Trump/Pence out after '18, Prez Pelosi resigns, Hillary is incumbent in '20...

[Blue3]

Let's say Trump and Pence are both caught up in the web of lies, and are impeached and removed soon after the 2018 elections by the Democratic congressional majority.

Nancy Pelosi is sworn-in as President, pledging not to run in 2020, and nominates the winner of the popular vote in the last election as her VP: Hillary Clinton.

Pelosi accomplishes a few things she always wanted to, helps get some legislation she especially wanted through, helps clean things up after Trump, and then she resigns in mid-late 2019. Single-payer healthcare and free college are passed, so are $15 minimum wage and paid leave, and a few other big things. Hillary Clinton is sworn-in as the 47th President, with about 18 months before the 2020 election and she decided to run for (re) election.

How goes 2020 with incumbent Hillary versus whoever the Republicans put up?

[RaphaelDLG]

I mean, there is a lot that is implausible about this scenario, but Pence being impeached before he picks a replacement VP is pretty unlikely. 

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

Oh yeah, when voters have had enough of liars, it's obviously time to run the candidate who has a 67% not honest and trustworthy rating.

[Rookie Yinzer]

Hillary loses BIGLY. She does not need to be President. The Dems would suffer so much during mid-terms. Her personal ambitions are not worth it.

[Blue3]

I mean, there is a lot that is implausible about this scenario, but Pence being impeached before he picks a replacement VP is pretty unlikely. 

Oh I know it's implausible. Just wondering how an incumbent Hillary would fare in 2020.

(and I imagine that Pence would be removed before Trump, and they wouldn't confirm a VP replacement if named).

[houseonaboat]

Man, I really have to start spending less time on this site.

[Shameless Lefty Hack]

Pence has been staying out of the mix and being a good (silent) VP for precisely this reason, so this literally will not happen.

Or at least the real-world version of this, which is much more about avoiding the viper's nest of drama and backbiting that the WH appears to be; not the last episode of Scandal or whatever else you might have been smoking. 

[#gravelgang #lessiglad]

This is almost as silly as asking how Ben Carson would fare in 2020 in the event of some sort of Designated Survivor situation.

[pbrower2a]

Mitt Romney becomes President, because he will be the best that Democrats can hope for before 2018. If he cleans' out the vipers' lair that the White House has become, then he might be in a stronger position than Ford in 1976.

Cleaning up the Trump mess is more important than any partisan gain from the disaste rous Presidency of Donald J. Trump.