Vice President Kamala Harris is the leading Democratic candidate to succeed President-elect Joe Biden, seven senior Biden campaign, White House and Democratic National Committee (DNC) officials told Reuters on Wednesday.
The leak to Reuters reflects frustration within the Biden campaign, which is shaken by a poor debate performance and subsequent calls for him to drop out of the election.
Harris appears to be the front-runner because Biden’s donations would be the easiest to pass on to the vice president, and she also has the highest name recognition and the highest approval rating in opinion polls against former President Donald Trump, according to a Tuesday survey. CNN PollSource Said Reuters.
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But challenges remain: Harris’ approval rating is a dismal 39%, below the 50% threshold historically needed for an incumbent to win reelection, and she failed to secure an open southern border as border commissioner.
Political experts say Democrats have no choice but to turn to Biden for three reasons: the difficulty of replacing him with 50 states on the ballot, the difficulty of putting money behind a new candidate and the difficulty of finding a potential sacrificial lamb to run in Biden’s place.
“People may be dreaming of a new superhero, but there’s a process, and the last I checked, it’s the Biden-Harris combination. She’s number two in that combination,” said Donna Brazile, a former interim chair of the Democratic National Committee. Biden remains the Democratic nominee and “isn’t going anywhere.”
Not everyone agrees with Brazile. “It’s almost impossible to win the nomination and beat the vice president,” former Hillary Clinton Democratic strategist Michael Trujillo said in support of Harris.
“All of those delegates are not just Joe Biden’s delegates, they’re Kamala Harris’ delegates,” Trujillo explained. “Harris will have a significant number of delegates and endorsements in all 50 states starting on day one.”
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