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Originally posted by man*****
A president can under a national crisis and lack of acceptable alternatives. It's actually very possible. One just can't be in a 3rd term because they want to. The Treason charges alone would conclude that the election was won unfairly due to Russian swaying of the election due to Russia mingling with Republicans. That alone by default makes the Trump/Pence win illegal. So no Pence.
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This is something that hasn't happened before, so there's no precedent. I would think that if Trump were to be impeached due to the results of the election, Pence would also have to be impeached. Then it would go to Paul Ryan, who would likely remain President. Otherwise, we'd basically have to redo the entire election since he was elected by elected representatives.
And no President aside from FDR has served more than two terms, even if they served the remainder of the previous President's term. All Presidents who took over midterm have only ever been elected once. Only Theodore Roosevelt actually ran for a third (second full) term. All others either lost the nomination or declined to run again.