It really is just a movie.

My Fellow Americans

“Douglas and Kramer muse that the idiotic Matthews will now be elevated from Vice President to President and realize that the only way it could have happened was under these circumstances. The pair confront Matthews, who admits that he, not Haney, had engineered the entire plot so that he could become President, knowing Haney would take the fall. Matthews explains that his stupidity was just an act,”

Yes, it’s a Wikipedia link…get over it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Fellow_Americans