• albadellanotte@lemmygrad.ml
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    4 months ago

    Seeing how he looks everyday more like a zombie god may call him up soon.

    As a non-American I was wondering what happens if he dies let’s say 1 week before the vote. Kamala becomes president and also the candidate?

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      4 months ago

      From my understanding, yes she would be sworn in and function until the next candidate was elected.

      As she is the current VP candidate, I believe she would just get bumped up to the presidential candidate and they’d need to decide a new VP.

      Now what I am not quite sure of is what would happen if he died mid-election after people have already voted for him. Would they do another run of ballots? It ultimately wouldn’t matter much, but I would be curious what the mechanics would be.