Posted on 09/11/2016 9:22:12 AM PDT by doug from upland
Question What happens to a U.S. presidential candidate if he/she dies after their respective political party grants them the nomination, and before they are elected? Are there bylaws set up by each individual party that provide procedures for this? Also, is there a historical precedent in U.S. history where this may have happened in the past?
Answer No presidential candidate of a major party has ever died or withdrawn before a presidential election and no President-elect has ever died or withdrawn after winning the general election, but before taking office.
However, one vice-presidential candidate died after he was nominated, but before the general election, and another dropped off his party's ticket.
The procedures for finding replacements for candidate vacancies are guided by federal and state laws and party regulations. They are not exactly a patchwork, but they have evolved in response to practical problems that have arisen during the presidential elections, and in response to the growth of political parties as integral players in the election process.
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I would say “fingers crossed” but that would be deplorable.
This guy barely got into office - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Harrison
ping
“Unprecedented” - _Resident for the Foreseeable Future Obama.
The Democrats in the media, most likely on Morning Joe on Monday morning will be suggesting Biden as a replacement for Hillary.
Lots of polls early in the week to determine the national and swing state popularity of not just Biden, but Sanders and Kaine.
DNC will meet late in the week.
Biden-Kaine
I want Hillary to survive.
She’s so unlikable that I can barely keep up with the voters switching sides to President Trump.
And that’s good.
I would think the DNC would convene a meeting and consider the 2nd runner-up who would be Sanders.
I don’t think the dems would be much worried though, for reasons described here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3468158/posts
“..Are there bylaws set up by each individual party that provide procedures for this? Also, is there a historical precedent in U.S. history where this may have happened in the past?...”
I doubt if ANY written bylaw that the RATS may have would be followed. They will do just what they want to do as ALWAYS. Nobody will challenge them, certainly not the complicit Congress, Obama’s FEC, etc.
Horace Greeley almost forced this issue, but he had no chance of winning against Grant.
On the bright side, some states are/will commence early voting very soon. The system designed to stuff ballot boxes for the rats will work to their disadvantage if The Beast morts or pulls out of the race a month or so before the election.
Let me cut through all the “what ifs”:
The Democrats are essentially stuck with Hillary. The election is already underway in certain states, and soon will be underway in them all. There’s early voting, and absentee ballots being sent out.
If Hillary were to die or otherwise be removed from the ticket, her name would still be on the ballot even if, in accordance with their rules, they replaced her (such as by nominating Tim Kaine for President and a token heterosexual for V.P.). The confusion would be devastating to the Democrats.
Hillary will have a VERY ABBREVIATED campaign schedule so she minimizes the chances of yet another feinting spell in public and maybe recover from her hacking cough. She will be shot will horse drugs. She’ll be propped up, put on autopilot, replaced by a cardboard cutout. It’ll be Weekend at Bernie’s, only with Hillary as Bernie.
I don’t know the amswer. But I have read many stories of dead people still being on the ballot ... and even being elected in some cases.
Hillary's not the only corrupt democrat... she's just the most obvious. The people whose eyes have been opened might NOT readily go back to any democrat.
Given the rules as stated in the article, the winning party "appoints" her replacement. This could go many ways including appointing obummer as her replacement. This would bypass the 22nd amendement on term limits.
Section 1 of the amendment states:
"No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice.."
The argument would be he is not being elected, he is being appointed as a selected replacement for the winner.
The closest the U.S. has ever been to a situation you describe is the assassination of Bobby Kennedy in 1968. He had just won the California primary and was expected to be a serious challenge to Humphrey at the Democrat National Convention a couple of months later.
Nothing to be concerned about.
People always overheat a little when they face-plant on the floor of a Secret Service van.
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