• Zombie-Mantis@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    It would be a disaster, but if a candidate were to die between the nomination and the election, I think the running-mate would stand-in for the headliner.

    Something like that happened back in 1872, when Horace Greeley died one month before the Electoral College met.