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The Quiet Constitutional Crisis

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The heretofore unmentioned circumstance is entering public discourse: Vice President Harris asserted that Joe Biden is president — not Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) — during a tense exchange on Charlamagne Tha God's Comedy Central show. Charlamagne asked Harris to name the country's "real president." "It's Joe Biden. And don't start talking like a Republican about asking whether or not he's president," Harris told the host of "Tha God's Honest Truth" on Friday in an interview on the weekly late-night program. More remarkable is an op-ed in The Hill that suggests -- for the first time I'm aware in polite discussion -- that the Spiro Agnew option is potentially on the table. The last vice president of the United States to resign was Spiro Agnew in October 1973. Should Vice President Harris be the next? . . . Ironically, as more and more Republicans hope that Harris remains on the ticket — especially as the candidate ...