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Honeycombe8

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6. I don't know 'bout that. VPs almost never go on to be President.

Reply to Moostache (Reply #3)

Fri Jun 22, 2018, 12:31 PM

Jun 2018

I think there have been one or two? But generally they are marked as second bananas and never go on to the higher office. (You can't include LBJ or Harry Truman, because of those unique circumstances.)

Bush Sr. was a VP who was elected President later.

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