Who will Kamala pick for her current VP? if Joe quits he needs to also resign.
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We don’t know who they would pick & neither do the democrats.
The new VP would have to be approved by the House & Senate by a majority vote. The Republicans currently hold the House and could nix any VP they don’t like.
Even if they get a VP through, that VP could get replaced at the convention.(Hypothetically, so could Harris but it won’t happen.)
I think they’ll keep riding with the “Weekend at Bernie’s” guy because they don’t have a choice or a plan at the moment.
Good points.
Can see there being no VP for a while.
To run I think she will pick Whitmer.
Have to add Harris is an illegitimate VP.
Or, we could go without a VP for 6 months.
Until the 25th Amendment, though, when a vice presidential vacancy popped up, the new president (sometimes the old VP) just left that No. 2 chair open until a new election. John Tyler, who took over for William Henry Harrison (who died of pneumonia just 31 days into his term), never had a VP in almost four years as president. Lyndon Johnson, who took over for John F. Kennedy in November 1963, was without a VP for more than a year until Hubert H. Humphrey filled the spot after the 1964 election.
Even after the 25th Amendment, filling a vice presidential opening hasn’t been particularly snappy. It’s happened twice since the 25th’s passage in ‘67.
The office of vice president was empty for a couple of months in 1973 after Nixon’s vice president, Spiro Agnew, resigned, until Gerald Ford was cleared to fill the spot.
When Nixon later quit in August 1974, and Ford became president, he had no vice president for more than four months, until Nelson Rockefeller finally was confirmed by Congress.