Nah, they want someone they can control. If they went down this road and cheated their way into the WH. She would use the death of her husband to get her way.

Heeks Up is a perfect socialist puppet.

Also, stinks of a monarchy government were leadership is passed around by family ties. Something America rejected hard as fuck in 2016. Though a socialist America will be like this. Where the leadership is in office until the die then passed around the elite.