# Who will be President on Nov.2 2020? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 19, 2017, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-president-on-nov-2-2020/786980 "2017-05-19T03:32:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-president-on-nov-2-2020/786980/1 "2017-05-19T03:32:34Z")
Simple, non scientific poll here. Who do Dopers think will be President of the US at the time of the next presidential election? ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-president-on-nov-2-2020/786980/2 "2017-05-19T03:37:16Z")
Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho. Wait, never mind, he’s already President. ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-president-on-nov-2-2020/786980/3 "2017-05-19T04:15:36Z")
If I could pick the field over Trump, I would. However, if I’m limited to that list, then Trump. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-president-on-nov-2-2020/786980/4 "2017-05-19T04:21:07Z")
If I may interject a (perhaps stupid) question … Who is Orrin Hatch in the scheme of the line of succession? I’ve seen his name mentioned in several posts lately, speculating on post-Trumpian occupancy of the Oval Office. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-president-on-nov-2-2020/786980/5 "2017-05-19T04:28:15Z")
Hatch, as President Pro Tem of the Senate, is third in line followed by the various cabinet officers. ---
**Author:** ![FlikTheBlue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fliktheblue/32/10972_2.png) [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-president-on-nov-2-2020/786980/6 "2017-05-19T11:47:26Z")
No option for Nancy Pelosi?. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![igor\_frankensteen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/839c29/32.png) [@igor\_frankensteen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/igor_frankensteen)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-president-on-nov-2-2020/786980/7 "2017-05-19T12:00:57Z")
This is about guessing, based on what’s in the news right now. Since both houses of Congress are held by the same party that the people being accused of stuff belong to, and since there has NEVER been a case where someone has been removed from office by their own party, unless Trump resigns (unlikely), he will still be nominal President throughout 2020. It’s been clear for a very long time, that the Republican Party places loyalty to party above everything else, including especially the economic health of the country, AND the lives of our military people. Even if Trump is found to have promised Putin to go easy on him in exchange for help with Hillary (extremely unlikely…Trump isn’t that clever), all that will happen is that the GOP as a group will say “tsk tsk.” ---
**Author:** ![boffking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/858c86/32.png) [@boffking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boffking)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-president-on-nov-2-2020/786980/8 "2017-05-19T13:05:52Z")
> [@igor\_frankensteen](#): > > This is about guessing, based on what’s in the news right now. > > Since both houses of Congress are held by the same party that the people being accused of stuff belong to, and since there has NEVER been a case where someone has been removed from office by their own party, unless Trump resigns (unlikely), he will still be nominal President throughout 2020. No President has ever been removed from office, period. Unless you count assassination. However, Governors have been removed from office. Rod Blagojevich was certainly removed from office by his own party. ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-president-on-nov-2-2020/786980/9 "2017-05-19T13:08:43Z")
Well since the elected president won’t take office until January 2021, per the thread title question, I’ll go with Trump or Pence. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-president-on-nov-2-2020/786980/10 "2017-05-19T13:23:40Z")
Who’s **Lrrr**? Lurrrch from the Addams Family? A typo of **Grrr**? ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-president-on-nov-2-2020/786980/11 "2017-05-19T13:31:31Z")
Trump. Just in the morning, though. ---
**Author:** ![sich\_hinaufwinden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@sich\_hinaufwinden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sich_hinaufwinden)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-president-on-nov-2-2020/786980/12 "2017-05-19T13:36:01Z")
> [@Omar\_Little](#): > > Well since the elected president won’t take office until January 2021, per the thread title question, I’ll go with Trump or Pence. per the OP: > [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > …at the time of the next presidential election? ETA: On reflection I think you may already have taken that into consideration but your post at first made me suspect you were thinking the OP was asking who would win the next election. Apologies if I misunderstood. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-president-on-nov-2-2020/786980/13 "2017-05-19T14:31:48Z")
I think Trump will be serving two terms. The animosity between the two parties isn’t going away anytime soon. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-president-on-nov-2-2020/786980/14 "2017-05-19T14:37:47Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > Who’s **Lrrr**? LRRR! of the Planet Omicron Persei 8 LRRR! after eating a hippie. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/BYhF79vIlws/hqdefault.jpg "Lrrr Ate a Hippie") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYhF79vIlws) ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-president-on-nov-2-2020/786980/15 "2017-05-19T14:42:38Z")
I too question why Ryan and Hatch are on the list. They’d only come into play if Trump left, and Pence didn’t get a new VP approved by Congress before he left office. The odds of that seem vanishingly low. > [@Spiderman](#): > > Who’s **Lrrr**? Ruler of Omicron Perseii 8! It’s a Futurama reference. I would have gone with Richard Nixon’s head in a jar, since he actually became President of Earth. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2017, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-president-on-nov-2-2020/786980/16 "2017-05-20T01:17:08Z")
[quote=“Drunky\_Smurf, post:14, topic:786980”] LRRR! of the Planet Omicron Persei 8 LRRR! after eating a hippie. [/QUOTE] Thanks for that, I couldn’t figure out how to put a link in the poll. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2017, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-president-on-nov-2-2020/786980/17 "2017-05-20T01:28:21Z")
Trump. We will do all we can to make his life a living Hell and halt his every action but he’ll stick it out and we’ll fail to nail him and get him impeached. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2017, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-president-on-nov-2-2020/786980/18 "2017-05-20T14:39:55Z")
Trump could die. Or it could become clear that he is gradually becoming demented (the bit with “priming the pump” was really scary). Or he could be impeached and convicted. Or he could resign. Given all those possibilities I went with Pence. Why wasn’t the date Jan. 19, 2021? ---
**Author:** ![Twoflower](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/twoflower/32/22_2.png) [@Twoflower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Twoflower)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2017, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-president-on-nov-2-2020/786980/19 "2017-05-20T15:22:17Z")
> [@FlikTheBlue](#): > > No option for Nancy Pelosi?. 😛 That’s my fantasy. But they wouldn’t impeach Bush/Cheney to put her in, so my hopes aren’t high. ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2017, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-president-on-nov-2-2020/786980/20 "2017-05-21T19:35:23Z")
Lrrr: “I think I’ll have Fry’s lower horn jerked.” Bender: [“It’s used to it! Woooo!”](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iKmLUA2yHFE) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-president-on-nov-2-2020/786980.md?page=2)