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Originally Posted by Damien
I think only people who are eligible for President can run for Vice President.
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The VP must be eligible to become President - it is right at the very top of the original constitution, it’s not even an amendment. Mischief-makers point out that it doesn’t explicitly prohibit a two-term president from occupying the office and would doubtless try to make originalist claims about what the original drafters intended. Personally I think the counter argument would be that you have to read the whole document together and article 2 plus the 22nd amendment, read together must surely bar a 2-term president from being VP because, by virtue of the 22nd amendment, he is not eligible to become president.
But I’m not a constitutional lawyer, so whadda I know.