{"id":130390,"date":"2024-07-03T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=130390"},"modified":"2024-07-03T07:28:35","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T11:28:35","slug":"reuters-vp-harris-top-choice-to-replace-biden-in-election-race-if-he-steps-aside-sources-sayread-it-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=130390","title":{"rendered":"(Reuters) VP Harris top choice to replace Biden in election race if he steps aside, sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&nbsp;Vice President Kamala Harris is the top alternative to replace&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/topic\/person\/joe-biden\/\">U.S. President Joe Biden<\/a>&nbsp;if he decides not to continue his reelection campaign, according to seven senior sources at the Biden campaign, the White House and the Democratic National Committee with knowledge of current discussions on the topic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Biden&#8217;s fumbling, sometimes-incoherent and widely-panned first-debate performance against Republican rival Donald Trump last week&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/joe-bidens-disastrous-debate-blamed-bad-preparation-exhaustion-2024-06-30\/\">set off a wave of panic<\/a>&nbsp;within the Democratic party over concerns that he may not be fit enough to serve a second term, and prompted calls for top aides to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/joe-bidens-disastrous-debate-blamed-bad-preparation-exhaustion-2024-06-30\/\">resign<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/vp-harris-top-choice-replace-biden-election-race-if-he-steps-aside-sources-say-2024-07-03\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kamala Harris is the #1 choice to replace Biden if he steps aside in the presidential race, seven sources with knowledge of discussions on the subject tell \u2066<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nanditab1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@nanditab1<\/a>\u2069 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cBexGqAkRo\">https:\/\/t.co\/cBexGqAkRo<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Heather Timmons (@HeathaT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HeathaT\/status\/1808461132060832141?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 3, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;Vice President Kamala Harris is the top alternative to replace&nbsp;U.S. President Joe Biden&nbsp;if he decides not to continue his reelection campaign, according to seven senior sources at the Biden campaign, the White House and the Democratic National Committee with knowledge<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=130390\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,616,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americau-s-a","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130390"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130394,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130390\/revisions\/130394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}