Democrat lawmaker says overlooking Harris to replace Biden would be bad 'optics' for party

Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pa., said the optics of overlooking Vice President Kamala Harris as a replacement for President Biden, should he step aside, would not be a good look for the Democratic Party.

She noted that conversations about replacing Biden as the party's nominee are “wildly speculative" right now.

"We have a few months to do a monumental task. That is not cheap, that is not easy, which means that right now, if our president decides that this is not the pathway forward for him, then it means that we are going to have to move very quickly. There's not going to be time for, you know, a primary, right? That time has passed, right?" Lee said Wednesday on SiriusXM’s “Mornings with Zerlina.”

"Which means that the vice president is the obvious choice because she's sitting right there, as somebody who has been in the White House, as somebody who already has the name recognition, who's already out on the trail. But irrespective of how you feel about, you know, Vice President Harris, which I think that as every other politician, everybody has feelings about these folks, but the reality is, the optics of pushing aside a black woman is - they're not good," she added.