Vice President Kamala Harris lost the 2024 presidential election, but one of her former aides still sees a way in which Harris can become the 47th president. It is an elaborate scheme that would require help from the commander in chief, President Joe Biden. 

During an appearance on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday, Jamal Simmons, Harris’s former communications director, proposed that Biden resign the presidency in the immediate future, which would allow Harris to replace him, be sworn in as president, and serve out the remainder of his term, which ends when President-elect Donald Trump is inaugurated on Jan. 20, 2025.