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I talked about this quite a number of times so I'll keep it short: If Trump dies before January 6th it will force a Constitutional Crisis due to the fact that someone only legally becomes President-Elect once the votes are counted by Congress. We do not have any laws governing whether the line of succession applies before the EVs are counted, meaning Democrats could argue that JD Vance would not be the President-Elect if Trump dies.
Either way, neither Harris nor Biden is taking over in that scenario.