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2016 Postmortem

joshcryer

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3. Not a chance in hell. VP would have to resign in the event of succession.

Reply to MasonDreams (Original post)

Sun Oct 18, 2015, 04:07 AM

Oct 2015

Giving the Presidency to the Speaker of the House. The House is likely to stay in the hands of Republicans due to gerrymandering, so the very idea is pretty silly on its face, though it'd make history, it'd be a bad political move.

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who can be vice prez? Amendments 12&22 Clinton Bill & Obama [View all] MasonDreams Oct 2015 OP

A technical reading of the 22th amendment is that they can be VP jfern Oct 2015 #1

Neither has any remote possibility of happening. n/t PoliticAverse Oct 2015 #2

Not a chance in hell. VP would have to resign in the event of succession. joshcryer Oct 2015 #3

A vice president must be eligible to become President. SheilaT Oct 2015 #4

I was going to post the same thing MiniMe Oct 2015 #5

They are eligible!! read the 22nd & 12th Amendments MasonDreams Oct 2015 #6