Once Harris takes office, and names her VP, Pelosi is no longer in the running. The chain of succession is in case the President and Vice President are both killed or incapacitated at the same time. If the President goes down, the Vice President takes over. The speaker would be Acting Vice President until a new Vice President is appointed and confirmed. It would be a repeat of that process if it were to happen again.
Joe Biden goes down. Kamala Harris moves up. Nancy Pelosi moves over. Hillary Clinton moves in. Nancy Pelosi moves back. Kamala Harris goes down. Hillary Clinton moves up. Nancy Pelosi moves over. Susan Rice moves in. Nancy Pelosi moves back. Should take about 3 weeks.
I think I follows that. And chuckled. But you might be wrong.
Rice. Talk about a moron.
Soros is too easy a pick to the the puppet master and Soetero ain’t it.
Wrong. LBJ did not have a VP until he ran and was reelected in 1964. During that time before reelection, we did not have a VP or acting VP.
Obama could be appointed VP, then become president again.
The Speaker is never Vice President. If there is neither a functioning President, or Vice President, the Speaker occupies the Office of President, upon taking the oath fo office, and holds it until a duly elected President, or duly elected, or confirmed by Congress upon nomination by the President, Vice President, qualifies for office and takes the oath. At which point the former Speaker, and former President, becomes a private citizen, because they vacated both Office of Speaker, and their seat in the House, when they took the oath as President.
Until the Speaker of the House, or President Pro-Tem of the Senate take the oath and become President, the duties of the Office of President are executed by cabinet members who are eligible to become President, in order of seniority of the creation of their departments, beginning with the Secretary of State.
I got flamed royally on January 20. 2017, for posting a vanity pointing out that, for the a few seconds between noon, Eastern Times, and when Trump finished taking the oath as President, John Kerry, the Secretary of State, could execute the powers of the Office of President, and give Hillary Clinton a full, Presidential Pardon.