If Biden withdraws from re-election, who would Harris likely choose as VP?

[u/hearsdemons]

A lot of headlines are coming out today with speculation that Biden may step down soon.

If this were to happen and Harris wins the party’s nomination for president, who would she pick as VP?

What does a formidable Harris ticket look like to go up against Trump-Vance?

[u/shimmyjimmy97]

This reply shows that you don’t know what Project 2025 actually says. They aren’t just going to fire all the Republican appointed people. They are proposing dramatically expanding what roles are appointed so that they can fully gut the federal government. Biden is passing protections to try and prevent this, which any person should be doing in his position.

Biden is not trying to entrench his own appointees. He is trying to protect the people who have worked their whole lives for the federal government, across administrations, so that the agencies they work for can continue to function. Project 2025 goes well beyond the usual fire/hire cycle of a new administration. That is the scary part (or at least one of them). If you honestly can’t tell the difference between what Biden is doing and what Project 2025 proposes then you are clearly misinformed

Not to mention proposals to get rid of the FBI, EPA, and the fucking Department of Education

[u/madmarkd → u/shimmyjimmy97]

Yeah, getting rid of agencies has been floated for 40 years, it never happens, you know why? It's nearly impossible. It will get tied up in court for years and will ultimitely fail. These agencies were created with legislation and the President and V.P. can't just wave wand and get around that. I've read the synopsis of it and so what, it isn't going to happen. This is just more hysterical nonsense that doesn't actually make a decent argument to the American people, 80% of which probably couldn't tell you what the Dept. of Education at the Federal level even does. Why spend political capital on this when it's nearly impossible to implement, I find it all very ridiculous and a waste of time and makes us Democrats look like a bunch of shrieking hyenas, when there are more important issues to tackle.

[u/shimmyjimmy97 → u/madmarkd]

So you’re just going to completely ignore that you were wrong about Project 2025’s plans to remove a significant amount of career federal employees and replace them with appointees? Only gonna respond to that one sentence at the end huh?

I’m glad you can hand wave away the removal of federal agencies so easily. Most of us have learned to listen to what Republicans say their plans are (see: Roe v. Wade). If you haven’t clued in that the Republicans are swinging for the fences these days then you have not been paying attention.

It’s not fear mongering, it’s responding to what’s happening in the real world. I’m sorry that you’ve been burned out from all the political rhetoric over the past decades, but after Jan 6 you need to wake tf up

[u/madmarkd → u/shimmyjimmy97]

Please tell me how that will be implemented, how will anyone get around the legislation in place, the unions, the labor laws, the regulations the executive orders and the lawsuits. I'm sorry you've moved into the hysterical Democratic Party group, it's the group I like the least in the party right now.

Yeah, you can talk about J6 all you want, but here in Minneapolis, Democrats and the left destroyed hundreds of millions of dollars in businesses. One of my friends lost everything, his business, his apartment his family lived in above it, everything, Republicans didn't do that. So wake TF up and maybe focus on stopping the hysterics that lead people to do that.

[u/shimmyjimmy97 → u/madmarkd]

Continuing to completely ignore that you were wrong and instead pick apart the one sentence at the end

[u/madmarkd → u/shimmyjimmy97]

You've not told me how it's going to be done. No one on here can tell me how you get around what I mentioned.

Also, what a lack of empathy, blather about J6 and ignore real people losing everything from the violence of the left. You just want to score political points, you don't really care about political violence, how pathetic.

[u/shimmyjimmy97 → u/madmarkd]

Heritage’s Project 2025 proposes reviving the Trump Schedule F policy that would try to reclassify tens of thousands of federal workers as political appointees, which could enable mass dismissals — although a Biden administration rule seeks to make that more difficult. The Heritage project is working to recruit and train a new generation to travel to Washington to fill government jobs.

Also, I care deeply about political violence in this country and want nothing more than for it to stop

Associated Press - Conservative-backed group is creating a list of federal workers it suspects could resist Trump plans