what happens if this social distancing is enhanced to where the elections are postponed or canceled?
does DJT remain president? does it pass to nutsy Pelosi? what?
Trump/Pence term ends on a specific date - election or no election. There is a formula as to what happens after and it's complicated. But the answer is that Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont would be named as POTUS pending another election.
It's a question that, as far as I know, has never been adjudicated. My best guess is that the winning argument will be that the electoral college will still be selected by each state and the process will be the same at that point as if there had been an election. Whatever happens, rest assured that the left will riot.
Patrick Leahy? why that prick? gimme details
Trump/Pence term ends on a specific date - election or no election. There is a formula as to what happens after and it's complicated. But the answer is that Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont would be named as POTUS pending another election.
This...
But, there will be voting come November. The outcome will go immediately to federal courts. The loser won't accept the results.
Mail-in voting is a recipe for massive democrat voter fraud....unprecedented.
The Constitution actually takes into account this scenario. And in this event the Republicans would lose the White House, the Senate and the House of Representatives. For no other reason than more Republican seats are up for election this year than Democratic seats. In the House, the Senate and, of course, the White House. So by having terms end by law it would give the Democrats the majority in both houses of congress and by some quirk in the process it would allow the longest tenured member of the majority party in the Senate to rise to POTUS. And that would be Sen. Leahy of Vermont.
And this is why we will have elections this November no matter what. No way an administration is going to allow this to happen to their detriment.
Wow Pat Leahy
It’s not enough that he’s a liberal socialist lifelong do nothing democrat BUT also spent all his career being a textbook POS
It's a question that, as far as I know, has never been adjudicated. My best guess is that the winning argument will be that the electoral college will still be selected by each state and the process will be the same at that point as if there had been an election. Whatever happens, rest assured that the left will riot.
........... Unless the left's chosen pick wins. Then it will be hailed as a totally legitimate victory for fairness and democracy and anyone that says otherwise will be a threat to democracy and an extremist radical attempting to overthrow the U.S. government. But if the left were to lose; well, then the riots, and more, will commence.
Did anyone mention that rolling nothing is an idiot?
Read the Constitution, boy, and learn something. It's in plain english.
There is NO US Constitutional provision for a popular vote for POTUS and VPOTUS, and there is NO US Gov 'managed' Election, each State Constitution, IIRC, directs it's EC voters to vote a certain way based on that States Popular Vote for POTUS and VPOTUS.....
In the absence of a State holding a popular vote for POTUS and V, the several States would need to provide other direction for their EC vote casters..............
I think...............
1824 was the first election where Electors were chosen by popular vote, 18 States..... also that year 6 States chose their electors by the State Legislature.....
Read the Constitution, boy, and learn something. It's in plain english.
This is why the left is dangerous. They plan much farther ahead than conservatives. Conservatives are worker bees that pay the bills, while the left is the crowd that plots and schemes for advantage.
Trump/Pence term ends on a specific date - election or no election. There is a formula as to what happens after and it's complicated. But the answer is that Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont would be named as POTUS pending another election.
Do they have to be real certified US born citizens to be POTUS.
Read the Constitution, boy, and learn something. It's in plain english.
How about you educate us?
You have been cucking over at DU too much.
Leahy ain't "it" anymore. (President pro tempore emeritus)
Does Chuck Grassley ring a bell?
'Tain't gonna happen McGee
Four more years. MAGA-KAG
Sorry I'm still cleaning up the tea that spewed out of my nose after reading the title of the thread.
pardon the lack of key stroke .
Read the Constitution, boy, and learn something. It's in plain english.
How about you educate us?
You have been cucking over at DU too much.
The Constitution does NOT speak to what happens if an election doesn't occur. It only speaks about what happens if the President dies, resigns, is removed, etc. The Presidential Succession Act is similar in this regard. I stand by my original analysis, as that is what the Constitution requires.
Trump/Pence term ends on a specific date - election or no election. There is a formula as to what happens after and it's complicated. But the answer is that Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont would be named as POTUS pending another election.
Do they have to be real certified US born citizens to be POTUS.
Yes.
Sorry I'm still cleaning up the tea that spewed out of my nose after reading the title of the thread.
thought that would cause some giggles!
Read the Constitution, boy, and learn something. It's in plain english.
How about you educate us?
You have been cucking over at DU too much.
Leahy ain't "it" anymore. (President pro tempore emeritus)
Does Chuck Grassley ring a bell?
