A former aide for Kamala Harris floated the idea of Joe Biden resigning to make her the country’s first female president.

“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. It’d turn tables on Trump, keep Kamala from presiding over Jan 6 make it easier for next woman to run,” Jamal Simmons, Harris’ former communications director, said.

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. It’d turn tables on Trump, keep Kamala from presiding over Jan 6 make it easier for next woman to run. #trailblazepodcast

— Jamal Simmons (@JamalSimmons) November 10, 2024

Simmons worked for Harris from January 2022 to January 2023.

He has worked for several Democratic politicians, including Bill Clinton and Al Gore, and was deputy director of communications for the Democratic National Committee (DNC).

From the New York Post:

The former spox-turned-CNN commentator made a similar plea on air Sunday, prompting laughter from his conservative colleague Scott Jennings.

“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 said on the air.

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

Biden, 81, had already helped Harris, 60, make history when he tapped her to be the first female vice president. She is also the first black female and Asian American vice president in US history.

Moreover, the president stepped aside as the presumptive Democratic nominee on July 21 and paved the way for Harris to become the second woman to lead the party’s presidential ticket.

Another idea floated by Democrats was Kamala Harris replacing Justice Sonia Sotomayor on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Legal analyst and attorney Bakari Sanders suggested Harris could replace the 70-year-old liberal justice.

WATCH:

HAHAHAHA now they want Biden to put Harris on the Supreme Court before he leaves: pic.twitter.com/2KuWE5L1wm

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) November 8, 2024

Per Newsweek:

Following the election, which most polls had shown was an extraordinarily tight race, some social media users have posted the same call for Biden to resign.

Allison Gill, a Trump critic who worked at the U.S. Department of Veterans, posted on X: “Biden should resign so Harris becomes 47 and Donald has to throw out all his 47 swag.” She made the post through her podcast Mueller, She Wrote’s X account.

Another account, Call to Activism, which was founded by attorney Joe Gallina, echoed similar thoughts, “President Biden should resign as an act of protest tomorrow so Kamala Harris could be sworn in as the first female president until January. That would make Trump 48 and ruin that stupid hat of his.”

After winning the election, Trump is set to be the 47th president, having already served one term as the 45th. Trump and Grover Cleveland are the only U.S. presidents to serve two terms nonconsecutively.

Co-host of MSNBC’s The Weekend, Symone D. Sanders Townsend, posted in disagreement of the calls, “To these people saying President Biden should resign so VP Harris could be POTUS for a few weeks. Do you hear yourselves? The Oval Office is not a d*** game. Smh.”