‘She Could Be President’: Joe Biden Hints Kamala Harris Best Positioned To Replace Him

US President Joe Biden on Tuesday said that Vice President Kamala Harris “could be president of the United States” while addressing the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) convention.

“Folks, I know what a Black job is — it’s the vice president of the United States,” said Biden, referring to his running mate Kamala Harris, the first Black and female VP.

“She’s not only a great vice president, she could be president of the United States,” Biden, 81, said of Harris, 59, who is best placed to replace him if the US President decides to retire.

The octogenarian chief executive returned to the campaign trail with a speech to crucial Black voters at the NAACP advocacy group in Las Vegas.

He opened his speech by saying he was “grateful” that Trump was safe after the shooting, and said he wanted to renew efforts to ban the kind of semi-automatic rifle that shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks used.

For the NAACP crowd, Biden seized on Trump recently referencing “Black jobs,” drawing big applause by joking, “I love the phrase.”

He also referenced Barack Obama as the nation’s first Black president, and his own appointment to the Supreme Court of its first Black and female justice, Ketanji Brown Jackson.

Joe Biden wants to demonstrate his administration’s support for Black voters, a cornerstone of the Democratic coalition and his personal political base. He is also reaching out to the Democrat Hispanic Americans as he plans to address UnidosUS, a key Hispanic advocacy group, on Wednesday.

The 81-year-old Biden has dismissed numerous calls from within his party to step down, assuring the US public that he is the best Democrat to defeat Trump.

At the NAACP meeting in Las Vegas, there was widespread support for Biden staying on.

“I found President Biden very full of energy,” said Donna Jackson-Houston, an NAACP member from California.

She admitted that “I and many others had doubts” about Biden’s age and gaffes after the debate, but “he did a great job today convincing me.”

Tony Fields from New Jersey said Biden’s speech was “very insightful,” adding that the bad debate was “just a moment that the President had that evening.”