Kamala Harris has not resigned from Senate seat

Democrats and most media figures have declared former Vice President Biden to have won this year’s general election, President Trump’s legal challenges notwithstanding.

Yet despite bold predictions about how Biden’s administration will move forward, his running-mate has made a curious decision.  

As pointed out in a Monday article by PJ Media writer Matt Margolis, Kamala Harris still hasn’t resigned from her California Senate seat.

Margolis concedes that “senators who have gone on to become vice president didn’t exactly resign quickly after their elections,” pointed to Al Gore, Dan Quayle and Lyndon Johnson as individuals who hung on until January.

What’s more, the author points to an NPR piece about how Joe Biden himself actually went so far as to take the Senate’s oath office in 2009 simply so he could resign as that body’s 14th longest serving member.

Harris decides to “play it safe”

Still, he argues that while Harris is under no obligation to step down, doing so “would be an incredibly bold and symbolic move that would tell the country that the Biden-Harris team is 100 percent confident that they are the legitimate victors of the 2020 election.”

Such a move would not impact the Senate’s balance of power given that California Gavin Newsom is guaranteed to “appoint a reliably radical left wing Democrat to serve out the remainder of her term.”

Yet although Harris’ departure would do much to project confidence in the election’s outcome, Margolis says “something tells me that won’t happen.”

Wating for legal challenges?

“Trump’s legal team has challenges going on in multiple states, and they’ve collected an extraordinary amount of evidence that they say will be revealed over the next couple of weeks,” he writes.

“Perhaps,” Margolis speculates, “the reason we’re not getting the demonstration of confidence in the results of the election from Kamala Harris is that they are waiting for the legal challenges” Trump’s campaign has put forth to be resolved.

He emphasizes that no matter how much the mainstream media dismisses allegations of fraud and irregularity as being unfounded, it will ultimately be courts that decide the issue.

“If the Trump team has the goods this election may not be over yet,” Margolis concludes, “and maybe Kamala would rather play it safe than give up her seat in the U.S. Senate prematurely.”

 

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