WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and other Republicans are calling on President Biden to resign after he announced Sunday he will not seek another term.
“We are suggesting and calling upon him to resign and do the right thing for the country,” Johnson said.
Johnson says if the president isn’t fit to run for re-election, he shouldn’t serve six more months.
“He has the nuclear codes. He has major decisions that he has to make every single hour of every day, and he does not have the faculties to do so now,” Johnson said.
Others are taking the calls a step further. South Carolina Republican Congresswoman Nancy Mace’s resolution calls on Vice President Kamala Harris to take steps to remove the president, “encouraging Kamala Harris to invoke the 25th amendment. I mean look, this is common sense,” Mace said on NewsNation.
Congress cannot constitutionally start that process. The 25th amendment lays out a way for the vice president and majority of the cabinet to remove a president if they declare him unable to perform his duties.
“It’s very difficult to do, number one, but we should be consistent in applying his ability to lead,” Mace said.
But Democrats say that’s not going to happen.
“Joe Biden is going to continue to do a great job between now and the end of his term,” Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) said.
Kaine says the reason the president stepped aside is, “because he needs to pass the torch for the next term, not for the next months.”
While Democrats figure out who to pass that torch to, with many already endorsing Harris, Republican vice presidential pick Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) is hitting the campaign trail for Trump in his hometown of Middletown, Ohio.
“Are we ready to re-elect Donald J. Trump again?” Vance asked the crowd.
