The US presidential election was run and received by Donald Trump, making a unique form of historical past than Vice President Kamala Harris and the Democrats had been hoping for.
Donald Trump accomplished a exceptional sweep of the States — together with all key battleground states — clinching 312 electoral school votes to Ms Harris’ 226 after final Tuesday’s election.
Mr Trump can also be wanting all however sure to win the favored vote, the primary time a Republican candidate has achieved so since 2004.
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Republicans have additionally taken again management of the Senate and are prone to retain management of the Home, with lower than two dozen Home seats to name and one Senate race nonetheless open as of Sunday, US time.
Whereas the Democrats have conceded to their brutal defeat, a former White Home aide has one last-ditch concept for Ms Harris to beat Mr Trump to the Oval Workplace.
All Joe Biden has to do is resign.
Jamal Simmons, the vp’s former communications director, floated the daring concept in an look on CNN which audibly stunned his panellists.
“Joe Biden has been a phenomenal president, he’s lived up to so many of the promises he’s made. There’s one promise left that he could fulfil: being a transitional figure,” Mr Simmons stated.
“He could resign the presidency in the next 30 days, make Kamala Harris the President of the United States.”
The ex-aide-turned-political-commentator stated catapulting Ms Harris to the Oval Workplace would save her the duty of overseeing the “transition of her own defeat”. As the present president of the Senate, she should certify the outcomes of Mr Trump’s victory.
Mr Simmons stated such a transfer would “dominate the news” and “change the entire perspective of how Democrats operate”.
However, greater than that, he added, it could be vastly disruptive to the Trump advertising and marketing machine.
“This is something that’s in Joe Biden’s control and if he did it, again, it would fulfil his promise his last promise. It would give Kamala Harris the chance to be the 47th President of the United States.
“It would disrupt all of Donald Trump’s paraphernalia, he’d have to rebrand everything,” Mr Simmons laughed.
“And it would make it easier for the next woman who runs for president to not have to worry about the historical weight of being the first.”
Mr Simmons had raised this tactic on social media solely hours earlier than, taking to X to say such a brazen transfer by the Democrats would “turn tables on Trump”.
“Dems have better policies but we must realise the old rules no longer apply,” he wrote in one other publish to X.
“We are not playing table tennis. We are in a mixed martial arts fight and Americans respond to drama and excitement. We should use that to make our arguments for a better path forward.”
