Interesting how Harris is now the third Vice President in this century to receive serious speculation about not being on the ticket for reelection. In 2004, Bush and Cheney's personal relationship was starting to tear and since Bush had gone from a 90% approval rating to barely 50% in less than three years' time, his reelection was obviously in doubt. As was Obama's even more so, whom people urged to replace Biden with Clinton (mostly by former Clinton supporters, to be fair) to save his ass. Literally nobody cares about Pence. And now that Biden is in deep trouble right now, he's under pressure to toss Harris aside (or not run at all, for that matter).
You don't remember all the speculation he was going to drop him for Nikki Haley?
In any event, this is just the media stirring sh**t. There is no reason for an incumbent president to drop the VP from the ticket unless there were a massive personal scandal. Why go out of your way to draw negative attention?
I don't, strangely.
Fair point, though. Every president elected since 2000 has had a tough reelection battle. What's funny is that a Vice President Edwards certainly would've been dropped for someone else, especially as Kerry never liked him to begin with and he was only picked because his campaign advisors told him to.
I can still buy Bush seriously considering dropping Cheney though. By his second midterm, the two were barely on speaking terms.
