Former comms director for VP Harris says Biden should resign to make her first female president

The former communications director for Vice President Kamala Harris is proposing a plan to make Harris the first female president, though she was soundly defeated in last week’s election against President-elect Donald Trump. 

The plan, by Jamal Simmons, says that all that has to happen is for President Joe Biden to resign. Simmons, who was part of Harris’s communications team from 2022 to 2023, urged Biden to step down. 

“Joe Biden has been amazing but he should fulfill one last promise — to be transitional. Biden should resign and make Kamala Harris the first woman president,” Simmons posted on X.

“It would dominate the news at a point where Democrats have to learn drama and transparency and doing things that the public wanna see is the time,” Simmons, now a CNN commentator, said on the network on Sunday.

“This is the moment for us to change the entire perspective of how Democrats operate.”

Harris, as vice president, faces the task of presiding over the congressional proceedings on Jan. 6, 2025, to certify the results of the 2024 election, according to the New York Post. Simmons made the point that if Biden were to step down, Harris wouldn’t have to go through the stress of that.  

“Dems have better policies but we must realize the old rules no longer apply. 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,” he wrote in another X post.