Education Secretary Miguel Cardona revealed because the designated survivor

Education Secretary Miguel Cardona is serving as this yr’s designated survivor for the State of the Union deal with. 

The 48-year-old educator and favourite journey companion of Dr. Jill Biden was lacking from the U.S. Capitol Building the place President Joe Biden will deal with a joint session of Congress in entrance of droves of dignitaries. 

A White House official confirmed to the Associated Press that he was serving within the designated surivor position.  

Cardona is fifteenth in line for the presidency.  

Every yr the designated survivor is taken to an undisclosed location in case the U.S. Capitol have been attacked in the course of the State of the Union, which might wipe out many of the federal authorities. 

A well-liked tv present, starring Kiefer Sutherland, was based mostly solely on this idea. 

Unlike different members of the Cabinet, Cardona wasn’t elected to workplace earlier than his tenure working within the Biden administration however had been appointed to function Connecticut’s commissioner of training.  

Alberto Gonzales, who was lawyer common underneath President George W. Bush, was the ‘designated survivor’ in 2007.

Gonzales stated it was ‘sort of cool’ but in addition a ‘sobering second’.

He was approached by Bush’s chief of employees per week beforehand.

He was then given two choices of the place to be on the night time.

One of them was on a airplane and he selected that as a result of ‘it will be sort of cool to fly round because the president gave the State of the Union.’

When he bought to Andrews Air Force Base to board the airplane he was greeted by officers from each main authorities division.

They had ‘massive binders of protocols and procedures to advise me within the occasion that I turned president.’

Then he ‘settled in’ on the airplane and watched the speech.