Growing number of House Dems look to Kamala as possible Biden replacement

Nearly a week after President Biden's disastrous performance in a presidential debate, multiple current and former House Democrats are signaling they would back Vice President Kamala Harris as his successor if the 81-year-old leader chooses to step aside.

Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pa., a member of the House's progressive "Squad," joined radio show "Mornings with Zerlina" Wednesday, warning Democrats — and likely, by extension, President Biden — they are running out of time to decide whether to change course.

"If our president decides this is not a pathway forward for him, we have to move very quickly. There’s not going to be time for a primary. That time is past," Lee said. "The vice president is the obvious choice. She’s sitting right there."

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Lee also warned of the political ramifications of side-stepping Harris while pointing out the high voter turnout rates among Black women.

"We’re so willingly going to push aside an entire demographic, and I think that it would be very dangerous to do that, personally," she warned.

It comes just a day after Rep. Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., a longtime Biden ally whose support was critical to Biden clinching the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, stopped short of airing concerns about the president's viability. He added, however, that he would support Harris as the nominee if Biden did drop out.

"I want this ticket to continue to be Biden-Harris," Clyburn said on "MSNBC Reports." "This party should not, in any way, do anything to work around Ms. Harris. We should do everything we can to bolster her whether she's in second place or at the top of the ticket."

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