Lyndon Johnson’s Supreme Court machinations

Many leaders of the Democratic Party are increasingly worried about President Biden’s low ratings among voters, fearing that he could lose next year’s election, even to former President Donald Trump. There is the option, now being considered in some quarters, of persuading the president to step aside so that he might be replaced at the top of the ticket with a younger and more engaging candidate. There is one unanswered question standing in the way of such a maneuver: What, then, is to be done with Vice President Kamala Harris, who is even less popular than President Biden, and a certain loser in the presidential election?