• Billiam@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      I’m not a Constitutional studies guy, so I don’t really know.

      As far as I do know, the only requirement to be Speaker of the House is for a majority of the House to vote for you, and the only way the Speaker could become President is if something happens to the President and the VP simultaneously. I suspect what would happen in that case is it would skip over the Speaker and go to the next in the line of succession who is eligible.