To keep things from being distasteful, let’s not kill him in 9/11.
Let’s say he dies in late 2003 of either an assasination or a sickness, it doesn’t really matter for the scenario. Richard Cheney finishes the rest of his term, but declines to run for re-election (they barely convinced him to run for Vice-President).
My question to y’all is: who will win the Republican nomination? Could Colin Powell? Who wins the Democratic nomination? And who wins the election overall.