Dear Greg T:This is one of the funniest yet.
That would be fun to see. This is just one of those..WTF momentsDear Greg T:
I wonder if Las Vegas would quote any odds on that happening.
Well, ya can't say they don't have a strange imagination.President Ryan voluntarily stepping down to allow vice president Hillary Clinton to ascend to the Oval Office. How ridiculous and bizarre can it get?
Why would the position go to someone not currently holding office? The hierarchy should be and only include those currently holding office.Just a curious question though.....
If this were true and did/ could happen, how does Ryan become President?
I thought he becomes President if Trump, and Pence get knocked off....
This would be a different situation in which the original election was between Trump and Clinton,
so wouldn't go directly to her?
Not saying that there is a snowballs chance in hell of this being true, but I am just thinking of the scenario.
Why would the position go to someone not currently holding office? The hierarchy should be and only include those currently holding office.
Imagine back a few years when Ross Perot ran... would it make any sense to have Perot be the President if Clinton, Gore, H.W., and Quayle all had somehow died in 1993? after all, he was the next person in line that ran in the 1992 election (finishing 3rd).
To take it a step further, let's say Hillary had won in 2016. Would you advocate Trump becoming President in this manner supposing something happened to both Hillary and Kaine?
Chain of command:
1 Vice President Mike Pence (R)
2 Speaker of the House of Representatives Paul Ryan (R)
3 President pro tempore of the Senate Orrin Hatch (R)
4 Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (R)
5 Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin (R)
6 Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis (I)
7 Attorney General Jeff Sessions (R)
8 Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke (R)
9 Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue (R)
10 Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross (R)
11 Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta (R)
12 Secretary of Health and Human Services Eric Hargan (R)[a]
Acting
13 Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson (R)
– Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao (R)
14 Secretary of Energy Rick Perry (R)
15 Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos (R)
16 Secretary of Veterans Affairs David Shulkin (I)
17 Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen (I)
- Jump up^ This listing assumes that acting officers whose prior appointment required Senate confirmation are eligible for the line of succession. See Acting officers below.
- Jump up^ Not a natural-born citizen (acquired U.S. citizenship by naturalization) and thus ineligible for the Presidency.
Dear livespive:Because He were not in the election???
So I guess what you guys are saying is that the "election" would just become null and void until the next election and that is how Ryan gets in?
Dear livespive:
No ... Ryan could/would become president because of the specified ORDER OF SUCCESSION.
Someone correct me if I am wrong, but the order of succession also applies to the president being out of the country, ill or hospitalized, or for any other reason where he is unable to immediately fulfill his duties as the leader of the free world.So then the election is void?
I guess I have only thought of the order of succession when it comes to the president loosing his life, or impeachment.
I guess I was looking at the election as a limbo of sort, but I guess if a bomb would have hit during the debate and got them both Ryan would be in anyway
Um, he is the leader of the USA, not the entire free world.Someone correct me if I am wrong, but the order of succession also applies to the president being out of the country, ill or hospitalized, or for any other reason where he is unable to immediately fulfill his duties as the leader of the free world.
Oh, are we picking nits today?Um, he is the leader of the USA, not the entire free world.
Someone correct me if I am wrong, but the order of succession also applies to the president being out of the country, ill or hospitalized, or for any other reason where he is unable to immediately fulfill his duties as the leader of the free world.
Dear livespive:Right, but during election is there a president??? I can think of a few scenarios that would happen: