Can Trump Postpone the Election?

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2. "If no president/VP has been elected...normal rules of succession kick in."

This is the answer to all those "what if he refuses to go questions." Assuming we keep the house, Nancy Pelosi would succeed.

The senate president pro tempore thing is the kicker. It just goes to the LONGEST-SERVING member of the majority party. (!)

For Republicans, that'd be massively corrupt President Chuck Grassley, now 86.

If Democrats got a majority in the senate, it'd be President Patrick Leahy, now 80. Next after him, if for instance he decided to resign rather than take on the rigors of the job, would come President Dianne Feinstein, now 86.

They didn't have antibiotics in the 1780s, and epidemic diseases actually rather often ravaged families and communities, making one think this one could have been given more thought. Of course, they also didn't have stents and beta blockers, and longest-serving would have been assumed to equate to experience more than to extremely long in tooth. Our earliest congresses averaged quite young -- their fathers sent them and remained at home to run things there.

One thing we can be sure of, all this is being/has been extensively considered by the leaderships of both parties.