President-elect Donald Trump’s defeated Vice President Kamala Harris within the 2024 presidential election, and though he ran for president thrice, that is the final time period he can serve.
The Structure guidelines that even when the phrases aren’t consecutive, an individual can solely maintain the workplace of the president twice.
Here is all the things to find out about presidential time period limits.
What number of phrases can somebody function president?
An individual can serve two four-year phrases as president, as outlined within the Structure’s twenty second Modification. The phrases would not have to be consecutive.
A vice chairman who serves as president can run for 2 phrases after that service in the event that they held the workplace of president for lower than two years. So if a vice chairman took the workplace of president one yr right into a time period, they may solely run for workplace another time. In the event that they took energy within the again half of the time period, they could possibly be elected to the presidency twice. In latest historical past, President Lyndon Johnson took over in 1963 when President John F. Kennedy was killed, making him eligible to run in 1964 and 1968. He finally opted to not run in 1968, though he was within the race till after the New Hampshire major.
The 2 phrases do not have to be consecutive: Till Trump’s victory this week, Grover Cleveland was the one president to serve non-consecutive presidential phrases.
However which means that Donald Trump, who was elected to workplace in 2016 and in 2024, can’t be elected president once more in 2028.
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Has anybody been president for greater than two phrases?
Just one particular person has served greater than two phrases as president: Franklin D. Roosevelt. He was the longest-sitting president in United States historical past, serving from 1933 to 1945.
That third time period led to controversy, based on the Nationwide Structure Middle. The nation’s first president, George Washington, had established a precedent of solely two phrases in workplace per president, and a few noticed Roosevelt’s break from custom as a risk to democracy.
In 1947, Congress accredited the twenty second modification. The modification was ratified in February 1951.
What number of instances can somebody run for president?
There is no restrict to what number of instances somebody can run for president.
There have been various perennial candidates for president all through American historical past. Harold Stassen, a former governor of Minnesota, ran for president as a Republican candidate 9 instances between 1944 and 1992. Lyndon LaRouche ran for president in eight consecutive elections between 1976 and 2004 — as soon as because the candidate for the U.S. Labor Celebration, which he had based, and 7 instances as a candidate for the Democratic celebration.
What Trump has stated about time period limits
Trump has made a lot of feedback about time period limits and his time in workplace, though it is unclear if he was severe. In July, he repeatedly informed attendees at a conservative Christian occasion that they would not “must vote anymore” if he was elected to workplace in 2024. Some noticed the feedback as a risk to not go away workplace after a second time period.
“Christians, get out in vote. Simply this time,” he stated throughout a speech on the Believers’ Summit, an occasion hosted by the conservative advocacy group Turning Level Motion. “You will not must do it anymore. 4 extra years. You understand what? It will be mounted. It will be fantastic. You will not must vote anymore, my stunning Christians.”
Trump continued: “I really like you Christians and I am a Christian. I really like you, you bought to get out and vote. In 4 years, you do not have to vote once more. We’ll have it mounted so good, you are not going to must vote.”
Trump has talked about the concept of a 3rd time period greater than as soon as. In August 2020, he stated he would win that election after which “go one other 4 years” as a result of “they spied on my marketing campaign,” based on Forbes. A month later, he informed crowds he would “negotiate” extra time in workplace, saying that he was “most likely entitled to a different 4 after (2020)” primarily based on “the way in which we had been handled.”
In April 2024, Trump informed Time journal that he intends “to serve 4 years and do a fantastic job” and “would not be in favor” of an prolonged time period, however throughout a 2024 speech for the Nationwide Rifle Affiliation, Trump requested supporters if he can be thought-about “three-term or two-term.”
Since dropping the 2020 election, Trump repeatedly falsely claimed that he had gained.
