They are all there tonight, Hillary, Obama, Biden. Unusual to have them all in the same place at the same time.
Guess Ryan is third in succession and at a different location.
Nope John Kerry out telling people refrigerators are bad
Nope. John Kerry falls behind Paul Ryan and Orrin Hatch. For John Kerry to become President, Barack 0bama, Joe Biden, Paul Ryan, and Orrin Hatch would all have to die or be incapacitated, and their replacements not appointed and confirmed.
This is a list of the current Presidential line of succession, as specified by the United States Constitution and the Presidential Succession Act of 1947 as subsequently amended to include newly created cabinet offices. The succession follows the order of Vice President, Speaker of the House, President
pro tempore of the Senate, and the cabinet, which currently has fifteen members, beginning with the Secretary of State.
1 Vice President Joe Biden (D)
2 Speaker of the House of Representatives Paul Ryan (R)
3 President pro tempore of the Senate Orrin Hatch (R)
4 Secretary of State John Kerry (D)
5 Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew (D)
6 Secretary of Defense Ash Carter (D)
7 Attorney General Loretta Lynch (D)
— Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell (D) (acquired U.S. citizenship by naturalization and thus ineligible for the Presidency.)
8 Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack (D)
9 Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker (D)
10 Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez (D)
11 Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia Mathews Burwell (D)
12 Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julián Castro (D)
13 Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx (D)
14 Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz (D)
15 Secretary of Education John King (D)
16 Secretary of Veterans Affairs Bob McDonald (R)
17 Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson (D)