Could a Trump Win Put His Running Mate in Office?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : That brings us to Wednesday, when Trump filed a petition to the U.S. Supreme Court in the Colorado case.
52% : "So, the argument goes, having sworn to support the Constitution, Trump engaged in insurrection or rebellion and gave aid and comfort to others who engaged in that conduct by, among other things, pressuring state officials and Vice-President Mike Pence to overturn the results of the 2020 election, summoning his supporters to the Capitol to prevent Congress's ratification of the election, and inciting violence there on January 6, 2021.
50% : On Wednesday, Trump asked the Supreme Court of the United States to put the kibosh on these efforts.
50% : The ambition to legally bar Trump from the Presidency rather than defeat him by ballot would not have become so plausible to so many but for a scholarly paper by the conservative constitutional-law professors William Baude and Michael Stokes Paulsen, which became an instant sensation in August.
41% : Trump is seeking review of the decision in state court.
39% : In December, the Colorado Supreme Court and Maine's secretary of state each declared that the Constitution disqualifies Trump from the ballot.
36% : On December 19th, in a lawsuit brought by several Republican and unaffiliated voters in Colorado, the state's supreme court prohibited election officials from listing Trump on the state's Republican primary ballot.
35% : The paper, titled "The Sweep and Force of Section Three," gives conservative cover to liberal fantasy, arguing that the Constitution disqualifies Trump from becoming President again because of his "participation in the attempted overthrow of the 2020 presidential election."
35% : So, even assuming that Trump is disqualified from being President, he is not disqualified from running for President in expectation of Congress later allowing him to take office.
33% : The two scholars wrote that Trump "knowingly attempted to execute what, had it succeeded, would have amounted to a political coup d'etat against the Constitution and its system of elections."
27% : Years after Donald Trump was voted out of office, his destructiveness to our electoral system has become so infectious that those who loathe him are doing the work for him.
17% : The next day, in response to several Maine voters' challenges to Trump's nomination petition, Maine's secretary of state ruled that Trump "is not qualified to hold the office of the President" under the disqualification clause.

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