Just two months after having assumed the United States Presidency, Donald Trump He assured that he would be willing to present himself again at elections to meet a third mandatealthough the law of your prohibit country that may happen More than two periods in the White House. “I’m not joking. There are methods to do it,” said the tycoon.
While he acknowledged that “it is too early to think about it,” the 78 -year -old magnate said which would seek to postulate to the presidency in 2028.
Anyway, the Amendment 22added to the Constitution American in 1951 after Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected president four times in a row, states that “No person will be elected to the position of president more than twice.”
Before Trump’s statement, NBC journalist Kristen Welker asked him if one of the methods that Vovler access to the White House would be to apply to vice president JD Vance to the main position for him “Then the post will happen to you.”
The Republican said that “that is one but there are others also”, although he later refused to specify what other forms analyzed to overcome the legal restriction.
Derek MullerProfessor of Electoral Law at Notre Dame, said that amendment 12, ratified in 1804, says that “No constitutionally ineligible person for the position of President will be eligible for that of the United States Vice President”
In that sense, he explained: “I do not think there is any ‘strange trick’ to evade the limits of the presidential mandate,” Muller told the AP agency. In turn, he considered that Trump is talking about a third mandate for political reasons, to “show as much force as possible”, although he argues that he could not do it constitutionally.
“A president in his transition stage as Donald Trump has All the incentives of the world to appear that he is not a president in his transition stage“, said.
Donald Trump highlighted his popularity and said he could achieve a third mandate
The president said that Americans would agree with a third mandate due to their popularity. Although the numbers do not support it, he said “The highest figures in the surveys of any Republican in the last 100 years”
Gallup data shows that President George W. Bush reached an approval index of the 90% after the attacks of September 11, 2001. His father, George Hw Bush, reached 89% after the Gulf War in 1991.
The last surveys of the same consultant indicate that it reached 47% approval, despite having claimed to be “in 70% in many surveys, In real surveys”
Source: Ambito
