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what happens if a president-elect dies before inauguration? (Original Post)
still_one
Nov 2016
OP
I know. What I was wondering about is who becomes President? It wouldn't necessarily be the
still_one
Nov 2016
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HipChick
(25,485 posts)1. Xmas
came early?
still_one
(92,394 posts)2. I know. What I was wondering about is who becomes President? It wouldn't necessarily be the
VP I don't think because the President never assumed office
BlueStater
(7,596 posts)3. The Vice President-elect would be inaugurated as president.
Yeah, we're screwed no matter what.
eShirl
(18,503 posts)4. Before or after the Electoral College formalizes the electoral vote?
still_one
(92,394 posts)5. Let's say before.
Shrek
(3,983 posts)9. Jeff Greenfield wrote a novel about this
There aren't actually any rules around this contingency.
https://www.amazon.com/Peoples-Choice-Cautionary-Tale/dp/1559351942
ABC news commentator Greenfield gives a deft satiric spin to his first novel, a cautionary tale about the electing of the U.S. president. The country is set into a constitutional tailspin two days after the November election when President-elect MacArthur Foyle, a conservative Republican, dies as a result of a rodeo accident. Vice President-elect Ted Block, universally acclaimed as "a step or two slow out of the cognitive gate," looks to be a shoo-in for the Oval Office until a renegade member of the electoral college, Dorothy Ledger, an office manager of a Michigan Bank & Trust, balks at having to vote for the moderate veep. Ledger, joined by a New Jersey plumber, a Texas history professor and a CalTech computer-whiz dropout, orchestrates a campaign that leads to other electors willing to change or withhold their votes. Meanwhile, a menagerie of cynics and opportunists led by D.C. "political powerbroker" Jack Petitcon, the megawealthy, self-styled "Hebrew from the Bayou," and W. Dixon Mason, a rhyming, dissembling, African American preacher, moves toward endorsing its own favorite candidate. Suspense depends on who will prevail: VP-elect Block, the ailing Democratic incumbent or the candidate of splintered factions.
hlthe2b
(102,358 posts)6. Before inauguration, Obama is President, but if electoral college had met & voted in the evil duo,
I suppose they would hurriedly proceed to swear in (or more literally, for us, swear AT), Pence. After Pence in the chain of command is that abysmal little squirm, Paul Ryan, so as was previously stated, we are screwed regardless.
malaise
(269,157 posts)7. This
At our home
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)8. You got something going on?
I'm cool. Say no more
gollygee
(22,336 posts)10. I imagine we'd have a president Pence.
I can imagine him having some health problems, but I don't think this is very likely to become an issue.