Re: [BET] Trump or not Trump 2020, eddie13 vs suchmoon

Senate would pick the VP -- giving it to Pence.

Presumably, the Senate would know in advance who the House will elect as President, so if Biden is going to be elected by the House, the Senate would probably elect Trump as VP.

Given Biden's mental state, he is likely to be much more than a figurehead President, and will probably not be able to serve his entire term as just a figurehead.

If Biden is President and Trump is VP, you may actually see democrats calling for Biden to either be impeached or to step down so Trump would not be eligible for a 3rd term if he serves less than 2 years as actual President after the 2020 election.

If you think politics were filled with drama today....

It is not constitutional for a president to serve a 3rd term, even by this convoluted route. He would not even be eligible for VP. Very interesting narrative though.

Prime is correct. If he serves for less than 2 years after replacing Biden, he could be elected for a second time and serve 4 more years.

Prime is saying the dems would force Biden out so Trump would be forced to serve more than 2 years and therefore ineligible to run in 2024. (surely Trump would resign 1 day before he hit the 2 year mark though, right?)

Here's the constitution:

Section 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 President more than once. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this Article was proposed by Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.

Section 2. This Article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission to the States by the Congress.

In this context the terms "president" and "vice president" are interchangeable, thus it is unconstitutional.

Biden would already be ineligible then. He's been elected President/Vice President twice.

I might be misunderstanding you though. What makes you think vice president and president are interchangeable.