Who Will Be Kamala Harris’ VP Pick If Joe Biden Drops Out? (Reader Poll – Deadline Extended After Biden Drops Out)
With Axios reporting Joe’s departure could come as early as this weekend, this choice could come soon.
UPDATE Sunday, June 22, 2:30 p.m. – In light of Joe Biden announcing he is dropping out of the race, we are extending the time to vote on this poll until midnight (Pacific time) on Tuesday night, June 23.
This is a FLASH POLL in light of Axios reporting that top Democrats expect Biden to announce his withdrawal from the race this weekend.
There are several assumptions built into the poll, first and foremost that Kamala Harris would be the presidential nominee if Biden withdraws. Putting aside logistical issues like access to campaign donations, it’s hard to see any other choice. There would be absolute hell to pay within the Democrat Party if it passed her over for anyone who is not a black woman, and the only viable alternative would be Michelle Obama, who has repeatedly said she doesn’t want the job (but perhaps Michelle for VP, which is a do nothing job but would formalize Obama family input?). Also, I have eliminated any of the many Democrat Senators up for reelection, which narrows the field for VP.
The poll is open until Sunday night, July 21 23 at midnight Pacific Time.
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paul ryan
For KH to choose Hillary is to sign her own death warrant.
Best choice, Dylan Mulvaney.
Harmless to KH and panders to the loons.
I had to pick HRC for the lolz — literally, the feedback loop of cackles would trigger an 8.1 earthquake and cast CA into the Pacific Ocean.
She can’t pick Shapiro, even though he tops the vote list at this writing, because the Hamashole’s rank antisemitism has burnt that bridge behind them, right to the water.
That’s precisely why it would be a good idea for her to pick him, in order to repair that damage. Because once Jews vote Republican once and are not struck by lightning, they’re likely to make a habit of it.
Pritzker, Polis, and Ossoff are also at least nominally Jewish.
Hank Johnson, Jr
How many votes will he flip?
He has as much chance at flipping votes as Guam does of flipping over. What an idiot.
What an idiot. If Trump loses this election, it will be because of idiots like you.
tulsi gabbard time
Tulsi has way too much class for that
Tulsi won’t go anywhere near there. Shapiro.
Most of them would not accept the spot.
Not because they wouldn’t want to be Vice President.
But because they know Kamala is a moron and a loser, and nobody that accepted a VP nomination and lost had much of a career afterwards.
And even KH wouldn’t be stupid enough to pick Hillary as her VP. She doesn’t want to sleep with one eye open every night.
Pete or someone who will never have a real chance to be elected.
This is a throw away.
No one with a real opportunity to be elected wants to lose.
How many times do you think they will be asked, “Why didn’t you notice the President was on the decline? Then why did you say he was fine?”
Harris will Pardon Biden and his full family as part of the deal.
Part of the deal is that she will not run in 2028.
But that was part of Joe’s deal as well. Then he “altered the deal.”
How’s that working out for him?
Jury’s still out (until he wakes up dead of
nembutalCOVID).Being her VP nominee is not a bad idea after all. Should Kamala win, she could easily be impeached or forced to resign, allowing the ascension of the “anointed one 2.0.”
Michelle
Willie Brown
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13604289/kamala-harris-affair-san-francisco-willie-brown.html
So he can be on her staff for a change?
How about a spew warning next time?
Great comment!
Well-played, cowboy.
Any POC with lots of pronouns.
Hard too tell it depends on how much wheeling and dealing she has to do.
Ron Jeremy
OK. That’s funny and don’t ask me how I know who he is.
No way, didn’t they just throw a case out because he has dementia?
Oh, never mind. Dementia is the new virility.
Dementia is all the rage — it’s the hot new box for Democrat candidates to check.
A better area of speculation may be if Harris will be the eventual nominee.
ironically
if its a male
we’ll have to ask if he slept with her
( hmmm or maybe even a female)
And then do contact tracing
Which is why Buttigieg is the best option for her.
Yes.
Because of her DEI.
There is only one pick who makes Kamala Harris competitive, and she isn’t on that list
Taylor Swift
TS will be 35 a month before the Inauguration, and nobody can mobilize young women better than her. Think about it. She does free concert rallies every day in a swing state which are massive voter registration drives for young women. Millions will attend those rallies and be pestered to registered to vote. Single women vote (D) by 80%, but the problem for the Dems is turnout and lack of registration of the young ones. Taylor Swift can fix that problem for them.
