[adjusting my foil hat]. This has to happen before they can push JB out. Any 25thA plan to remove him would elevate her.
Unless the Dems plan to do a Titanic(go down with the ship), they have to have a viable VP to take over when they toss Joe overboard. Mitch and McCarthy should quietly, or not so quietly, tell NP and CS that there will be no GOP votes for any successor candidate, no matter who.
Yes, her days are numbered right up to the end of her term in office.