Donald Trump emerged victorious within the 2024 presidential election battle in opposition to US Vice President and Democratic rival Kamala Harris. He will takeover the Oval Office for subsequent 4 years because the forty seventh president of America. After Grover Cleveland, he has develop into the second president within the US historical past to carry workplace for non-consecutive phrases.
January will mark the beginning of the 78-year-old president-elect’s second time period, however is a 3rd time period conceivable? The reply is he can’t run for president once more in 2028. Here’s why
What does US Constitution’s twenty second Amendment say
The US Constitution’s twenty second Amendment forbids a president from holding workplace for greater than two phrases or eight years. The twenty second Amendment was handed and ratified by Congress on March 21, 1947, and on February 27, 1951, respectively.
“No individual shall be elected to the workplace of the President greater than twice, and no one who has held the workplace of President, or acted as President, for greater than two years of a time period to which another individual was elected President shall be elected to the workplace of President greater than as soon as.”
Trump has already accomplished his allotted time after being elected in 2016 and served until 2020. He will now serve a second time period from 2024 to 2028.
Upon the conclusion of his second time period, which can happen over the following 4 years, Trump won’t be eligible to retake the workplace as his victory makes him the primary president to carry workplace for 2 nonconsecutive phrases in virtually a century.
Earlier in an interview, Trump acknowledged that he won’t run for election once more in 2028 if he loses. “No I don’t. I feel that might be — that might be it. I don’t see that in any respect. Hopefully, we might be profitable.”
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How previous will Trump be when his second time period as president involves a conclusion?
Trump might be 82 years previous by the tip of his second time period, which is one yr older than present President Joe Biden.
Biden introduced his determination to withdraw from the race in July after his dismal debate efficiency and months of being attacked by Trump and different Republicans for being too previous and unfit for the place.
President-elect Trump will take workplace in Washington, D.C., on January 20 following the certification of the election on January 6.