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Kamala Harris has refused to answer questions of whether President Joe Biden is fit for office as Republican lawmakers demand the cabinet invoke the 25th Amendment.

The vice president has all but secured the Democratic nomination for president after the 81-year-old dropped out, but is facing mounting questions of whether she covered up Biden’s cognitive decline.

Biden is set to return to the White House today after isolating with COVID at his Delaware beach home.

Follow the U.S. politics blog for all the updates from the campaign trail after Biden made the extraordinary decision to withdraw. 

Kamala Harris refuses to answer whether Joe Biden is fit for office as lawmakers demand invoking the 25th Amendment

Kamala Harris is facing growing questions of whether Joe Biden is fit for office or if she knew about his cognitive decline.

The vice president has all but sewn up the Democratic nomination after 81-year-old Biden’s extraordinary decision to drop out.

But now she is under pressure as Republican lawmakers demand Biden’s cabinet invoke the 25th Amendment.

Republican Senator Eric Schmitt sent a letter to all cabinet members on Monday demanding they use the Constitution to remove him from office.

GOP Senator Tom Cotton has slammed Harris for spending years saying ‘Biden was able to serve, sharp as a tack, fit as a fiddle.

‘Now, she has to answer: if Joe Biden isn’t fit to run for president, do you believe that he’s fit to continue serving as president?’

Harris’ office didn’t respond to Fox News Digital’s question of whether she believes Biden should serve out the remainder of his term.

The ailing president broke his silence after five days on Monday by calling into his old campaign office on loudspeaker.

TOPSHOT - US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff acknowledge the crowd before speaking at her campaign headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, on July 22, 2024. Harris on January 22, won the crucial backing of Democratic heavyweight Nancy Pelosi to lead the party against Donald Trump in November after Joe Biden's stunning exit from the 2024 race. As the endorsements stacked up, the 59-year-old Harris made her first public appearance since Biden's announcement in a ceremony at the White House where she warmly praised the outgoing president's "unmatched" achievements. (Photo by Erin SCHAFF / POOL / AFP) (Photo by ERIN SCHAFF/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

George Clooney endorses Kamala Harris

FILE - George Clooney, a cast member in "Ticket to Paradise," poses at the premiere of the film, Monday, Oct. 17, 2022, at the Regency Village Theatre in Los Angeles. Just weeks after headlining a record-breaking fundraiser for the president's reelection campaign, Clooney wrote a New York Times opinion piece calling for Biden to end his bid. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

Actor George Clooney has endorsed Kamala Harris for president.

‘President Biden has shown what true leadership is. He’s saving democracy once again. We’re all so excited to do whatever we can to support Vice President Harris in her historic quest,’ Clooney said in statement to CNN.

Clooney, a longtime Democrat who has raised millions for the party, sent shockwaves through the political world on July 10th when he wrote an op-ed in the New York Times calling for Joe Biden to exit the presidential race.

His move started a tidal wave of Democratic voices calling for Biden to step down as the party’s nominee.

Republican calls Kamala Harris a ‘DEI hire’

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/Shutterstock (14559546s) U.S. Representative Tim Burchett (R-TN) speaking at a press conference where House Republicans spoke about a resolution holding U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland in inherent contempt of the House of Representatives, at the U.S. Capitol. House Republicans on Inherent Contempt of Attorney General Merrick Garland in Washington - 26 Jun 2024

Repulican Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) called Kamala Harris a ‘DEI hire’ and asked Joe Biden why he didn’t consider ‘white females’ in an interview on Monday night.

Burchett told CNN’S Manu Raju said Harris was ‘100 percent’ chosen because of diversity, equity and inclusion and called her record ‘absymal’.

Biden said, first off, he said he’s going to hire a black female for vice president and that not… Just skipped over.

What about what about white females? What about any other group? It just when you go down that route, if you take mediocrity and that’s what they have right now as a vice president

Kamala Harris has secured the support of enough Democratic delegates to win the presidential nomination

Vice President Kamala Harris has the support from enough Democratic delegates to sew up the Democratic nomination.

CNN and other outlets calculated that delegates from enough states have said they would back Harris that she has more than the 1,976 pledged delegates needed to win the Democratic presidential nomination at the convention in Chicago next month.

The news comes one day after President Joe Biden dramatically departed the race, endorsing Harris on his way out.

So far, there hasn’t been Democratic resistance to having Harris take over the top of the ticket.

Marianne Williamson, the self-help guru who challenged Biden in the primaries earlier this year, said she wanted there to be an open convention.

But with a majority of delegates saying they’ll vote Harris, it’s unlikely an insurgent candidate would gain much traction.

‘The world will be safer under Donald Trump’: British Conservative MP Suella Braverman says she would vote for Republican if she was American

Tory rightwinger Suella Braverman praised Donald Trump today, saying she would vote for him if she was American because of his track record of keeping the world safe.

The former home secretary said she would back the Republican candidate because ‘no wars were started’ when he was in the White House between 2016 and 2020.

Appearing as a guest host on LBC radio Ms Braverman, who is expected to make a bid for the conservative leadership in the autumn, admitted Trump was ‘not right’ to have challenged the result of the 2020 election.

But she said that he was the right person to retake power to rebuild the US economy and had been ‘robust’ on foreign policy – despite having praised autocratic leaders like Vladimir Putin and China‘s Xi Jinping.

She used her guest host appearance to lambast Kamala Harris as ‘very much to the left of US politics, in some ways she is even to the left of Bernie Sanders.’

She said:  ‘I want Trump to be president. If we look at the policy – don’t look at the characters and the personalities – if we look at the policy, I think the world will be safer under Donald Trump.

REVEALED: The cunning ploy devious Democrats used to sabotage Biden’s campaign and their bombshell threat if he didn’t drop out of race

The Democratic Party plot to get Joe Biden to drop out has been long in the works, a Biden insider claims.

However, a source close to Biden’s family is saying that the party put together a ‘palace coup’ over the course of recent weeks, with the president fighting it until he was threatened with being forced out.

The insider says that the disastrous debate against Donald Trump on June 27 – the earliest presidential debate in history – was part of the strategy, despite being publicly requested by Biden on social media.

Biden, 81, speaks with a VERY scratchy voice as he is heard from the first time in five days

President Joe Biden broke his silence over 24 hours after his extraordinary decision to drop out of the 2024 race with a phone call to what has now become Kamala Harris‘ campaign headquarters.

The 81-year-old spoke in a scratchy voice to campaign staffers from COVID isolation at his Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, home and told Harris: ‘I’m watching you kid’.

He pledged to still be involved in the reelection fight and said he would continue to hit the campaign trail as he interacted on loudspeaker with his staffers who now work for Harris.

Biden’s comments followed questions of why he hadn’t been seen or heard from since he made the bombshell announcement on X Sunday afternoon that he was stepping aside.

‘I know yesterday’s news is surprising and hard for you to hear, but it was the right thing to do,’ the president said.

‘I know it’s hard because you poured your heart and soul into me, to help us win this thing, help me get this nomination, help me win the nomination and then go on to win the presidency,’ he continued.

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