Bernie could actually be the candidate. Or, maybe Biden. Who knows?
Posted on 03/29/2020 2:23:19 PM PDT by LexBaird
Does anyone know what the legal process becomes if, after a Presidential candidate gets the nomination of a Party but before the General Election, that candidate dies or becomes totally incapacitated?
I bring to mind when the Missouri Senator Mel Carnahan died in a plane crash and was elected anyway, with his widow being appointed. Does the Party just get to substitute in whomever they want?
With Bernie having heart issues and Joe slipping deeper into dementia (or back in 2016, with HRC passing out regularly), is there any established law or procedure to handle this sort of thing?
AOC is too young so not eligible at this time.
The question wasn’t about what the Constitution says, because it is silent on the nomination process, except for candidate qualifications to hold the office.
The question was about what happens before the ballots are ever cast if a candidate became incapacitated or deceased. Presumably, the Electors cannot pick someone unqualified under the Constitution, and being dead or incapacitated are specifically mentioned as disqualifications.
lol
and collect a check maybe!
I believe the VP candidate would become the Candidate if it is a Republican. If Democrat it could be anyone at all.
-PJ
Bernie could actually be the candidate. Or, maybe Biden. Who knows?
Well...idiots do special things...........
In my college days I knew a jock who for years had had lesbian couples as roommates.
He told me it’s mostly political posturing; there’s really no such thing as a lesbian.
One or the other of the lesbos was always out of town, or volunteering for some collective or other, leaving her partner home with the cats, and horny as hellm
A battery-operated friend can only take a girl so far, he said, and all he had to do was step in and fill the void. Those were his words.
It was like shacking up with the Doublemint Twins, he said, and neither girl ever ratted him out, because that would blow their lesbian cover.
A plot (very thin) for many an adult oriented video.
Ah!
If it's after the election but before the electors vote in December, the electors are free agents. The party would probably pick someone and tell him to vote for them, though.
If it's after the electors vote, the vice-president-elect becomes president-elect.
At least, that's my understanding.
Horace Greeley died in 1872. Most electors voted for the VP Candidate B. Gratz Brown, yes.
Tom Eagleton resigned in 1972 (just a coincidence?) R. Sargent Shriver was approved by the Democrat National Committee (not the convention).
Usually in such a case the candidate is considered to be dead. Democrats will often make exceptions.
Mainly what happens is the individual is dead. Beyond that it depends on what the party wants to do and, then , what the voters do.
WOW
Sounds like a porno movie :)
“Andrew, I have very important information to disclose to you, but it must be in person. Meet me in Fort Marcy Park at midnight.”
“I never thought that this would happen to me...”
We’ll probably find out this year. Joe Biden didn’t off himself.
LOL
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