Actually would be a boost for her campaign, lol
and she has more experience running things than Kamala.
Honestly, I do think that a business woman like Taylor would be a better president than Kamala.. than Joe… than most politicians, actually.
Okay. I wonder what her inauguration gown would look like.
I was thinking of one of the Kardashians, for that reason (and others).
Oh, God, no, not if you have seen/heard about her latest video (since I don’t follow her it might not be her latest). She does a zombie and slut act- not any better role model than Beyonce and her worthless lyrics – then she is recorded in one of her concerts yelling repeatedly “F– the patriarchy!” One second thought, I guess she would fit right in but….
No way in the world should this woman receive the top spot!
It is rare for her to say anything that makes sense,
Why list Obama? I don’t think he can be VP.
What about Letitia James ? Alvin Bragg? Lori Lightfoot? London Breed? BRANDON Johnson?
The 23rd amendment prevents someone from being elected as president.:
Section 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this Article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.
Actually, the key text pertaining to the Vice Presidency is in the 12th amendment, which reads in relevant part:
“[N]o person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.”
The argument is that the above language, when read together with the 23rd amendment, prohibits anyone who was previously elected twice as President from running for the Vice Presidency.
And although I agree with that argument, the language is a bit ambiguous and has never been interpreted by a court.
Correct obama can not be VP
What do you think is ambiguous about it? It couldn’t be clearer. The 23rd explicitly makes him ineligible to the presidency; therefore the 12th makes him ineligible to the vice presidency as well. How else could one possibly read it?
I’m sure a federal government who misreads “infringed” and “congress shall make no law” every day could manage it.
The 23rd makes him ineligible to *be elected* to the presidency. It says nothing about succession to the presidency or being president.
That’s obviously not what the writers intended, but that doesn’t always seem to matter anymore.
What do you think the word “ineligible” means? It means “incapable of being elected“. The 23rd amendment makes him “constitutionally ineligible to the office of president”. The 12th says anyone who is that is also ineligible to the office of vice president. Therefore he can’t succeed to the presidency, and thus can’t be president.
The most he can be is acting president, by being speaker of the house when the presidency and vice presidency both become vacant at once. But an acting president is not president.
Don’t forget Fani Willis.
I’m trying to do so
I was laughing my heiny off at that one.
Of course, just because the Constitution says he can’t run doesn’t mean Kamala won’t pick him.
Sure he can. We long since ceased to be a nation of laws.
He was unable to demonstrate that he was, at any time in his life, a US citizen but the courts just dismissed all the challenges for lack of standing.
Kamala is an anchor baby. By the 14th Amendment, and the controlling opinion on it in the Elk v Wilkins case, she was born with the nationality of one/both of her parents – and NOT US citizenship. But, no one imagines we obey the Constitution any more.
Besides, the term limit for POTUS is only for POTUS, doesn’t say anything about being VP. So, clearly, no prohibition on a 2 term POTUS from later serving as VP.
Bonus: the 22nd Amendment only prohibits a person from being ELECTED President more than twice. So, if Barry were to become someone’s VP and that person kicked off, he could then become POTUS again – since he’d “become” President due to the death or resignation of the President.
Anyone can be a lawyer if they try 🙂 All you have to do is bend and twist the meaning of words to pretend they mean whatever you want them to mean.
But, really, its the 12th Amendment that prevents Obama from being VP. Because, being unable to demonstrate that he was actually born in America he can’t prove that he’s a natural born citizen. Oh, and then there’s that pesky term limit thing to boot.
Every word you just wrote is utter bullshit.
Harris was born a US citizen. The 14th amendment explicitly says so. Her parents’ citizenship is irrelevant to that. Whether she also had citizenship in her parents’ home countries was and is entirely up to those countries; it has no relevance. There is no reason a dual or triple citizen could not be president.
And not only is Elk v Wilkins not a “controlling opinion” on anything, its ruling doesn’t say what you claim anyway.
There is no doubt that 0bama was born a US citizen. No, he didn’t prove it at first, because no law required him to do so, and no other candidate had ever been asked to. And because he felt like messing with his opponents’ heads. But he did eventually release the real birth certificate, and no, it is not a forgery, and anyone who claims it is one is a lunatic.
