Newsom won reelection easily and now has the luxury of turning his ambitious eyes completely toward the White House. The question then becomes, will his party turn its eyes toward him as the person who might save it from the Biden-Harris dilemma it is surely about to face?
If the answer is “yes,” the “solution” is really not complicated at all. In one scenario, Biden could ask Harris to resign and replace her with Newsom, who then becomes the heir apparent for 2024. Or Biden could replace Harris with Newsom and then resign himself, making Newsom the president before 2024 and arming him with the full force of the Oval Office.
[The VP is an elected position, so Biden can’t “replace” Harris without her resigning the office first. What are the odds of that happening? And MacKinnon seems to forget that both chambers of Congress have to approve any mid-term VP appointment by the terms of the 25th Amendment. Would this even pass muster with Democrats when Biden would be pushing a black woman out of the succession in favor of a white man — a white man who nearly got recalled in California a year or so ago? — Ed]
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