All Along The Watchtower
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« on: October 26, 2020, 08:18:28 PM » |
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Considering that the Vice President is a constitutional officer elected separately from the President, rather than a presidential appointee of any kind, the answer is No.
The more interesting question to me is whether the President can fill a vice presidential vacancy with a family member. Imagine Richard Nixon replacing Spiro Agnew not with Gerald Ford but with Pat Nixon - yet Richard Nixon still resigns, so Pat Nixon takes over and the First Man is...Richard Nixon.
(Wait, wasn't this the premise of the final season of the Netflix remake of House of Cards?)
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