He was eligible for his two terms. Having been elected twice, he is no longer eligible for the presidency, and therefore he is also ineligible for the vice presidency. There is no way for him to become president again. Even if he were to become Speaker and then the president and VP were both to die or resign, he would only become acting president, not actually president.
Her parents’ citizenships are irrelevant to her US citizenship but they are extremely relevant – and determinative – to her status as “natural born citizen”.
No one with a foreign parent, or a parent with any citizenship in addition to American, is a “natural born citizen”.
A “natural born citizen” is one born to circumstances that are so obvious that no laws or explanations or thinking is required to understand their citizenship. A foreign parent – or even just a parent with dual citizenship – brings a circumstance where the citizenship of the child is not natural, in any sense, and is only found via explicit law.
This ain’t rocket surgery.
No. United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898) establish that anyone born on U.S. soil and subject to its jurisdiction is a natural-born citizen, regardless of parental citizenship.
We can revisit the case in SCOTUS and I think we should to do away with the anchor baby thing but as of now it’s settled law.
No, they’re not.
That is not true, has never been true, and has no support whatsoever among anyone who knows anything about it. Nobody even heard of that theory before the attack on 0bama’s eligibility.
No, that is not what it means, has never been what it means, and this is literally the first time I’ve even heard it suggested. “Natural born citizen” was obviously intended simply as an American equivalent of the term “natural born subject” in English law, a term that was familiar to anyone in the 1780s with an interest in law.
You’re giving me nightmares, Grizz.
I believe Obama could be VP. If something happened to the President they would skip over him to the Speaker. This way Obama could effectively run the Oval Office for 15-20yrs and complete the destruction.
Nope, the 12th amendment prevents anyone who is ineligible to be president from being V.P.
A Complete Idiot.
There. You all now have the answer.
One would not one only partially an idiot. The nation deserves the best, you know!
Thinking Kamala will be the president on the ticket is a hell of an assumption. More likely they wipe the slate clean
“Gee, it’s a wonder she fell down the stairs right after she pushed Slow Joe down them. What are the odds that karma would act that fast?”
Joe grabbed her as he fell. Yes. That’s it! Grabber her by the pu… grabbed her by the belt. Or something.
Biden campaign goes MAGA
https://x.com/Breaking911/status/1813983777242394968
I don’t think she inherits the top of the ticket automatically
True.
But she is the only one who can inherit the “Biden-Harris” $150 + million war chest. It cannot go to anyone else. That’s why the brazillionaires* stopped donating.
This term is used to confuse AOC and Harris. They believe it refers to people with lots of money from Brazil.
Kamala will probably pick Joe Biden to be her VP. She’ll cite his experience and his vigor. And he’ll accept because he will have already forgotten that he was president. And the MSM will promote the team as if they were greatest thing in the world.
Interesting that Kamala who OUTLOUD wouldnt be considered “really black”
is not attacked for that
we all know the racist criteria that is used by poc against other people of color
the attacks of …you had it easier b/c you could switch back and forth between cliques with your (high yello etc) and alll that racist garbage we have to listen to
so why dont they attack harris with that?
why didnt they attack obama for having a white mom???
sure we keep taking the high road and losing
they keep fighting the dirty fight and winning
everything is about race with the left
why let them slide on this???
Because our side is even more gutless than theirs.
She’s “Blacker” than 0bama, who was considered “Black” enough. Unlike him, her white ancestry is no greater than that of most black Americans, and she came by it the same way as they did; and her black ancestors were slaves in British North America, just not in a colony that joined the USA.
TBH I really don’t see the reason for a change at this late date. Harris isn’t any more popular than Biden, she’s less talented as a politician and the poll numbers v Trump are comparable to Biden. Unless they go whole Hogg and get Biden out of the WH by convincing him to resign or using the 25th A then everyone sees this for what it is, a transparent attempt to hold power.
I seriously doubt Kamala will be on the ticket at all.
I picked Newsom for the lulz because it would be hilarious to see him have to play second fiddle to her.
Kamala is still a CA resident as far as I know. Picking Newsom would be electoral college suicide.
