When will Kamala Harris replace Joe Biden as President?

We should not forget that during the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries, questions about Joe Biden’s mental fitness were raised by some of his opponents. Those democrats saw what most republicans recognized – that Joe Biden frequently struggled to recall information and formulate sentences. No democrat called it dementia, but rather questioned whether Biden might be too old to be President of the United States. The fact that Biden would be the oldest American ever elected president was not lost on anyone.

Republicans had no hesitation labeling Biden as senile, suffering from the early stages of dementia, and unfit to serve. Some were more vicious and flamboyant with their accusations. Those were the “attacks” the liberal media would occasionally highlight as cause to dismiss as pure politics, any suggestion that Joe Biden was losing his faculties. Once Biden secured his party’s nomination, any talk of him lacking the mental fitness to serve as the 46th President of the United States was quickly sanitized with the lazy assertion that any appearances of early dementia were the result of a childhood stutter.

Since becoming president, Biden has shown the signs of old age consistently. His reoccurring forgetfulness, loss for words, reliance on notecards, and the Vice President most frequently seen slightly behind him and to the left, has not gone unnoticed by his base. Some democrats have been whispering since soon after Inauguration Day 2021 that it’s not a good visual – the President looks weak and sometimes lost. No democrat wants to call it dementia, just like no republican wanted to call it Alzheimer’s Disease when President Ronald Reagan was clearly losing his cognitive abilities, particularly during the last two years of his second term.

President Biden has been a gaffe generator his entire political career. He is known for the occasional absurdity, the inside voice escaping, the hot mic “this is a big fucking deal” type of talk that has been excused as ‘that’s just Joe.’ His salty words seasoned his Lunch Bucket Democrat image. There’s nothing wrong with any of that really. That’s one of the things Trump supporters loved about the former president. The straight talk, middle America language connects with what remains of the middle class.  But none of this is what is happening with President Biden today. He sometimes has difficulty remembering names of prominent people in his own administration. His mental capacity is sputtering as the result of growing old. On a personal level it is very humbling and sad. On a national security level, it’s downright dangerous.

The Afghanistan evacuation mess the world is witnessing has made the United States look weak and vulnerable. So many Americans are angry at the images they are seeing on the news. People just don’t understand how we got to the place where we’re relying on the Taliban for the safe passage of Americans to the airport in Kabul for evacuation. For every American that lived through the events of September 11, 2001, to have our president say “we are relying upon the Taliban” for Americans to pass through Taliban checkpoints safely is shocking. It challenges everything we have come to believe about this known terrorist organization. The Taliban enslaves women, rapes girls, beheads its opposition, and kills Americans – and somehow President Biden thinks he can trust them?

It seems inevitable. A prominent, nationally recognized democrat, or a group of similar democrats must stand up and speak to the president. It’s a difficult conversation to have when you must tell a senior citizen that he or she can no longer safely operate a motor vehicle, or live alone. But those tough conversations happen every day in America. President Biden has sought the White House since 1988. His presidential ambitions are even older. It will be hard to convince him that time has run out on his over 22-year-old dream that has finally been fulfilled. But somebody has to tell him – and it absolutely cannot be the vice president.

During his August 20, 2021 update on the Afghanistan evacuation, President Biden dutifully read off his teleprompter with Vice President Kamala Harris behind him and to the left. Even with her mask on, it was apparent she was holding her breath with his every word. As he stumbled and lost his place, Harris briefly looks down in embarrassment and brief defeat.

If Vice President Harris was ever recorded speaking honestly about the fitness of Joe Biden to continue serving as President of the United States, it seems likely that she would be voicing some reservations. How could she not? Next to the First Lady, Harris has unlimited access to Biden. She has witnessed all the behind-the-scene symptoms that are hidden from public view for good reason. But Kamala Harris cannot be the one to bring it up. If she’s the one to go to the President, people inside the administration that remain solidly behind Biden will think she is trying to push him out to fulfill her own ambitions. If she speaks publicly about any concerns she might have about Biden’s cognitive abilities, those same supporters, with their news media cohorts, will destroy her. They didn’t like her during the campaign, and they do not care for her now.