America is about to find out a lot more about Kamala Harris.
One of her biggest secrets is about to hit the public in a massive bombshell.
And D.C. is going to be in shock over the news.
Kamala Harris was publicly a loyal second-in-command to Joe Biden, but privately there were questions swirling throughout his term about his fitness to serve as president.
Even as Democrats publicly took offense to Republicans raising questions about Biden’s age, privately there were many Democrats who felt the same way.
And now it is coming out that Kamala Harris’s closest aides were strategizing as far back as 2023 about how to get Biden out of the presidential race.
They apparently felt that he would not be able to run a proper campaign and therefore would not be a competitive candidate, which would necessitate swapping him out for someone else.
Ultimately that is what happened after his debate performance stoked major controversy around his fitness to serve.
But there was talk much earlier than that about having Kamala Harris, or perhaps even someone else, step into the race in place of Biden.
According to The Guardian, “Democratic officials staged ‘hush-hush talks’ to plan for Joe Biden’s withdrawal as the party’s presidential nominee as early as 2023, says a new book.”
“Citing two unnamed sources, authors Jonathan Allen’s and Amie Parnes’s account adds another twist to the torturous saga over the then president’s age and fitness that was not resolved until a disastrous debate against Donald Trump precipitated his exit in July 2024.”
“More startlingly still, the book also reports that aides to Kamala Harris, the vice-president who assumed the nomination then lost to Trump, ‘strategized around the possibility that Biden might die in office.’”
“Such planning was led by Jamal Simmons, Harris’s White House communications director, Parnes and Allen report, and went as far as the drawing up of a ‘death-pool roster’ of federal judges who might swear Harris in.”
“Simmons ‘never told the vice president about the death-pool roster before leaving her camp in January 2023,’ the authors write, ‘but he advised colleagues that he should be notified immediately if something happened to Biden, because he had worked out an entire communications strategy. And he left the spreadsheet with another Harris aide.’”
It’s worth pointing out that while the book is very clear that Simmons never told Harris about the death strategizing, it never specifically says he didn’t tell her about the rest of the plan.
It seems fairly likely Harris knew that her aides were planning to get Joe Biden out of the presidential race for years.