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A Presidential Candidate Dies - Who Takes Over?
« on: September 12, 2008, 05:15:27 PM »
I just read that the FBI is investigating a potential Obama assassin.  Which begs the question: If Obama (or McCain for that matter) dies before election night, who takes over their slots?  Do Biden or Palin get bumped up?  Do the primary second place (Huckabee or Clinton) move up?  Do they run a new primary?  Is there even a precedence or set of rules for this? 

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Re: A Presidential Candidate Dies - Who Takes Over?
« Reply #1 on: September 12, 2008, 05:17:20 PM »
Palin or Biden take over... can't remember where it is... Article 23? Anywho, yeah the VP nom goes on.

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Re: A Presidential Candidate Dies - Who Takes Over?
« Reply #2 on: September 12, 2008, 05:18:08 PM »
I think the primary runner up should get the spot, what did the VPs do other than be picked?  Just doesn't seem right all the hard work the runners up did should be discarded.
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Re: A Presidential Candidate Dies - Who Takes Over?
« Reply #3 on: September 12, 2008, 06:10:35 PM »
A viewer asked this question on 8/4/2000:

Heaven for bid that this should happen...


However, once a presidential nominee has accepted the nomination from his party (either Democratic or Republican or other) and prior to the election, he/she becomes ill, incapacitated, or die...who then succeeds him/her as the in the election process??? Where can I find a reference to this answer???


Thank you kindly for assisting me in understanding the political process










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JesseGordon gave this response on 8/4/2000:

First of all, the Constitution is silent on this issue -- for that matter, it's silent on anything to do with political parties at all. So there's no Constitutional guidance at all.


Second, this HAS happened, or pretty close, in 1968, when Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated. He was killed in June after winning the California (and numerous other) primaries; the convention was in August. RFK would presumably have been the nominee had he not been killed.


I'm not too sure what his delegates at the convention did, but the Democrats picked Hubert Humphrey as the candidate. It was a turbulent convention, for all sorts of reasons, but RFK's death was part of the reason.


To answer the question, I assume it's entirely up to the party who has lost a candidate to decide what to do. It would seem polite to have the candidate who came in second in the primaries (McCain or Bradley) take over, but more likely there would be a special convention to choose a new candidate.


To be further polite, I would hope that the elections got postponed from November, to allow a fair race. The Constitution doesn't mandate November elections, so I guess that would be determined by Congress. But the surviving (opposing) candidate would prefer a quick election that he was pretty assured of winning, so who knows what Congress would do.


The other situation where this almost happened was with Pres. William Henry Harrison in 1841. He got ill immediately upon taking office (some say it was at his inauguration itself) and died 3 months later. His V.P., John Tyler, took over. Harrison was the first president to die in office.



and or

If a candidate dies, it's up to his (or her) party to find a
replacement. This would be true for the Vice Presidential "*and*
Presidential candidate.

The U.S. Constitution allows that if the President-elect dies, then
the Vice President-elect will be sworn in as President. (If the
Electoral College hasn't voted yet, then the Electoral College may, at
their discretion, choose somebody else.) (See "President Elect" at
Word IQ: http://www.wordiq.com/definition/President-elect ) To view
this section of the Constitution, see "Amendment 20, Section 3:"
http://iwhome.com/Constitution/cns1/cns179.htm


also
http://books.google.com/books?id=n1wJ_vGjkSQC&pg=PA361&lpg=PA361&dq=Presidential++candidate+succession&source=web&ots=6pl162P8mm&sig=pdHm0wzw0WuyPt6SucLmwrYvoww&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=6&ct=result

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Re: A Presidential Candidate Dies - Who Takes Over?
« Reply #4 on: September 12, 2008, 06:13:01 PM »
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Re: A Presidential Candidate Dies - Who Takes Over?
« Reply #5 on: September 12, 2008, 06:59:13 PM »
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Re: A Presidential Candidate Dies - Who Takes Over?
« Reply #6 on: September 12, 2008, 06:59:42 PM »
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Re: A Presidential Candidate Dies - Who Takes Over?
« Reply #8 on: September 12, 2008, 07:05:35 PM »
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Re: A Presidential Candidate Dies - Who Takes Over?
« Reply #9 on: September 12, 2008, 08:29:28 PM »
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Re: A Presidential Candidate Dies - Who Takes Over?
« Reply #10 on: September 12, 2008, 09:04:07 PM »
I think there was a thread about this the other day. Someone was kind enough to look up the regulation with authority in that situation. VP elect takes over.
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Re: A Presidential Candidate Dies - Who Takes Over?
« Reply #11 on: September 12, 2008, 09:20:39 PM »
I think there was a thread about this the other day. Someone was kind enough to look up the regulation with authority in that situation. VP elect takes over.

You are correct....if it happens AFTER the election. The question posed in the original post was what happens if say.....Obama dies BEFORE the election.  :)
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Re: A Presidential Candidate Dies - Who Takes Over?
« Reply #12 on: September 12, 2008, 09:28:37 PM »
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Re: A Presidential Candidate Dies - Who Takes Over?
« Reply #13 on: September 13, 2008, 07:29:26 AM »
if it is before the election the party will select a new candidate to run for elaction.