Vice President Kamala Harris has often declared her readiness to serve should she be called to take over the Oval Office. However, in light of last week’s disastrous special counsel report and press conference in which President Joe Biden couldn’t remember crucial details — all while being outraged that the special counsel deemed him too senile to be put on trial — has provoked a more pointed panic from the Democrats.

Biden is clearly not fit to top the ticket, but many would argue that neither is Harris. For her part, Harris, in an interview for The Wall Street Journal, said that she’s ready. According to WSJ: “‘I am ready to serve. There’s no question about that,’ Harris responded bluntly. Everyone who sees her on the job, Harris said, ‘walks away fully aware of my capacity to lead.’”

Except that she seems to be the only one who thinks she’s up for the job. Harris has been hounded by several issues in her vice presidential tenure. She can’t seem to keep a competent staff around her, she is inarticulate and constantly falls back to that off-putting cackle, she is not politically savvy, she’s failed as the border czar, and she’s deeply unpopular.

Harris’s polling numbers are worse than any other vice president in the history of the United States. As much as her supporters insist it’s because everyone who opposes her is racist and misogynist, the truth is that she has demonstrated she is unwilling to put in the work and is easily flustered. Her leadership opportunities have led to failure.

She has failed again and again to demonstrate readiness for the job of commander-in-chief. Conservatives will laugh because it seems that the Democrats are stuck with her. She is the intersectional candidate that is “historical.” Dumping her from the ticket would probably cost them some of the more ardent intersectional proponents in their voting base. That, however, is far from certain. As much as leftist Democrats talk about elevating certain races and genders, they may still opt for merit and competency at the end of the day.

The Wall Street Journal editorial board point out: “For one thing, Democrats wouldn’t have to nominate Ms. Harris if Mr. Biden stood down and the nomination were decided at the Democratic convention in August. Other candidates would run, and their relative appeal would be tested. Our guess is that Ms. Harris’s polling would be bad enough that Democratic pros would rally behind someone else, despite the identity-politics complications of opposing a minority woman. Democrats are bloodier-minded about power than are GOP primary voters.”

This is an interesting point to make. However, based on a Harvard/Harris poll, Democrat voters are more likely to vote for Harris over other choices such as Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Joe Manchin, or Gavin Newsom. Hilariously enough, almost 13% of Democrats want someone else on the ticket who wasn’t listed in the poll. Technically, that places second to Harris’s 15%.

We will, of course, see where the chips fall in the coming months. But one thing is more and more clear to the American people: A weak president makes the world a less safe place (Biden’s time in office has amply proved that), and Harris hasn’t stepped up to the plate where it matters to the American people.