{"id":2023632,"date":"2023-09-06T16:11:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T20:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kamala-harris-says-she-is-ready-to-take-over-the-job-of-being-president-if-biden-needs-her-to\/"},"modified":"2023-09-06T16:11:01","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T20:11:01","slug":"kamala-harris-says-she-is-ready-to-take-over-the-job-of-being-president-if-biden-needs-her-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kamala-harris-says-she-is-ready-to-take-over-the-job-of-being-president-if-biden-needs-her-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamala Harris Says She Is Ready &#8216;To Take Over the Job of Being President&#8217; if Biden Needs Her To"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkamala-harris-says-she-is-ready-to-take-over-the-job-of-being-president-if-biden-needs-her-to%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2023632&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Vice President Kamala Harris said during an interview Wednesday that she was ready to \u201ctake over\u201d as president if necessary, but claimed that she didn\u2019t expect to have to.<\/p>\n<p>Harris dismissed concerns about Biden\u2019s age, 80, even though he\u2019s widely seen as too old for office.<\/p>\n<p>A recent AP\/NORC poll showed that 77% of Americans and 69% of Democrats think he\u2019s too old for a second term.<\/p>\n<p>Harris is next in line to the presidency, a position that increased scrutiny of her as she serves with a president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/cnns-jake-tapper-corners-kjp-bidens-age-subjects-5-minutes-brutal-questioning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">who would be 86<\/a> at the end of a potential second term.<\/p>\n<p>Some Republican presidential hopefuls claim that a vote for Biden would really end up being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/nikki-haley-predicts-biden-will-die-says-dems-really-voting-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a vote for Harris<\/a> \u2014 and not in a good way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI see him every day. A substantial amount of time we spend together is in the Oval Office, where I see how his ability to understand issues and weave through complex issues in a way that no one else can to make smart and important decisions on behalf of the American people have played out,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd so I will say to you that I think the American people ultimately want to know that their president delivers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd Joe Biden delivers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harris described the idea of possibly stepping into the role of president as \u201chypothetical\u201d but said she was ready.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJoe Biden is going to be fine, so that is not going to come to fruition,\u201d she stated. \u201cBut let us also understand that every vice president \u2014 every vice president \u2014 understands that when they take the oath they must be very clear about the responsibility they may have to take over the job of being president.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harris added, \u201cI\u2019m no different.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harris also said that those responsible for the effort to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and the ensuing violence at the U.S Capitol must be held accountable \u2014 even if that means <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/gop-voters-rally-around-trump-following-jan-6-indictment-else-support\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">former President Donald Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet the evidence, the facts, take it where it may,\u201d Harris said in an interview with The Associated Press in Jakarta, Indonesia, where she was attending a regional summit.<\/p>\n<p>Federal prosecutors have indicted Trump, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/fourth-trump-indictment-backfires-poll-shows-biggest-primary-lead-yet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">front-runner<\/a> for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, for his alleged efforts to cling to power in 2020. The former president also has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/fulton-county-releases-historic-trump-mugshot-booking\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">charged in Georgia<\/a> in a purported scheme to subvert the will of voters who elected Democrat Joe Biden instead of giving Trump a second term.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI spent the majority of my career as a prosecutor,\u201d said Harris, who served as California\u2019s attorney general before moving to Washington as a U.S. senator. \u201cI believe that people should be held accountable under the law. And when they break the law, there should be accountability.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The White House has been circumspect in addressing the issue of criminal charges against Trump, who has pleaded not guilty, to avoid any whiff of political meddling in the work of prosecutors, particularly as Biden seeks a second term in 2024. But both Biden and Harris have been outspoken about what they claim is a very real danger to American democracy the aftermath of the 2020 election exposed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDemocracies are very fragile,\u201d the vice president said in the AP interview. \u201cThey will only be as strong as our willingness to fight for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harris is representing the United States at a summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in place of Biden.<\/p>\n<p>The president\u2019s absence disappointed some, but the White House emphasized that it remained committed to the region, which Harris reiterated in her interview.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe as Americans, I believe, have a very significant interest, both in terms of our security but also our prosperity, today and in the future, in developing and strengthening these relationships,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Southeast Asia is a critical arena for the rivalry between the U.S. and China, particularly when it comes to the South China Sea. One-third of global shipping traverses its waters.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing recently released a new government map that emphasizes its disputed territorial claims to the sea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a violation of the law. And that\u2019s where I put that map,\u201d Harris told the AP.<\/p>\n<p>ASEAN has struggled to make progress on issues such as the military coup in Myanmar, but Harris said the organization \u201cabsolutely\u201d remains a critical forum.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that so many leaders are convening in this one place at the same time to address some of the biggest challenges facing our world is a sign of strength of both the commitment that each nation has to the coalition and the potential for collaboration,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Harris sounded a strong warning about reports that Russia was talking with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/north-korea-drastically-speeding-war-preparations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">North Korea<\/a> about obtaining weapons for its invasion of Ukraine, calling the possible alliance \u201cill-advised.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRussia has been levied a strategic failure,\u201d she said. \u201dTheir aggressive, unprovoked actions in Ukraine have resulted in a situation where the aura and myth of the Russian military has now been dispelled.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: italic\">The Western Journal has reviewed this Associated Press story and may have altered it prior to publication to ensure that it meets our editorial standards.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-ap-interview-harris-says-trump-cant-spared-accountability-jan-6\/\">Kamala Harris Says She Is Ready &#8216;To Take Over the Job of Being President&#8217; if Biden Needs Her To<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President Kamala Harris said during an interview Wednesday that she was ready to \u201ctake over\u201d as president if necessary, but claimed that she didn\u2019t expect to have to. Harris dismissed concerns about Biden\u2019s age, 80, even though he\u2019s widely seen as too old for office. A recent AP\/NORC poll showed that 77% of Americans<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":2023635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2023632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2023632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2023635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2023632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2023632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2023632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}