President Joe Biden could make a decision within days whether to remain a candidate for reelection, said Hawaii’s governor who participated in a recent meeting with Biden and other Democratic governors and whose family has known the president for years.

And if Biden decides not to run, Hawaii Gov. Josh Green told The Associated Press on Saturday that he believes the president will designate Vice President Kamala Harris to replace him on the ticket.

Green, who was a physician on Hawaii’s Big Island before he was elected governor, said everyone has parents or grandparents who have moments that aren’t that great or pauses in their ability to express themselves clearly. But, he added, they aren’t discarded because of their experience, wisdom and their role in the family.

Green was quick to point out that Trump is only three years younger than Biden and both will have bad days going forward. But he argued that temperament is more important than age.

“For God’s sake, these two guys have to hold the nuclear codes,” Green said. “I don’t want someone who tweets in the middle of the night and rages at other countries. That is not good. That’s not the problem we have with President Biden.”

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    great question that do not have an answer to

    but there are people in worst shoes than mine and a lot of them

    not sure they are going to jump as easily on the Prosecutor Harris train given her political background

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      A Black woman with a prosecutorial history is nowhere near as dangerous as the orange asshole is.

      I think you overestimate how damaging that would be for her chances.

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      If you don’t have an answer to stopping Trump and other people do but you’re telling them not to do it, thanks for proving my point.

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      I think beyond a few very liberals (like myself), a law and order message will do well with voters. Even Oregon recently voted for stricter drug laws. What makes you think such a message won’t do well nationally?

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        trump runs on a law and order message.

        frankly law and order is a bad authoritarian sounding phrase. law and justice is much more platable and less harsh.