Vice President Kamala Harris seemed poised to become the first woman president in U.S. history, but was denied on Tuesday by President-elect Donald Trump, who in turn had been denied a contiguous two terms in office by President Joe Biden in 2020.

There are now calls from some on the left for Biden to resign from office so that Harris can be elevated to the presidency and achieve the historic moment that she was unable to attain electorally, according to NewsNation.

Notably, Harris also became the Democratic nominee through non-electoral means when she supplanted Biden as their party's top candidate after he was essentially forced to end his re-election campaign by his own party following a disastrous debate in June that fully exposed his deteriorating cognitive health.

Could Biden resign to make Harris the first female president?

In the wake of Tuesday's election that featured President-elect Trump defeating VP Harris, NewsNation contributor Kurt Bardella offered up a suggestion for how President Biden could cement both himself and Harris in the history books.

Given that Biden has "nothing left to run for" and is effectively just counting down the days until the end of his decades-long political career in January, Bardella surmised that he should issue a pardon for his criminally convicted son, Hunter Biden, and then resign and turn the reins of the administration over to Harris.

"Make one more mark in the history books while you can," Bardella said. "I’m not saying that’s going to happen, but if I were Joe Biden, that’s exactly what I would do."

A similar proposition was found in a recent letter to the editor of the U.K.'s The Guardian from a reader with thoughts on how Biden could improve his legacy.

"Joe Biden should resign on his 82nd birthday on 20 November, allowing Kamala Harris to become America’s first female president, till 20 January," the reader wrote. "That would be a decent legacy."

Was viewed as a possible "October surprise"

To be sure, President Biden resigning so that VP Harris can ascend to the presidency is not a new idea, and in fact had been speculated upon as a legitimate, if somewhat unlikely, possibility during the presidential campaign season that just concluded this week.

Indeed, in a mid-August op-ed for The Hill, NewsNation contributor Steve Krakauer wrote about the potential for just such an "October surprise" as a way for Harris to gain an advantage over her Republican opponent, former President Trump.

Krakauer noted how Democratic power brokers, led by former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), with overt assistance from the media, had mounted an effective pressure campaign to force Biden to end his re-election bid because of the increasingly apparent decline of his mental and physical health -- though it certainly remains unclear if Pelosi and the rest wanted Harris or somebody else as Biden's replacement.

Rather predictably, the initial bump for Harris soon wore off, which prompted the theory that Biden could grant her another boost by resigning and allowing her to become the president, which would give her the benefit of incumbency and, perhaps, an opportunity to display her leadership and managerial skills with some sort of real or manufactured crisis in the late stages of the campaign season.

It could still happen

Of course, that didn't happen, and Biden remains the outgoing lame-duck president with a loser candidate in Harris by his side. There is still time, however, for them to pull the switch and allow Harris to achieve the historic mark that voters declined to grant her.

As an aside, doing so would be an especially petty slight against Trump, who has seized upon and run with merchandise branding that he will be the 47th president in U.S. history -- a numerical designation that would then shift to Harris and force him to adapt on the fly to embrace the number 48, undoubtedly wasting millions of dollars and countless items of "47"-branded merchandise in the process