The single most suicidal, self-defeating thing Democrats could do is drop Vice President Kamala Harris from the ticket in 2024.

Some Democrats want to, but that’s short-sighted. They don’t see the punch and power she brings to the ticket.

Most important, she’s ready to be President now.

She was a tough prosecutor who put sexual offenders behind bars. She was a strong attorney general of California. She was a Senator. She’s been an active and engaged Vice President.

She heads the new White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention.

She ran for President, the toughest of political tests. She put Biden on his heels in a debate. She was the best debater he faced in 2020.

To his credit, he picked her to run with him. She’s been his partner in the campaign and in the White House. She’s learned what it takes at the top.

Together, they beat Trump, vaccinated America, saved democracy, stood up to Putin and passed the most progressive economic program since FDR.

Her age (58) and dynamism are the antidote to President Biden’s age problem. She reaches young voters who can decide the 2024 election. She attracted a packed, raucous crowd at N.C. A&T State University this month on her “Freedoms Tour” – freedom from gun violence, freedom to vote and freedom for women to make their own decisions about pregnancy.

Not least, the Democratic Party’s most loyal voters are Black women. Dropping Harris would drop a bomb on them – and on the party’s chances in 2024.

Fortunately, President Biden has better sense than some people in his party.

Biden-Harris is the winning ticket.