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CK_John

(10,005 posts)
Fri Jun 3, 2016, 10:07 AM Jun 2016

Trump's dilemma is the VP can't be fired. The Cabinet serves at the

pleasure of the POTUS but the VP has a priority job to check on the health of POTUS and go hang out in the Senate.

So will he quit or make the convention pick his VP?????

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Trump's dilemma is the VP can't be fired. The Cabinet serves at the (Original Post) CK_John Jun 2016 OP
FDR went through em Skink Jun 2016 #1
Don't understand. CK_John Jun 2016 #2
FDR had three VPs KamaAina Jun 2016 #6
He could either ask the VP to resign and then madinmaryland Jun 2016 #3
If elected and sworn in the VP would have to be impeached to get him out of office. CK_John Jun 2016 #4
The VP could resign. Remember that Spiro Agnew madinmaryland Jun 2016 #5
 

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
6. FDR had three VPs
Fri Jun 3, 2016, 02:09 PM
Jun 2016

John Nance Garner, Henry Wallace, and of course, Harry S Truman. One wonders what postwar America would have been like if FDR and the Dem convention had not dumped the progressive Wallace in favor of Truman.

madinmaryland

(64,931 posts)
3. He could either ask the VP to resign and then
Fri Jun 3, 2016, 12:32 PM
Jun 2016

Select someone else, if he wanted to, or he could just lock the VP out.

madinmaryland

(64,931 posts)
5. The VP could resign. Remember that Spiro Agnew
Fri Jun 3, 2016, 01:51 PM
Jun 2016

did exactly that in 1973. Nixon then appointed Gerald Ford who was confirmed by Congress. For several months there was no VP.

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