Importance of VP.
Few remember that so many boring ticket balancing VPs became the president later, some by death and others by election. LBJ was the opposite of JFK and we were stuck with him and his handling of the Vietnam War.
8 VPs became President after the death of the President:
John Tyler, Millard Fillmore, Andrew Johnson, Chester A. Arthur, Theodore Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, Harry S. Truman, and Lyndon B. Johnson. Gerald Ford did it through President Nixon’s resignation.
Four VPs have been elected president: John Adams in 1796, Thomas Jefferson in 1800, Martin Van Buren in 1836, and George H. W. Bush in 1988.
Two former VPs have won the presidency, Richard Nixon in 1968 and Joe Biden in 2020.
did you read the 3rd line of my post?