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In an interview, Trump said he would be willing to run for president again if the Constitution allowed it, and noted that he was leading in the polls; However, the 22nd Amendment to the US Constitution limits the President to a maximum of two elections, and the limit on amending the Constitution is also quite high.
trump In an exclusive interview with the political podcast Pod Force One broadcast on the 2nd, he expressed his desire to run for president again if the Constitution allows it. Trump told host and New York Post columnist Miranda Devine: “If I had the chance, I would love to run for re-election, but the provisions of the Constitution are very strict.”
This interview was pre-recorded on October 30. Trump said in an interview, “I would love to run again. A poll a few days ago showed me leading everyone by a wide margin. I would love to run, but it doesn’t matter, we still have more than two years.”
“There is still a lot of time and a lot can be done during this time,” he said.
The 22nd Amendment to the Constitution states that “No person shall be elected more than twice to the office of President.”
If the Constitution is to be amended to remove presidential term limits, both houses of the House of Representatives and the Senate must pass a two-thirds vote threshold, and state assembly resolutions in three-quarters of the country must support it. Or two-thirds of the states in the country call a constitutional convention and propose constitutional amendments in the convention. No matter which channel is adopted, if an amendment is to be passed, more than three-fourths of the country’s 50 states, i.e. 38 states, must ultimately approve it.
Trump last monthiowa At a campaign event he said he had the right to run for president again because of “fraud” by his rival camp.
He said, “The law says I can’t run for president again, but I’m not 100% sure. I’ve studied that section of the law.”
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He made it clear that he would be happy to run for president again if the Constitution allowed, emphasizing that it was not that he did not want to run, but that he was limited by the provisions of the current Constitution.
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He said that recent surveys have shown him to be well ahead of everyone else, so he believes he still has a competitive advantage; He also said that the next election is still more than two years away and there is still scope for change in timing.
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It must be passed by two-thirds of the House of Representatives and the Senate, and approved by three-fourths of the state legislatures; Or it should be proposed by a constitutional convention called by two-thirds of the states, but in the end it still needs the approval of 38 states.
