(March 25, 2020 at 5:31 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:Nope..(March 25, 2020 at 4:55 pm)onlinebiker Wrote: Nope...
If Biden and Trump die just before the election - the running mates do NOT get an automatic bump up to presidential candidate......
You are confusing Presidents and Presidential candidates and the rules they live under.......
If the Electoral College wanted to vote for Pence or Biden's VP candidate - they would have to do so by write in vote - as neither was an official party candidate.... I seem to recall that several states don't even allow that.
So the outcome would be a 3rd party candidate...
Ok, I did a bit more checking. We’re both kinda right and kinda wrong.
If both president candidates die before the election, the VP candidates don’t automatically move into the top spot (point for you).
BUT the Electoral College doesn’t pick the new candidates - the parties do. The likeliest scenario is that they would pick the surviving running mates, since they already have the election machinery in place for those people and no other (point for me).
This puts the likelihood of a third party candidate at essentially nil (no points awarded).
Boru
The parties have rules about picking the candidate - and the States have rules for Electoral College and elections themselves.
I do not know of any state that can make a change in selection of candidate at the last minute (weeks or so) - nor any state that allows last minute changes on the ballot......
It's "run whatcha brung"......
