her and leaves her with unfinished business.

“At 76, she may not want anything to do with it, but it’s hard to retire when you feel like your job isn’t done,” she wrote, referring to Clinton becoming a candidate in a New York congressional district supported firing “Squad” member Jamaal Bowman. .

Parker, the Pulitzer Prize winner, called it impossible to ignore Biden’s “stumbles, his search for words, his occasional blank stare.”

“It’s just a thought, but worse ideas have had deplorable success,” she wrote of Clinton.

She admits there are “risky” downsides to her plan, including alienating black voters, but says Democrats must do so if they want to “advance a worldview consistent with their values.”

Parker said Biden should appease Harris and her supporters by making the vice president his new attorney general.

A Politico/Morning Consult poll shows that only 34 percent believe Harris would likely win an election for president if she were the candidate. Fifty-seven percent of voters think this is unlikely.

The number of undecideds includes 31 percent of Democrats and 62 percent of Independents.

The numbers indicate that Harris, Biden’s second-in-command, would struggle if she had to replace the president as the Democratic nominee.

Harris also faces skepticism from voters about whether she would be a good president. Only 40 percent believe she would be a good president, while 51 percent do not. Nine percent did not know or had no opinion.

Fifty-one percent of independents believe she would not be a good president and even sixteen percent of Democrats doubt a successful Harris presidency.

Harris’ polling problems show that Biden may have picked the wrong Democrat as his vice president, as more than half of Americans don’t think she would make a good president.

But voters in the poll appear slightly more conflicted when asked whether Biden should replace Harris on the ticket.

Thirty-six percent of voters believe Biden should replace her with another Democrat, while 39 percent say Biden should not replace her. Twenty-six percent did not know or had no opinion.

Harris continues to suffer from low approval ratings, currently at 42 percent, which is slightly higher than in previous polls. A Redfield & Wilton Strategies poll in May showed her with just a 37 percent approval rating.

Her failed 2020 presidential campaign and performance as vice president have left the country divided over her political skills.

Fifty-two percent of voters in the poll believe Harris is smart, 47 percent believe she is level-headed and 45 percent believe she is prepared. Only 44 percent described her as honest.

Despite her low poll numbers, Harris’ strong name identification with Democrats gives her a significant lead over other possible 2028 presidential candidates.

Among Democrats, 41 percent chose Harris as the hypothetical candidate in 2028. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg came in second with 15 percent, followed closely by California Governor Gavin Newsom with 14 percent.

The rest of the potential 2028 Democratic presidential candidates remained in the single digits with Democrats. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan with 5 percent, Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona with 4 percent and Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro with 2 percent.

Seventeen percent of Democrats didn’t know or had no opinion.

The Politico/Morning Consult poll surveyed 3,996 registered voters from May 28 to 29 and has a margin of error of 2 percentage points.