On his podcast Friday, Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Victor Davis Hanson suggested that Democrats might still try to position Vice President Kamala Harris as president following a viral incident where President Joe Biden appeared to be “wandering” during a press conference in Brazil earlier this week.
The video, which gained traction online, showed Biden veering off a designated path after delivering a speech on climate issues in the Amazon rainforest. On The Victor Davis Hanson Show, Hanson remarked on Harris’s political shifts, noting that while she had moderated her stances during the 2020 election, she now seemed to be reverting to her “left-wing self” in the wake of her loss to President-elect Donald Trump.
“But my point about all of this is twofold. He is the president. He told everybody what he wanted to do. He was criticized severely in the campaign for being too provocative, but the point is that was unlike Kamala Harris,” Hanson noted. “She said everything that she said emphatically as a leftist. Fracking? ‘Of course I’m gonna ban it.’ She went out in demonstrations, no deportation, no deportation. Guns? She didn’t just say I want to, ‘I want to buy back guns. I’ll go into their house and get them,’ she said. Then she flipped.”
“She flipped on all of those, just for a hundred days. She’s back to her left-wing self right now, I assure you that. We’re gonna see that because when Joe Biden is wandering off into the Amazon jungle at the G20, or they say, ‘You know what? We waited 10 minutes and Joe is wandering around somewhere in the jungle and we have a photo op, so we’re just gonna do it. Forget him, or if he does come in late, put him up in the right corner somewhere.’ So there’s a big call that he should step down and she should step [up],” Hanson added.
Hanson further suggested that Democrats might try to use one of Donald Trump’s indictments to imprison him while orchestrating President Biden’s resignation, paving the way for Vice President Kamala Harris to assume the presidency. “I said that they would probably try to put Trump in jail and Joe Biden was deteriorating at a geometric rate, would probably be la-la land, and then there would be calls to make her president. Then she would be acculturated for 60 days and then the Left would, that would give the left time enough,” the noted historian added.
“Like this crazy representative Raskin or somebody, ‘Wow, the 14th Amendment, He’s like an extra. He’s just like a Confederate general. He tried to start a civil war, so he can’t hold a federal office. We’re gonna go to court and we’ll get a judge and we’ll stay,’” Hanson added. “I really believe they’re gonna do that. I say there’s a 30% chance that Joe will be, he might not be able to finish his term the next two months.”
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