But what about those elections if Trump is too sick? “That doesn’t really matter,” says Kerremans. “Then Mike Pence will just become temporary acting president. On November 3 we will see who wins. The new president will not take office until January 20, 2021. So even if Trump falls into a coma and only wakes up after November 3, there will be doesn’t really matter. “
And what if Trump dies? “Then we are in a peculiar situation,” says Frank Albers, lecturer in American Culture at the University of Antwerp. “Pence would then become president, but actually he is not automatically a candidate for the election. The Republican Party then has to decide who will be on the ballot. Only, millions of votes have already been cast. So, they actually vote for a dead person. president “, Albers wonders.
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