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‘Jumped From An Internet Meme’: Former Harris Comms Director Suggests How Biden Can ‘Disrupt’ Trump Transition

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A former aide to Vice President Kamala Harris suggested Sunday she and President Joe Biden could “dominate” press coverage if Biden resigned from office.

Former President Donald Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris, securing the 270 electoral votes necessary to win the presidency early Wednesday morning. Jamal Simmons, a former communications director for Harris, said the move to resign the presidency could “disrupt” Trump’s transition.

“Joe Biden has been a phenomenal president. He lived up to so many of the promises made. There is one promise left to fulfill: Being a transitional figure. He can resign the presidency in the next 30 days then Kamala Harris becomes president,” Simmons said. “This would absolve her from having to oversee the Jan. 6 transition of her own defeat. It would make sure that it would dominate the news at a point where Democrats have to learn drama and transparency and doing things in the public. This is a moment to change the perspective of how Democrats operate.”

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“This has now jumped from an internet meme to a Sunday morning show,” “State of the Union” co-host Dana Bash said, while Republican strategist Scott Jennings joked that Simmons came up with a plotline for the Netflix series “House of Cards.”

Biden revealed he would not accept the Democratic Party’s nomination for president in a July 21 post on X, following it up with a second post endorsing Harris for the Democratic nomination to replace him in the 2024 election against Trump.

“This is something that is in Joe Biden’s control and if he did it, again, it would fulfill his promise and give Kamala Harris the chance to be the 47th president of the United States of America,” Simmons claimed. “It would trump all of Donald Trump’s paraphernalia, he would have to rebrand everything. And it would make it easier for the next woman who runs for president, to not have to worry about the horrible weight of being the first.”

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.