Democrat Vice President Kamala Harris has asserted that she is “ready to serve” in the top job, according to a new report.
Harris said she’s ready to step up as Democrats panic over growing concerns about President Joe Biden’s age and physical and mental fitness.
However, most Americans are likely still wondering when Harris will be stepping up to “serve” as VP.
Harris made the statement during a recent interview last week.
Her comments came shortly before the Thursday release of Special Counsel Robert Hur’s report on Biden’s mishandling of classified documents.
In the report, Hur described the president’s memory as having “significant limitations.”
Hur explained that pursuing charges against Biden would be pointless as a jury would see Biden as a confused old man.
“I am ready to serve. There’s no question about that,” Harris told The Wall Street Journal, adding that everyone who observes her work “walks away fully aware of my capacity to lead.”
Hur’s report recommended no charges against Biden over his actions about the mishandling of classified documents, partly because he would have a defense at trial as a “sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”
Republicans piled on Biden following the Hur report’s release last week, but Democrats have also begun voicing — or at least admitting — greater concern surrounding Biden’s age and whether that could hurt his chances at winning re-election this year.
Former President Bill Clinton’s lead strategist, James Carville, has also warned that Democrats are losing faith in Biden.
Carville argued Saturday that the White House has little confidence in Biden after he turned down a Super Bowl Sunday interview.
“It’s the biggest television audience, not even close, and you get a chance to do a 20-25-minute interview on that day,” Carville said.
“And you don’t do it?
“That’s a kind of sign that the staff, or yourself, doesn’t have much confidence in you.
“There’s no other way to read this.”
As Slay News reported earlier, another former Clinton strategist, Paul Begala, said Hur’s indictment of Biden’s memory, and the president’s subsequent response, was “terrible for Democrats.”
“Oh yeah. Look, I’m a Biden supporter, and I slept like a baby last night: I woke up every two hours crying and wet the bed,” Begala quipped on CNN last Friday in the wake of the report’s release.
“This is terrible for Democrats,” he declared.
“And anybody with a functioning brain knows that.”
Also ahead of the Hur report’s release, twice-failed Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton admitted Biden’s age is “a legitimate issue.”
