I don’t know what happens if both candidates are hospitalized but I’m pretty sure Pence becomes president & the election is canceled soooooo
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Replying to @Glides @Nymphomachy
Which is my point. “Very ugly” means people die. Which is why I recommend people start hunkering down & planning ahead.
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The rules literally do not say you cancel the election The general election automatically goes ahead unless Congress passes a law suspending/delaying it If a candidate dies or becomes incapacitated, the party just transfers their electors to a new one
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Glides and
I.e. even if Biden died *after* the general election the party committee could just vote that Harris is the replacement for Biden as the Democratic nominee (or anyone else -- Sanders, Warren, whoever) and transfer all of his votes to her
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Glides and
This goes against most people's simplistic understanding of how it works but it's how it works You don't actually directly vote for the President according to the Constitution, you vote for electors in the Electoral College, who are pledged based on party affiliation
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Glides and
(It could in theory be anybody because -- and this is also controversial, but true -- a party is a private organization and the party committee can make their nominee be anyone they want, and the whole democratic primary system is something they voluntarily choose to abide by)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Glides and
(However in practice it would almost certainly be Harris because that's the "logical" choice that would piss the fewest people off Although given the state of the Democratic electorate I'm sure a lot of people would argue it should be the primary runner-up and not the VP pick)
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imagine if they chose hillary clinton
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There's a podcaster earnestly pinning red strings to a whiteboard arguing this is what they've been planning all along
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