# 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:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2017, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-president-on-nov-2-2020/786980/21 "2017-05-21T19:39:13Z")
> [@Hari\_Seldon](#): > > Why wasn’t the date Jan. 19, 2021? Because the question is not who we think will win the 2020 election. The question is whether or not Trump will still be in office when that happens and, if not, who will replace him. ---
**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 23, 2017, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-president-on-nov-2-2020/786980/22 "2017-05-23T03:16:13Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > Because the question is not who we think will win the 2020 election. The question is whether or not Trump will still be in office when that happens and, if not, who will replace him. That is correct. ---
**Author:** ![Corry\_El](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecae2f/32.png) [@Corry\_El](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corry_El)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2017, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-president-on-nov-2-2020/786980/23 "2017-05-23T22:09:30Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > Because the question is not who we think will win the 2020 election. The question is whether or not Trump will still be in office when that happens and, if not, who will replace him. Whoever wins the 2020 election will be president Jan 20, 2021. The office will be held Jan 19, '21 by either Trump or whoever else might finish out his term according to the Constitution (excluding scenario’s like ‘the constitutional govt itself doesn’t last that long’). I also wondered why a date in Nov '20, which has no particular significance for whether Trump finishes out his term, which I assumed was the question. The result is about as I expected: what people here typically want to happen has shifted the result from IMO (whether I like it or not) upwards of 80% chance it’s still Trump to something like half that. ---
**Author:** ![USCDiver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uscdiver/32/354_2.png) [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2017, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-president-on-nov-2-2020/786980/24 "2017-05-23T22:16:30Z")
> [@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. > > 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.” What makes you so certain the GOP will still hold both houses of Congress in 2020? ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2017, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-president-on-nov-2-2020/786980/25 "2017-05-23T22:17:19Z")
I voted for Pence only because even if Trump isn’t removed from office, he probably will probably not live to see 2020. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2017, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-president-on-nov-2-2020/786980/26 "2017-05-23T22:26:58Z")
Oh, crap. I completely mis-read the question. Change my answer to Trump. (But in the case my “other” answer proves to be right, disregard. 🙂 ) ---
**Author:** ![Mikeisskeptical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@Mikeisskeptical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mikeisskeptical)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2017, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-president-on-nov-2-2020/786980/27 "2017-05-24T01:25:47Z")
My guess is, whichever warlord has best access to uncontaminated food/water. ---
**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2017, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-president-on-nov-2-2020/786980/28 "2017-05-24T01:35:47Z")
I voted for Mike Pence … The Donald made a strategic error have him as VP … I think the main reason Bill Clinton or Barack Obama didn’t get removed from office was the alternative was worse … at least in Republican’s eyes … both George Bushes as well … and again in Republican’s eyes … William McKinley was impeachment-proof … [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-be-president-on-nov-2-2020/786980.md?page=1)