OPINION:
“At Essence, Black Democrats rally behind Biden and talk up Kamala Harris” (web, July 7) quotes Antjuan Seawright, a Black Democratic consultant, as declaring that if President Biden drops out of the race, choosing “anyone other than Kamala would be malpractice — and it would tear the party apart.”
As more and more elected Democrats urge Mr. Biden to withdraw and party leaders convene to plot alternatives, the president retreats into the defiant delusion that marks dementia. Most recently he insisted that only “if the Lord Almighty comes out and tells me” to get out of the race, “I might do that.”
While Mr. Biden debates whether to obey a voice from heaven, rest assured that Vice President Kamala Harris and other party leaders are not waiting for a sign in the sky to scheme Plan B.
Every day that the polls worsen and the election approaches, the appeal of the 25th Amendment to the Constitution becomes more alluring. The amendment provides that “Whenever the Vice President and a majority of [the Cabinet declare] … that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.”
Leading up to that moment, Ms. Harris and her co-conspirators would begin systematically leaking to the media more and more evidence of Mr. Biden’s cognitive chaos. A parade of party leaders would report that a clearly detached-from-reality Mr. Biden has irrationally rejected their pleas for his withdrawal or resignation.
And then, in collusion with Cabinet members promised a role in her upcoming administration, Ms. Harris would be able to seize by political fiat the office she never could reach through the popular vote and secure for herself the nomination of the party.
JONATHAN IMBODY
Mechanicsville, Virginia
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