VICE.RUN is a movement to reclaim our right to a democratically elected vice president. We’re collecting ballot access pledges calling on states to create a separate ballot line for the vice presidency in 2020.

Americans agree that a politically divided America is a weaker America and that the vice president is uniquely suited to bring the country together. By a wide margin of 73% to 27% Americans prefer a VP who acts as unifier-in-chief to one who plays a traditional role in support of the president.

American democracy rests on the premise that the people select their leaders through election. Americans choose our congress members, our senators and our president. But the vice president—the person who is next in line to the most important position in the world—never faces voters directly.