Weird question here but what would happen if Biden won in November and like, a year into the presidency just died of old age? I don't live in a country with a president so I'm just confused on what exactly happens here. Do you guys just, hold a new election? (After the whole funeral and whatever legal things would need to happen first)
The presidency would just fall on the next in the line of succession immediately, in this scenario Vice President Kamala Harris. She would be president until the end of what would have been Joe Biden’s term.
If somehow we lost both the president AND the VP at the same time, the Speaker of the House of Representatives would become president. If we lost all three in some kind of unholy event, the members of that president’s Cabinet are up next, starting with the Secretary of State (our equivalent of a Minister of Foreign Affairs).
And, god forbid (?), if the entire Executive Branch were somehow eliminated all at once, we have something called the Designated Survivor. This is a member of the president’s Cabinet (ministry? I think) that is selected at random to be placed in a secure location during events where the entire government comes together in one place, such as the annual State of the Union address or during inauguration. If the government gets an unhappy surprise during such an event, the DS becomes president and has the extremely unhappy task of reforming the executive branch, with the help of Congress. Assuming Congress survived, themselves.
While it has never happened irl, the above paragraph is actually a scenario that plays out in the show Designated Survivor. If you must subject yourself to an imperial drama, I’d start there. We do love our damned imperial dramas….