In theory, anyway
Imagine it’s the morning of November 4th, 2020. After staying up late because the vote counting was going so slowly and too many states were still not called, you finally packed it in and went to bed. Then, wiping the sleep from your bleary eyes the next morning, you turn on the news to learn that President Trump has been defeated. But it’s not the Democratic nominee who will replace him. It’s Howard Schultz.
That’s the premise of an interesting and speculative piece from our friend Hugh Hewitt in the Washington Post this week. Sound a bit too much like alternate reality fiction? Well… you’re probably right. But Hugh does make a solid point about some of the oddly crafted portions of the Constitution and its amendments.
So, how could Howard Schultz become president?
Each week in The Post Pundit 2020 Power Rankings (in which I and nine other writers participate), I always list Schultz among the top 10 people likeliest to unseat President Trump. I do that because I know the 12th Amendment is out there, lurking. It is Schultz’s secret weapon. And it isn’t crazy, just improbable.
I asked Hank Adler, a retired Deloitte partner and now an accounting professor at Chapman University, to provide an explainer…
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