2024 Election - Thread #1

[robkelk]

Just has a pessimistic thought, which is more likely than the GOP launching the voter-fraud investigations that they promised. ("Small but non-zero" is more likely than "zero".)

His Orangeness is 78 years old and lives in a country where the average life expectancy is 79. It's statistically possible -- roughly a coin-toss if one ignores the medical care that millionaires can buy -- that he might go to sleep and never wake up again before he's sworn in.

If that happens, who becomes President?

Until His Orangeness is sworn in, Biden is still President. Article II, Section 1, Clause 6 of the United States Constitution and the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution don't apply to his successor's running mate... yet. (Although Biden turns 82 on November 20, so if he goes to sleep and never wakes up again before his successor is sworn in, his VP gets to be President for a few weeks or days.)