Will it be Biden-Harris or Harris-Biden?

The Biden-Harris ticket is quite a creature, the spearhead of a now hard-left, soft-on-crime party, though the candidates have a record established when the party was centrist. The obvious way to reconcile the candidates with their party’s radicalized base will be to enlist the power of a prospective Biden-Harris administration against thought-criminals rather than street criminals. At issue in the November election will not only be the question of whether America’s cities should be unpoliced but also whether voters are angry enough at Trump to overlook the likely consequences of Biden-Harris rule.

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Or would that be Harris-Biden rule? Joe Biden is not getting any more articulate or focused as the months go by. Harris, on the other hand, is as sharp as she is ambitious. She will be the Dick Cheney to Biden’s almost-octogenarian George W. Bush. And voters will have to reckon with that when they go to the polls, or whatever the replacement for going to the polls winds up being in the COVID era. Could Biden serve two terms, as every other president elected since World War Two was prepared to do? (Lyndon B. Johnson abandoned his re-election early, but it was hardly fated that he do so.) No — Biden would be at most a single-term president, in all likelihood, and he quite possibly wouldn’t make it through a single term, especially with Harris already anointed to succeed him. A scenario in which Biden resigns to make way for history, elevating Vice President Harris to become the first female president, is easy to imagine.

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