Steven Nelson has this interesting article in U.S. News & World Report on what would happen if a major contender in a presidential general election died in the last few months of a presidential election year.
Steven Nelson has this interesting article in U.S. News & World Report on what would happen if a major contender in a presidential general election died in the last few months of a presidential election year.
Those are some awfully scary photos of Donald and Hillary. They both look like walking death.
Is this a subtle “I would never advocate doing this, but…….” type post?
Art. 20, Sec. 3 —
3. If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President, the President elect shall have died, the Vice President elect shall become President. If a President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the President elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Vice President elect shall act as President until a President shall have qualified; and the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor a Vice President elect shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly until a President or Vice President shall have qualified.
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Besides being dead a Prez elect may NOT be *qualified*.
How many of the SCOTUS robot party hacks may die from old age from now until 20 Jan 2017 ??? —
esp. if there are Bush v. Gore type election cases in various States ???
Well if Clinton or Trump dies or resigns there will still be two candidates on the ballot everywhere with Gary Johnson and most states have half a dozen or so candidates so no need to postpone the election. Also if one party is out the other will make sure the election goes forward and filibuster any attempt to postpone.
“Well if Clinton or Trump dies or resigns there will still be two candidates on the ballot everywhere with Gary Johnson and most states have half a dozen or so candidates so no need to postpone the election. Also if one party is out the other will make sure the election goes forward and filibuster any attempt to postpone.”
This is an incredibly ignorant post in regards to existing law.
Too many hypotheticals. What if a major party candidate dies the day before election? What if major party candidate is revealed the day before the election to not be a naturally born earthling and turns out to be an alien from another planet so was never an alive human to begin with?
More scary: What if a candidate had a stroke, but didn’t die, and went into a coma?
Q: What if a candidate had a stroke, but didn’t die, and went into a coma?
A: If elected, he or she would be the best President we ever had.
Richard was modest in his posting in not even mentioning the mention of himself in the article. The article by Steven Nelson made a slight error about Dem. VP nominee Sen. Thomas Eagleton in 1972. He was a previous electro shock therapy patient, not a current one as the article implies.