What happens to the election if

[Beachnutt]

trump gets sick for a few weeks ?
Can the rethugs delay the election ?
What happens if he is hospitalized passed election day ?
Could this be his scheme ?

[samnsara]

1. even dead people have been elected...

[calguy]

2. I think the election happens no matter what happens

Was bein discussed on another site I was watching earlier.
I'm sure all the news outlets will have an unending line of "in the know" guests on this week end to tell us all about it.

[dragonlady]

3. Best guess

1. It goes on.
2. No.
3. He is still president unless pronounced unable to fulfill his duties and then Pence becomes acting president.
4. Who knows?

[moose65]

4. The Constitution explicitly says that Trump's term ends on January 20

That can’t be changed or postponed except by a constitutional amendment. States have the power to delay elections, but they can’t postpone them forever. If January 20 comes and goes with no new President, then we will say hello to President Pelosi.

[PTWB]

5. He could be dead and still win the election.

It has happened before, more than once.

Vote!!

[beachbumbob]

6. CIVICS 101

election goes on, people vote for the electors assigned to the candidates. If somehow a candidate should die, the respective DNC or RNC names a replacement. Hypothetically if trump dies, and wins the election, the RNC CAN ASSIGN the presidency. How do you like that?? Would they name PUTIN??? LOL

[Alpeduez21]

9. That is precisely why the scary potentials are freaking people out.

[beachbumbob]

10. makes more democratic voters by the second

[Sherman A1]

7. I continue to be amazed at the lack of knowledge

Of how our system works.

[Alpeduez21]

8. I posted a similar question to the OP

I got a lot of lazy answers like yours. I think your apparent understanding of basic civics is what shows a lack of knowledge. It is not as simple as merely voting for a person when it comes to presidential elections. For any other office votes are cast for a specific person. In the case of presidential elections one votes for electors who choose the president. If the candidate they are supposed to choose is dead or incapacitated can they pick anyone they want? This could become a very messy constitutional issue that goes WAY beyond whatever you learned in Schoolhouse Rock.

[Sherman A1]

11. I continue to be amazed at the lack of understanding

Of junior high civics.

[whttevrr]

12. The average American reads at the 7th- to 8th-grade level.

It's obvious the literacy in civics is lower.

https://www.wyliecomm.com/2019/03/us-literacy-rate/
The average American reads at the 7th- to 8th-grade level.
— The Literacy Project [2]