• stoly@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    I agree. This starts with Nixon and Ford giving a pardon was a huge mistake. The US needs to have a president actually go down. Until then, it’s really a dictatorship.

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        6 days ago

        Well that was devised before parties existed. The most popular candidate was president and the person with the second most votes became vice president. It was a way to force compromise but, of course, we amended the constitution to have P and VP run together.

        So, originally, if the president died, vacated office, etc., it was the second most popular presidential candidate that became president.