Wouldn’t prevent Kamala Harris from getting CA’s EVs, just Newsome. So she could have JD Vance as her VP…
Willie Brown.
Harris speaking right now. Unlikeable with a fetish for Project 2025. The sycophants in the audience love it.
Can you imagine Gretchen Whitmer? Two women (a problem right there, given the women are ambitious and such) on the ticket, and one of them dumb and the other conniving. Would the USSS have to remove all the steak knives from the White House and lock away the rat poison?
Forget about Warnock or Ossoff. They are both Democrat Senators in Georgia. “If” elected, they would have to resign and would allow a Republican Governor to appoint their replacement. That could swing the Senate to the GOP.
Harris will be the VP pick, Hillary will be the nominee
Bite your tongue!
Seriously, has ANY presidential candidate ever won against a presidential candidate they previously lost to? This is like the biggest hex possible.
Yes, it’s happened four times, but the last time was in 1892, when Grover Cleveland made a comeback to defeat Benjamin Harrison, who had defeated him in 1888. Supposedly Frances Cleveland, on leaving the White House in 1889, told the staff to “take good care of all the furniture and ornaments in the house, and not let any of them get lost or broken”, because she’d be back in four years.
Can’t imagine Shapiro or Whitmer or Newsome giving up their current gigs for a chance at VP nomination, when all three have a shot at being on the top of the ticket in four years…
Not a foregone conclusion that she’s in but assuming she is it needs to be a splash that everyone on their side would agree with. This late in the game a relative unknown coupled with the low Kamala sentiment would be worse than a dead Biden.
The only one that fits the bill in that list as a splash is Michel Obama.
You think Big Mike’s gonna take 2nd place?
Missing the obvious in the comments: Michelle gives the Dems the ability to wave the “Historic” flag of first female minority President and VP. (cue the media swooning) Any criticism of either of them is automatically r—-st, sexist, or whatever other ..ist they want. Sure, neither of them could manage a public swimming pool, but that hasn’t been a problem for the last three years, and President Obama will be right there, willing to help for the next eight years, then the eight years after that (as they see it).
Barack 0bama is ineligible. “But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.”
Newsome is eligible but would be a problem, since in a close election they couldn’t risk that many electors, especially when it’s likely that the Reps will keep the House (at least by state delegation) and take the senate. Florida for Trump/Desantis or Trump/Rubio would have been manageable, but California for Harris/Newsome would be difficult.
Though if she did go that route, and they won, she could just move her residence to DC, since she’s been living there for the past four years anyway. The move would happen after November 5, so they know the result, but before December 17, which is when the actual election is held.
They were say that Obama the Liar could go the Whitehouse everyday and hold their hands as they pretended to be in charge
Shapiro would be a logical pick for her, since (1) Pennsylvania may be close, and (2) he would help shore up the Jewish vote, which the Dems are in great danger of losing.
But, weighing against that is the Jewish voters may mistake him for Ben Shapiro and be repelled.
It doesn’t even matter who the puppets they pick.
Only voted as it stands
Might have added Harris is booted too
Been saying Mooch but not seeing 2 women of color on a ticket, the Marxists are racist too and lots would never vote for that.
Shapiro is JINO I suspect but would be another Leftists block to vote.
Bozo the clown
About presidential nominees, it used to be said that Democrats fall in love and Republicans fall in line. Well, we’re going to see exactly how it works for Democrats in about 4-weeks. It will be an open convention, a genuine free-for-all the likes of which hasn’t been seen in the US since the 1950s. Harris would have to win half +1 of 3,934 delegates. After that, thee are (roughly) another 740 ‘Superdelegates’ who get to start voting. They’ll keep voting until someone wins a simple majority. There is no way to guarantee Harris will win. It really will be up to the Biden Delegates to pick someone.
I’m going the other way than some people in these comments.
He hasn’t dropped out yet, he’s not dropping now. Mr. Biden is the Democrats ride or die in November.
In extremis, Democrats can drop Joe… like a deer.
OK, I voted Hillary from those listed; because I figured if the fall of the American Republic is going to go all 68 AD like the Roman Empire, she would be the person to kick it off.
In reality, my first thought though was soon-to-be-former US Senator Robert Menendez. A Harris/Menendez ticket would perfectly encapsulate the DEI, corruption, and sexual mayhem that our country has become.
