Assassination on Election night... does that even make sense?

I believe there may be some truth to what you're saying. I think they have to be more officially the President-elect and VP-elect before Shaw would automatically take over like that. And that would occur after the Electoral College votes in December, so I think you're right.

Mind you, the Secret Service doesn't wait that long. They would be providing them with protection during the campaign anyway, and would give A+ protection once the election results are known. Of course, that wouldn't mean anything here, because (1) they couldn't protect him on stage like this, and (2) they especially couldn't protect him when they're in on shooting the president-elect in the first place.





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The straight answer is that nobody knows what the constitution and us law says would happen in such a situation. Remember, the President elect is not technically the President elect until the Electoral college votes in early December. If the President Elect dies after being voted for by the electoral college then the vice president elect will be sworn in on Jan 20.

But, there are no rules anywhere about what happens if the P-E dies before the Electoral college votes.

I remember reading a novel about just such a situation about a decade ago. (I actually read it during the turmoil over the 2000 election which made it really chilling). In the novel, things are made more difficult because the presidential candidate was pretty progressive and the VP a compromise candidate picked to win the conservative branch of the party. So, the electors picked for the president did not necessarily want the VP to be president.

I thought that George Will wrote it but I checked and cannot find it under his name.


Nobody's looking for a puppeteer in today's wintry economic climate.

Good point. But we're dealing with a mother who sacrificed her own son's sanity for her own frustrated political ends. That mother was a sociopath who was capable of doing anything if cornered.


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OP, my question exactly. Thanks!

I am assuming they couldn't wait because of the increase risk of being exposed by shaw and marco.

My feeling was that if the Presidential candidate was out of the way, then everyone would want Shaw to run, naturally, for President. And it would proceed with no complications. I mean an assignation AFTER the election could look more damaging right?

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