They can’t both reside in the same state.
“They can’t both reside in the same state.”
I’m pretty sure this is more of a tradition or strategy. I’m pretty sure it’s not in the Constitution, it may be a party policy.
The idea is to pick the VP from a state that has influence in areas or with sectors of the population where the Presidential campaign is not very strong.
I think they technically can reside in the same state, but there is a disadvantage should the EC vote come out to a 269-269 tie and the House of Representatives decides the election.
RE: POTUS/VP candidates must not reside in one state...
Another political myth just as calling the U.S. a democracy and not a republic.
“They can’t both reside in the same state.”
Pretty sure that’s not true. Look it up.
In the original rules, electors cast TWO votes for president. Whoever got the most votes became president, and whoever came in second became VP.
There was a clause in the Constitution that said electors could not cast both their votes for PRESIDENT for people from the same state.
This system was changed early on. Electors now cast one vote for president and one vote for VP. There is no restriction saying the votes for president and VP must go to people from different states.
But, they myth still carries on. Dick Cheney changed his residence from Texas to Wyoming to avoid controversy when he ran with Bush.
And I’m sure the media would stoke the flames and say it was unconstitutional, despite knowing full well it wasn’t, just to undermine Trump & DeSantis.
“The inhabitant clause of the Twelfth Amendment also suggests strongly that the president and vice president should not be from the same state. Although the provision does not directly disqualify a vice president who is from the same state as the president, the provision disqualifies the electors from that state from voting for both offices.”
https://www.annenbergclassroom.org/12th-amendment/
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