{"id":105069,"date":"2020-11-05T01:09:34","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T22:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/what-happens-if-a-president-is-not-elected-by-inauguration-day\/"},"modified":"2020-11-05T01:09:34","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T22:09:34","slug":"what-happens-if-a-president-is-not-elected-by-inauguration-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/what-happens-if-a-president-is-not-elected-by-inauguration-day\/","title":{"rendered":"#What happens if a president is not elected by Inauguration Day?"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#What happ<\/a>ens if a president is not elected by Inauguration Day?<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n Inauguration Day is more than two months away \u2014 but what would happen if a president still<\/em> hasn\u2019t been elected by then?<\/p>\n

In the most unlikely of scenarios, the House speaker \u2014 currently Rep. Nancy Pelosi \u2014 would become president.<\/p>\n

But there\u2019s a lot that would need to happen before America would ever get there.<\/p>\n

The states\u2019 electoral votes are cast on Dec. 14 \u2014 and the candidate who gets at least 270 of the 538 wins.<\/p>\n

However, if there is no clear winner in the Electoral College, the 12th Amendment dictates that the House of Representatives would elect the president and the Senate would pick the vice president.<\/p>\n

The Congress that enters in January would be responsible for the so-called \u201ccontingent election.\u201d<\/p>\n

In this process, the House would have to choose between the top three candidates with the most electoral votes \u2014 or in this case, just President Trump and Joe Biden.<\/p>\n

Each state delegation would get one vote, with 26 needed to declare a winner.<\/p>\n

Only one previous president has been named under the 12th amendment \u2014 John Quincy Adams in 1825.<\/p>\n

For the VP slot, the Senate would need to pick between the top two vice-presidential candidates with the most electoral votes \u2014 Mike Pence and Kamala Harris.<\/p>\n

Each senator gets a vote, with 51 votes required to win.<\/p>\n

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If the House fails to elect a president by the time Jan. 20 (Inauguration Day), rolls around, then the vice president-elect chosen by the Senate serves as acting president until the deadlock is resolved in the House, according to the national archives<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If that still fails, then the 20th Amendment takes over \u2014 making the vice president-elect acting president until a president has qualified.<\/p>\n

In the unlikely event that neither the president-elect nor the vice president-elect are chosen by Jan. 20, then the Presidential Succession Act applies.<\/p>\n

This would make the speaker of the House, Pelosi, president until both chambers of Congress decide on someone.<\/p>\n

With Post wires<\/em>\n <\/div>\n

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