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joshcryer

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3. Not a chance in hell. VP would have to resign in the event of succession.
Sun Oct 18, 2015, 04:07 AM
Oct 2015

Giving the Presidency to the Speaker of the House. The House is likely to stay in the hands of Republicans due to gerrymandering, so the very idea is pretty silly on its face, though it'd make history, it'd be a bad political move.

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