Where Has Kamala Harris Been For Seven Months?

Daily Caller ^ | January 16, 2023 8:07 PM ET | DIANA GLEBOVA, WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT

[Political Junkie Too]

Not DQ, but split.

The presidential candidate would have gotten the votes, and the VP candidate from the other party would also have gotten the votes, too.

-PJ

[Political Junkie Too]

And I'm sure they would be able to pick off five Republicans in the House to support the new VP nominee, making it impossible for McCarthy to influence the timing and the choice of her replacement.

Unless she's run over by a yellow school bus, in which case McCarthy would become President.

-PJ

[Red Badger]

Other than casting a ‘break the tie’ vote in the Senate, and a couple of ceremonial duties, there is absolutely nothing required for a VP to do.

She could go on a 4 year vacation and never set foot in DC................

[Political Junkie Too]

It's harder for Democrats when Republicans have Florida and Texas (70 EV) to the Democrats California and New York (82 EV).

Give California's 54 EV to Republicans and the path for Democrats becomes nearly impossible.

Actually, it splits the EV, not awards the whole of it. So, the Democrat presidential candidate gets California's 54 EV and the Republican VP candidate gets California's 54 EV. It would probably put a split ticket into the White House.

-PJ

[cableguymn]

You can’t have open borders and a welfare state willing to support them.

[Verginius Rufus]

Dick Cheney changed his voter registration to Wyoming in 2000 when he was picked as GWB's running mate. Otherwise the Texas electors could not have voted for both of them.

Kamala could pick Newsom for VP, but they could not both run on the 2024 ticket unless one of them changed official state of residency.

[Verginius Rufus]

If Biden were to step down and then Kamala was run over before a new VP was sworn in, McCarthy would “act as President.” The Constitution is not clear if he would actually be President or just “Acting President.” Maybe the Congressional law on succession spells it out more clearly.

[Responsibility2nd]

Boy that’s confusing.

[Responsibility2nd]

Kamala could pick Newsom for VP, but they could not both run on the 2024 ticket unless one of them changed official state of residency

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Not true. See post 23.

It would be foolish to do it. They would risk losing their state electors. But they could do it.

[Political Junkie Too]

Yes, Acting President.

"Acting President" is most commonly used when the elected President is still alive but incapacitated. This assumes that the President will resume the office once the incapacitation is resolved.

However, when a President dies, the Constitution formally elevates the Vice President to the office of President. The Presidential Succession Act expands the line of succession through the House, Senate, then Cabinet members in order of the creation of their departments. It is here that the phase "acts as President" is preserved.

Since there is no provision for voting for a new President, one must assume that the "acting President" from deeper in the line of succession becomes the President just as the Vice President becomes President.

-PJ

[Political Junkie Too]

Yes, it is. Ratified in 1803, the 12th amendment is a hold-over from the era before party bloc politics dominated the way the Electoral College voted. The Electoral College is a brilliant system to give each state a say in the choice of the executive of the federal system, but the mechanics of it has become warped over time.

I believe that in the early days, the Electoral College was made up of city and town leaders from each state, and they voted as individuals for whom they thought were the best people for President and Vice President, subject to the restriction that they could only vote for one person from the same state as themselves. This was also from the period when three, four, five or more people ran for president (nobody ran for Vice President) and the #2 vote-getter became Vice President.

Today, the party candidates are treated is an indivisible pair (though technically they are not), and the Electoral College is a slate of pre-vetted members of the state party delegation who rubber-stamp the ticket. Voters in each state are voting for the slate of Electors, who then rubber-stamp the their party's pair of candidates.

It would be wild if we had some kind of reform that did away with voting for a Vice President, and made everybody run only for President, letting the Electoral College assemble the final offices like in the old way.

-PJ

[Chode]

100%

[TheElectionWasStolen]

On her knees?

[Political Junkie Too]

Just to be clear, post-12th amendment people did run separately for President and Vice President, but they didn't always run as a "ticket." The Electoral College voted for President from the list of people running for President, and separately for Vice President from a separate list of people running for Vice President.

Today, both a President and Vice President run together as one. It would be interesting to see how things might go if people ran separately for each office and the Electoral College picked the President and Vice President separately.

-PJ

[Reily]

As the Founding Fathers intended!

The national prom king\queen contest that we have now has about run its course. Maybe we should go back to the Founder’s original system! PM’s in parliamentary systems are not picked by the population finding the most “sexy” candidate! Picking the Prez & VPrez should occur after the state legislative elections. The new legislatures pick the electors who then select the Prez & VPrez from the two lists the parties provide or maybe someone out of the blue.