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by gehwartzen 440 days ago
So what does that mean? Run as VP and have the president resign after taking office?
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Or just claim fraud, and refuse to leave. See if the military will back you or not. He's got 4 years to keep weakening institutions and installing loyalist generals.
> what does that mean?

One would be causing red states to vote their Electors for Big Bird or whatever, thereby ensuring that “no Person have a Majority” of electoral votes [1], thus punting the Presidency to the House. (That or having Vance just throw out “bad” votes, again, throwing the election to the House.)

[1] https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/article-2/

I’m pretty sure to be VP you have to be an eligible P candidate.

“ But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.”