Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro predicted Kamala Harris’ rise to vice president, then to presidential candidate years before the 2020 election.
Shapiro predicted the Democratic Party’s 2020 and 2024 strategies years in advance during a Young America’s Foundation event at the University of Connecticut in January 2018. He said at the time that the “smart” strategy for Democrats heading into the 2020 election would be to nominate Joe Biden, then out of office, and have a leftist Democrat such as Harris run as his vice president.
Biden would then serve one term before being replaced at the top of the ticket by his far-Left VP, Shapiro predicted.
At the time, Shapiro thought the Democratic Party would cater to its radical wing and nominate a progressive such as Harris, then a senator from California, or Sen. Corey Booker of New Jersey. The smart move would be to nominate a more seemingly moderate candidate such as Biden, according to Shapiro.
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“I think that Biden would probably be their best bet,” Shapiro said. “What they would do if they were smart is they would nominate Biden, have him run with somebody like a Kamala Harris or a Cory Booker, and then say, ‘I’m going to serve one term because I’m 70,000 years old.’ And then just hand off the second term to somebody else.”
“Then Biden has achieved his life ambition, and he hands it off to the next in line,” he continued. “That’s what I would do if I were the Democrats, but I don’t want to give them advice. So, please guys, please run Kamala Harris or Cory Booker.”
This is insane. In 2018, Ben Shapiro predicted that the Democrats would run Joe Biden against Trump in 2020 and have him drop out after a single term to hand the 2024 nomination off to Kamala Harris. He called out the Democrats’ game plan. pic.twitter.com/PTCEfU7yVO
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) October 21, 2024
The 2020 and 2024 races have played out as Shapiro predicted, with Biden winning the presidency and elevating Harris along with himself to the White House. In 2024, Biden gave up his reelection efforts amid pressure from Democratic lawmakers and donors to step aside.
Harris was then promoted to the top of the ticket as she received preferential treatment from the party to take Biden’s place.
The controversial switch appears to have upset many within the White House, however, including the president of the United States. Biden appeared to complain to former President Barack Obama recently that “she’s not as strong as me,” in an apparent reference to Harris. Obama seemed to agree and said, “That’s true,” according to the New York Post.