There are 23 republican seats that would expire without an election. There are 13 democratic seats that would expire without an election. This means that the dems hold the majority. The president pro tempore is Leahy, not Grassley, in this case.
Mail-in voting is a recipe for massive democrat voter fraud....unprecedented.
Very true.
Read the Constitution, boy, and learn something. It's in plain english.
How about you educate us?
You have been cucking over at DU too much.
Leahy ain't "it" anymore. (President pro tempore emeritus)
Does Chuck Grassley ring a bell?
There are 23 republican seats that would expire without an election. There are 13 democratic seats that would expire without an election. This means that the dems hold the majority. The president pro tempore is Leahy, not Grassley, in this case.
Keep dreamin'.
LOL.
Keep rollin'-your-own thunder.
If the EC can't elect a president, it goes to the house. If that happens, Trump wins. The catch is that each state gets 1 vote, regardless of population or # of reps, and there are more red states than blue. Right now, Idaho has 2 reps and CA has 53, but they each get 1 vote if it gets that far.
Trump/Pence term ends on a specific date - election or no election. There is a formula as to what happens after and it's complicated. But the answer is that Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont would be named as POTUS pending another election.
Do they have to be real certified US born citizens to be POTUS.
Yes.
Uhhh. Not always. (see 2008).
Trump/Pence term ends on a specific date - election or no election. There is a formula as to what happens after and it's complicated. But the answer is that Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont would be named as POTUS pending another election.
You dumb phugk. Have you EVER read the Constitution of the United States? EVER? Even in 9th grade Civics?
If the EC can't elect a president, it goes to the house. If that happens, Trump wins. The catch is that each state gets 1 vote, regardless of population or # of reps, and there are more red states than blue. Right now, Idaho has 2 reps and CA has 53, but they each get 1 vote if it gets that far.
Except that there wouldn't be a House, as representatives are elected for two years, and their term expires on Jan 3rd.
I knew this would turn into a farce with a question to campfire "constitutional scholars"
For a long time, there was no popular vote for President. Electors were selected, and they selected the President. We can get a new President without having a popular election.
If the EC can't elect a president, it goes to the house. If that happens, Trump wins. The catch is that each state gets 1 vote, regardless of population or # of reps, and there are more red states than blue. Right now, Idaho has 2 reps and CA has 53, but they each get 1 vote if it gets that far.
Except that there wouldn't be a House, as representatives are elected for two years, and their term expires on Jan 3rd.
The inauguration and changeover is Jan 20 while it's Jan 3 for congress. Here's a rundown of the procedure. There is no set procedure for the states to select their electors. They can be popularly elected, as is the case in all states right now, but they can also be appointed by the governor or maybe the state legislature. If there was no election, the states would have to quickly figure out how to chose them.
Following the national presidential election, which takes place the Tuesday after the first Monday of November, each state counts its popular votes according to that state's laws to designate presidential electors. In forty-eight states, the winner of the plurality of the statewide vote receives all of the electors; in Maine and Nebraska, two electors are assigned in this manner and one elector allocated based on the plurality of votes in each congressional district.[7] Electors are typically required to pledge to vote for the winning candidate, but there is an ongoing legal dispute about whether electors are required to vote as they pledged. State electors meet in their respective state capitals the first Monday after the second Wednesday of December to cast their votes.[8] The results are counted by Congress, where they are tabulated nationally in the first week of January before a joint meeting of the Senate and House of Representatives, presided over by the vice president, acting as president of the Senate.[9] If a majority of votes are not cast for a candidate, the House turns itself into a presidential election session, where one vote is assigned to each of the fifty states, excluding the District of Columbia. The elected president and vice president are inaugurated on January 20.
Again, the problem would be that there wouldn't be any representatives, since all of the current terms end on Jan 3rd. If the election were cancelled, no new reps would be able to take office on Jan 3rd.
Trump/Pence term ends on a specific date - election or no election. There is a formula as to what happens after and it's complicated. But the answer is that Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont would be named as POTUS pending another election.
.......Well Rolling TURDballs.........We won't need to worry about Lay HEEE being named POTUS.....You are quite the IDIOT!
In Idaho and many other states, the governor appoints a congressman to fill a vacancy. Other states have special elections. I suspect the supreme court would have to rule on how to fill the seats.
Again, the problem would be that there wouldn't be any representatives, since all of the current terms end on Jan 3rd. If the election were cancelled, no new reps would be able to take office on Jan 3rd.
Seems like a good start, to me!🤷♂️
pardon the lack of key stroke .
Well, you know, the thread title pretty much demanded it.