A Washington Post columnist thinks President Biden would ease concerns about his advanced age by kicking unpopular Vice President Kamala Harris off the ticket and replacing her with Hillary Clinton.
Kathleen Parker, the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist who weighs in on politics and culture for The Washington Post, said that the 76-year-old former secretary of state who lost the 2016 presidential election to Donald Trump would extricate the US from its “old-White-men dilemma.”
“No one has mentioned her as a possible running mate for Biden far as I know, but why not replace Harris with Clinton?” Parker wrote in her most recent column.
Parker cited the 81-year-old Biden’s “steady decline the past few years” which have been made more apparent through “his stumbles, his search for words, his occasional blank stare” — all of which are now “impossible to ignore.”
She wrote that neither Biden or Trump would be eligible to run for Congress in North Dakota after that state’s legislature passed a measure that establishes an upper age limit for candidates.
Parker argued that having Harris on the ticket would deter already-skeptical voters due to the vice president’s “competency, or lack thereof.”
