The line of succession follows the order of vice president, speaker of the House of Representatives, president pro tempore of the Senate, and then the eligible heads of federal executive departments who form the president's Cabinet. The Presidential Succession Act refers specifically to officers beyond the vice president acting as president rather than becoming president when filling a vacancy. The Cabinet currently has 15 members, of which the Secretary of State is first in line; the other Cabinet secretaries follow in the order of when their departments (or the department of which their department is the successor) were created. Those heads of department who are constitutionally ineligible to be elected to the presidency are disqualified from assuming the powers and duties of the president through succession, and skipped to the next in line. Since 1789, the vice president has succeeded to the presidency intra-term on nine occasions, eight times due to the incumbent's death, and once due to resignation. No one lower in the line of succession has been called upon to act as president.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_line_of_successionWhy do you think the Republicans are trying to smear Nancy Pelosi about every little thing? They want to de-legitimize her before their "chosen one" and his subjugant Pence get thrown out of office. Then Moscow Mitch could be president - the only way he'd ever get that office.
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