So what? The VP outranks the Speaker too.The VP outranks the clerk. Nothing happens, if procedures aren’t followed.
The procedure is for the Clerk of the House to handle the administrative roles of the Speaker if there’s no Speaker.
You idiots are hanging on to the impossible dream that a man so demented he can’t read from a teleprompter or remember not to wander off will remain over a competent, successful former president.
P.S. You should come to our inauguration party. We are having lots of great kosher food!