The 2024 Vice Presidential ‘Veepstakes’ Have Begun
17th November 2023
Vice presidents are meant to be dependable — and in a funny way Kamala Harris is exactly that. Joe Biden knows that, no matter how bad his poll numbers, hers will be worse: she’s the most unpopular vice president since polling began, according to one recent survey. Biden can afford to be pitifully vague in public partly because she is so painfully annoying. He loses his thread; she loses the plot.
That’s one of the reasons why, for all the alarm in Washington circles about the commander-in-chief’s “job performance” and the distinct possibility that he might lose to Donald Trump next year, the Biden-Harris ticket seems locked in place for 2024. Why would Biden nominate someone else when Harris is so reliably unthreatening? Why would he move aside when she would be even more terrible?