The health of the US President is in a state of ambiguity, and the question is whether we will see him removed from power and replaced by his deputy?
Mehdi Poursafa: When the Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 US presidential election, she bitterly pointed out in her speech that this time she could not break the glass ceiling for a woman to run for the US presidency. But this will happen anyway.
In 2020, the field was still open to men, but the winning candidate, Joe Biden, took Kamala Harris to the White House with him as vice president. Of course, the appointment of a woman to this position is not far from the mind, as in 2008 and in the fierce rivalry between the Democratic “Barack Obama” and the Republican “McCain”, he nominated the Republican candidate “Sarah Palin” as his deputy, but in the end the game The election was won by the Democrats.
Perhaps one of the things that makes some people think about the presence of a woman in the US presidency is Biden’s advanced age to run for the presidency. Biden is nearly eighty years old and is the oldest president in the history of the United States. Maybe this time, the United States will have a female president in some other way than elections.
What are the powers of the Vice President in the United States?
Basically, in the United States, the vice president was not supposed to be able to be recognized as the president in the event of the president’s death or incapacity, but he was acting president until early elections. In the first hundred years of the US government, the vice president was given the position of vice president to the losing candidate, and most of this time was spent in the Senate as its president. However, when an American president first died in 1841 before the end of his presidency, John Tyler claimed to be not a real acting president but a real president. The conflict continued until Congress approved him as president. Due to the customary structure of laws in the United States, this practice continued virtually without explicit approval of the Constitution, until the 25th Amendment to the Constitution formally replaced the Vice President.
Of course, even after this change, the vice president was a marginalized person who often spends his time in his office in Congress. Although there were changes in the position of Vice President in the first half of the twentieth century, it was Harry Truman who first gave the Vice President a special position.
It was during his tenure that the Vice President became an official member of the US National Security Council. Under Eisenhower, the vice president became head of cabinet meetings, and for the first time under President Carter, the vice president’s office was moved to the White House.
Perhaps the pinnacle of a vice president in the United States dates back to Bush Sr.’s presidency, when Dick Cheney even made independent decisions from Bush.
Unlike under Obama and Donald Trump administrations, the post of vice president was demoted. Under Trump, effectively at the end of his presidency, there was a deep rift between him and Mike Pence over how to manage the 2020 election, which ultimately complicated the situation and even rioted in Congress.
