Imagine the following scenario: On the 9th of January 2024 in the morning we wake up to news that President of the USA Joe Biden suffered a stroke and died in White House. The administration confirms that the death was entirely natural and no third party contributed to it. Even before the news reach all TV stations another one breaks: Former president of the USA Donald Trump has suffered a cardiac arrest and died in his residence in Mar a Lago. Early reports claim that the site was secure and no malicious actor could reasonably reach Mr. Trump so the death is most likely natural.
What happens then?
if Trump died tomorrow, there would be zero impact anywhere… it would be like a fart passing by and then nothing…
At minimum there would be mass celebration across the country, and some worldwide
if people want to celebrate a fart
“Trump” is synonymous with “fart” in British English. Plenty of Americans already did celebrate and vote for a fart.
The world would be a better place!
Who am I kidding, America would just decend even further into anarchy, dragging everyone else with them…
Neither have been elected yet. The Democrat and Republican parties would both nominate new candidates for president and then people would vote on them..Wait, if you’re talking about after they’ve been elected then the vice president becomes the president, followed by the speaker of the house if the vice president is incapacitated.
Neither have been elected yet.
I’m pretty sure they’ve both been elected as president. Biden is even currently president, and I don’t think he was appointed or anything.
You have a fair point there.
Since in OPs hypothetical they specified the Jan 9 date and that Biden had been elected, I misspoke.
tbf I didn’t read the OP beyond the title! Haha
Cheers!
uhh the vice president takes over, and the parties pick new candidates.
pretty basic actually.
Kamala Harris becomes president and both primaries will elect someone.
I’m not sure anyone on the dem side would primary Harris, however. If she is primaried, Gavin Newsome would probably be sworn in about this time next year.
On edit: jmho
Neoliberalism would live on…
A new holiday would be created and we’d party for a week straight.
Honestly, I think if Trump died instantaneous there would be a massive movement claiming that the current Administration was the cause of death and they would use the most recent judicial hearing regarding Seal Team 6 as evidence towards it. There would be no proof of anything because like you said it was a natural death but that would not be enough to prove anything and I believe there would still be riots
As for if the president dropped dead, the vice president would take over and there would likely be an investigation into an assassination attempt but I don’t think anything would come out of it because like mentioned it would be a natural death.
Why? Are you thinking about doing this country a favor?
Sanely, the vice president takes over for the duration of the term and the primary goes as usual, just missing the two previous top picks. That being said we live in a society with a disturbing amount of violent conspiracy theorists so no telling what the aftermath of that one would be.
BEER THIRTY, HONKY TONK TIME
Dancing and singing in the streets
We’d have a real election race that’s for sure
Green party sweeps
some people are happy, some are sad. then we all get on with our miserable lives
