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Anyone know who his VP pick will be? I know this won't happen but it'd be funny if he picked Obama.
by Hongwei 6y ago
Anyone know who his VP pick will be? I know this won't happen but it'd be funny if he picked Obama.
- arthurcolle 6y agoI feel like it'll probably be Kamala
- tfandango 6y agoSeems like he should pick someone who will help him nab a swing state, also seems weird to me after that busing dust-up.
- sremani 6y agoKamala Harris (take it to the bank!)
- dralley 6y agoObviously nobody knows that. Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Gretchen Whitmer, or Tammy Baldwin seem like reasonable guesses.
- arthurcolle 6y agoI don't think he would pick Elizabeth Warren. She's a powerful ally in the Senate.
- raydev 6y agoHer seat may be in danger, though.
- arthurcolle 6y agoIs that right? Didn't know, TIL. Don't really follow politics all that closely, although I am disappointed that Bernie didn't make it through these primaries.
- RickJWagner 6y agoHe did say he'd pick a woman of color. Warren would have to re-assert her native American ancestry.
- cfqycwz 6y agoIirc only people who would be eligible for the presidency can be elected as VP, which would disqualify Obama. This is the same reason Bernie couldn't have chosen AOC as his running mate
- GavinMcG 6y agoThere is no such restriction. Article II never specified any limit on how long someone could serve. The 22nd Amendment limits only who can be elected to the office of President. Since a VP becomes President through devolution, not election, it doesn't limit who may serve as VP.
- dudul 6y agoIsn't there a 10 year limit as well though? Especially for this case where someone serves as president without being elected? That being said, I'm not sure either if the restriction in the parent exists. Edit: a reference I found afterwards https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Term_of_office#Federal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Term_of_office#Federal
- GavinMcG 6y agoNot exactly. The 22nd Amendment would prohibit the second election of someone who had served for more than two years without having been elected. For example, if Gerald Ford had been elected president after he finished Nixon's term, he would be ineligible to be elected a second time, since he initially served for a little over two years and five months. That doesn't change the fact that the 22nd Amendment only restricts the election of a president. If someone has already served in the office for ten years, they could still be the VP who upon whom the presidency devolves, because there is no constitutional restriction on such eligibility.
- ardy42 6y ago> The 22nd Amendment limits only who can be elected to the office of President. Since a VP becomes President through devolution, not election, it doesn't limit who may serve as VP. So it would be constitutional to give Obama a third term through a Putin-esque sham where Biden runs at the top of the ticket then immediately resigns after taking office?
- nogabebop23 6y agoI think he already committed to having a woman VP, so extra unlikely.
- AnimalMuppet 6y agoThere's another Obama, you know. [Edit: Though I don't think that's what Hongwei meant...]
- e15ctr0n 6y agoYes, Michelle Obama.