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human
cmv: If a politician is removed from office, we should hold an election to choose a new public official, not promote whoever was under them.

I’ll use the POTUS (speaking generically, not specifically talking about Biden) as an example to explain my point, but this applies to any area of office. If the president was impeached, I don’t think we should have the VP automatically take their place. Now I’m not saying that the actions of the president mean that those who are under them are automatically at fault, but if we can’t trust the president, how can we be sure that we can trust the people that they chose to be under them? 

Now you may argue that the people under the President shouldn’t have to lose their jobs because of someone else’s bad choices. To that I’d say that they can campaign in the election. Should the public decide that they would be a good fit for office and vote them in, they can be sworn in as the new POTUS. But I think they should earn that right, not just have it handed to them.


Edit: There have been a lot of good points brought up that I didn’t think about. Thanks for all the responses!
gpt
But elections take time. Who is president while we wait for a new election to take place?

If your answer is the vice president, then there really isn't much difference between this and the current system. If there are truly extraordinary circumstances, Congress can vote to remove the vice president as well. But it really seems like you're trying to design for an extreme edge case, and ultimately this just doesn't matter.