Former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy doubled down on his political theory that Democrats are preparing to switch out President Joe Biden with former first lady Michelle Obama as the 2024 presidential nominee following the release of a damning special counsel report.
Special counsel Robert Hur questioned Biden’s mental competence as part of his investigation into the mishandling of classified documents at the president’s Delaware home. Hur said a jury would find Biden to be a “sympathetic, well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory” and prosecution would be difficult.
That will be enough to push Biden off the ticket in the 2024 rematch with former President Donald Trump.
“The main obstacle stopping the Democratic Party is they have a Kamala Harris problem, which is to say that if they do sideline Biden, the natural person normally that would be the nominee, could be the vice president of that same sitting president. But that vice president is unable, I think, to effectively carry forward that job,” Ramaswamy told Fox News.
“She didn’t make it to the Iowa caucus in the year that she ran, right, even and within her own party, let alone an issue with broader popularity in the country,” he said.
Ramaswamy said the special counsel findings on Biden’s mental state offers convenient excuse for Democrats to swap him out for the popular former first lady.
“If race and gender are your basis for selecting someone for a job, and the identity of your party is tied to that temple of identity politics, then they will risk looking hypocritical if they sideline her after they sideline Biden,” he said. “And I do think Michelle Obama offers them a convenient path out of that problem, somebody who checks the boxes that they need to have checked per their own ideology, while also selecting an alternative to Biden that they may view as more palatable in a general election”
“It’s looking increasingly like it’s not going to be Biden as the nominee — and I think that it should not be shocking to see someone like Michelle Obama take the role of the nomination,” Ramaswamy said.
The report itself noted that Biden struggled in investigative interviews to recall basics like his vice presidential tenures or precise timeframe of his son Beau’s death. It states Biden’s “memory was worse” regarding key career details that “were once so important to him.”
The revelations continues to fuel voter concerns over Biden’s advanced age and frequent public verbal stumbles as the oldest president in history.
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