Subotai Bahadur
Kamala Harris will nominate whoever James Clyburn tells her he wants her to nominate.
I saw this discussion elsewhere.. one person opined that the VP would be a throw away nomination, someone that would not be a real contender on a 2028 ticket. That is when Pete Buttigieg’s name came up.
They are all losers in my book.. Kamala’s appeal is only skin and gender deep. Pete has name recognition and LGBT creds. Pretty low bar.
One name, a guy that many dems and the media billed as a natural, rising star, Cory Booker. I recall few others that have fallen further and faster than him.
He was never the same after the Kavanaugh confirmation process.
Howard Dean.
Yeahhhhh!
Democrats pretending a mini-process is democratic, when it’s actually the result of a coup.
me.
I will rule you one day, I promise.
Nancy? Is that you?
Why TF is anyone giving that maroon Shapiro any serious looks? He’s barely able to tie his own shoes.
Easy to control.
Make it a girl and make her gay!
Eric Cartman?
A one-eyed trans BIPOC with type 2 diabetes, HIV+ and on federal assistance.
Bill Kristol.
If it’s Kamala, they would not push Joe onto the ice flow. No point- it doesn’t help the down ticket dems as she polls worse.
Which begs the question- and as dumb as they are- they are NOT so dumb as to kick Joe off and have a feeding frenzy of unlike-able- unviable power brokers.
Newsome signed that trans-kiddie-groomer bill- which now makes him totally unviable on the national state (as if he ever were). Did they trick him to take him out of the running????
Tulsi Gabbard is the only one who will pull votes from Trump and win down ticket votes- but since she’s in the wilderness to the dems and not a power broker- they will never put her on there.
This is the problem of being a crime syndicate rather than a populist driven arm of the voters in vying for a seat in a representative republic. Fat and powerful brokers stand in the way of making the right choice. So they are stuck. If they are stuck with Kamala, they may as well stay stuck with Joe because we haven’t even seen the depths of her in-abilities.
Not sure why anyone is assuming Kamala would be the D’s nominee if Biden drops out.
The only person that ever actually liked her was Willie Brown, and though I’m sure he continues to vote from the grave, he doesn’t carry as much clout in D politics as he used to.
Plus: They’re trying to kick the senile pedophile to the curb because they know he’ll lose in a landslide. If he were up in the polls, they’d still be supporting him. Most polls are showing Trump doing better vs Kamala than vs Sniffy McGroper Biden.
Anyone selected must not overshadow her and be willing to spend years in anonymity for a shot That’s a lot of money to re-launder.
Two comments mixed up…. oops…. last sentence counts. The first was what a VP pick must be.
Dave from the movie Dave.
Oprah
I know this can’t happen, but Bill just to eff with Hillary.
Mark Kelly would be a good choice. for her I think. I don’t think she will be able to get one of her top flight choices. I am very impressed with Gov Shapiro but I don’t think whe would go that direction
He is certainly a sight better than our last governor, Wolf.
Saw comments on Newsmax ir will be a open convention for Democrats
And so my prediction might come true neither Sundowner nor Harris will be nomination
No one likes her
I don’t think that Harris will be the Nominee, they will bring in Hairgel and keep her as V.P.
Is she’s not the nominee black turnout goes down and they lose. Nor can the ticket have both people from the same state as their “home” state.
The “Dirty Dozen”. I didn’t want to vote for any of them. Most, if not all, belong in a prison cell.
Andy Beshear
Any sane democrat with future political ambitions will wait until 2028. With that caveat, if I had to bet – which I wouldn’t – I’d say it’ll be Pete Buttigieg.
If it’s a Governor of one of the “swing” or competitive states this cycle, I’d say it’s Josh Shapiro. If they go for a Democrat governor in a red state it’s either Any Beshear or Roy Cooper.
But it’ll be a caucasian guy. They’d be insane to bet the election on a Harris/Whitmer ticket.
Gavin Newsom will sit this cycle out, unless he can wrest the nomination away from Harris. He can’t be her veep for the same reason Trump wasn’t going to pick Marco Rubio, Ron DeSantis, or Byron Donalds. The top and bottom of the ticket can’t be from the same state.
They’ll be watching the polling in the next couple of weeks to see what the strategy will be.
It doesn’t even matter who the puppets are.