What happens if one of Kamala Harris’s running mate finalists gets elected

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As Vice President Kamala Harris is poised to announce her running mate, several considerations will go into who will join her on the Democratic ticket, with one of them being what happens if one of the finalists gets elected vice president in November.

With Harris’s term as vice president ending as the next presidential term begins, there would be no vacant offices needing to be filled if she defeats former President Donald Trump, but among the three presumed finalists to be her running mate, there would be an unexpired term each man would be abandoning. Here is what would happen if Harris picks each of them and proceeds to win the election.

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