Fifteen Times Has A Vice President Become President - Kamala Harris Discussion

[–] liscarkat (18367) 25 days ago

But only four serving vice presidents have been elected president. George H. W. Bush is the only modern occurrence of a serving V.P. winning a presidential election. The last one before him was Martin Van Buren in 1836.

It's a pretty uncommon occurrence.

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[–] DarthAckbar (2039) 25 days ago

Wrong.

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[–] DonenWoods13 (308) 25 days ago

Right you are! 1836 was the last time a sitting Vice President was elected. 188 years ago until George H.W. Bush won following 8 years of a successful economy under President Reagan. The wall came down also which was a significant and positive event.

For the learning disabled, I will post this NPR piece once again. NPR is left leaning but respected by most.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/kamala-harris-election-would-defy-history-only-1-sitting-vice-president-has-been-elected-president-in-188-years

"Since 1836, only one sitting vice president, George H.W. Bush in 1988, has been elected to the White House. Among those who tried and failed were Richard Nixon in 1960, Hubert Humphrey in 1968 and Al Gore in 2000. All three lost in narrow elections shaped by issues ranging from war and scandal to crime and the subtleties of televised debates. But two other factors proved crucial for each vice president: whether the incumbent president was well-liked and whether the president and vice president enjoyed a productive relationship."

They are not referring to any deaths by illness or assassination of the sitting president, or delayed runs for office after having been VP.

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[–] DarthAckbar (2039) 24 days ago

Not relevant to my OP, moron.

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[–] Information-Police (4889) 24 days ago

It's pretty uncommon for a convicted felon to be elected president.

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[–] TheCatman (277) 25 days ago

It's odd that Biden is STILL president and his VP is running.

My guess is that if Biden's president was a fat boring old man he would have little chance of running.

I tend to be more liberal than not but think it is strange.

Biden appears to have been sick for many years, including the last election. So, it looks like Harris was picked because she's a "black" women in order to gamble on that getting her through.

It's also odd that before she started to run many people in the media were saying that Biden was "sharp" and at the top of his game.

I have sympathy for him because he didn't choose to be ill but Harris seems like a manipulation to get her into office. This was speculated about from the beginning.

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[–] BKB (9877) 24 days ago

Yeah, but the difference between the other 14 VP's who accomplished this and Kamala Harris is they were smarter than she is and weren't afraid of interviews or Press Conferences, you know?? Part of the Job of being Leader of the Free World?? And Trump simply does it more natural and is better at it and he has the one thing over Harris she can never take away: He's already been President once and very successful at it until the Democrats couldn't take it any longer and thus, Covid was born as our punishment for not voting in Hillary Clinton in 2016