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Could an ineligible candidate gain presidency due to assasination?

I DO NOT SUPPORT OR CONDONE THE ASSASINATION OF ANY POLITICAL FIGURE. This is a hypothetical question.

We all know that if the president is killed that the VP takes over. If he goes down, the Speaker takes over. There is a chain of command down quite a way, in case of a huge disaster. What happens though, if someone in the chain is ineligible for presidency?

The requirements for being a senator aren't the same ones for being president, so it could happen. It's extremely unlikely but there is a possibliity. Lets use an example (no I'm not predicting the future, I'm assuming everyone knows these politicians.

In 2016 Sarah Palin becomes the 1st female president. This upsets some nutjob who thinks she belongs in a kitchen. He decides to shoot her. What he doesn't know is that the plane the Romney was riding in had engine trouble and he died in a crash. Arnold (I'm not going to attempt to spell that last name) is the Speaker of the house. He is not a natural born citizen. Would he be able to take control, or would we skip him and use the next person in the chain of command?

Update:

This isn't a forum to bash Obama. If you're holding onto the pathetic conspiracy that he's not eligible, I feel sorry for you. This was a hypothetical so I could understand the system better, not a chance for you to show your ignorance.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    The ineligible person is skipped over. When Henry Kissinger was Secretary of State, he wasn't in the line of succession since he was a naturalized citizen. (Normally he would have been 4th in line as Secretary of State.)

    Source(s): Old enough to remember that.
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    It would certainly skip Arnold unless some provisions would already be made to allow such a thing. Not going to happen though.

    The current President is eligible, otherwise he'd have been booted out of the race to begin with and McCain would have pointed it out repeatedly. But no, a person not born in American soil cannot be President.

  • Doug B
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    If a person in the chain is ineligible to hold the office, then that person is skipped.

  • idrovo
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    I truthfully have theory approximately it, and that i think of certainly that it incredibly is going to. in fact, in a spirit of fairness, people who knew and yet defended their win ought top to be charged and prosecuted for election fraud and abuse of the form and of the american human beings. yet, in spite of the exception of such legal subjects, if i found that my occasion have been to blame of so heinous an offense, they might incredibly discover me vote casting and helping someplace else till now the ink replaced into dry on the judgments. Even by utilising lack of information, to have supported so egregious and unsavory an act against the human beings of this usa, might shame me to the top of my days. there is not any doubt that i may well be loudest in calling for their everlasting excision from the political technique. in no way ought to so shameful a habit be appropriate to any citizen of this usa who loves their Rights or their shape.

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  • 1 decade ago

    we would skip the ineligible one and go to the next. If there was not a next one available, it would go to the House of Representatives and they would vote for one from their members.

  • 1 decade ago

    No, the chain of command skips over them.

  • 1 decade ago

    Obama is a control freak doing his best to turn our "free" country into a communist country. If he were to die, natural or otherwise, our vise President is an idiot with about as much common sense as a jack-*** in heat. There is Absolutely NO ONE in office that I trust or approve of, because MOST of them are Democrats! So the United States is screwed either way.

    Source(s): Time awaits "no one"
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    An ineligible candidate ALREADY gained the presidency....by election.

    His name is Kenyan born Barack Hussein Obama.

  • 1 decade ago

    Yes, they already have. His name is OBAMA.

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