Originally Posted by
pontificator
Could be an interesting few days coming up. I remember some time back in the past a comment about "the last elected president", to be present during a particularly turbulent period of history. Given we are in that period, if Biden survives the inauguration, then he would probably be the last elected president. Otherwise we end up in the weird situation where trump was the last elected president, but Kamala Harris becomes a non-elected president.
Not quite sure how that would work though, would the states have to retain Trump in a caretaker capacity until matters were sorted out? Or can Kamala be sworn in on inauguration day if Biden is taken out before then or dies from excitement on the date?
(Does the equivalent of the "designated survivor" interim period happen under those circumstances?)