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There’s some dispute about that.

From Amendment 12:
But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.

From Amendment 22:
1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.

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As I see it, he is ineligible to the office of President — even if you argue he can serve less than two years as Acting President, what if there is a vacancy in the first two years? There is no way to force him to resign — presumably the newly chosen Vice President and a majority of the cabinet could force him out at the end of two years, but I wouldn’t count on it. He could be impeached and convicted as well — but the Dems would argue it wasn’t a high crime or misdemeanor to illegally occupy the office of President.

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Ooh...here’s a good argument...”eligible” and “elect” share the same root linguistically. So someone ineligible to the office of the President (”cannot be elected”) is also ineligible to the office of Vice President.