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President Trump did not rule out seeking a third term in office on Sunday, telling NBC News that he was “not joking” about the possibility and suggesting there were “methods” to circumvent the two-te...
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The 22nd Amendment, which was added to the Constitution in 1951 after President Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected four times in a row, says “no person shall be elected to the office of the President ...
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“I’m not looking at that but I’ll tell you, I have had more people ask me to have a third term,” Trump told reporters Sunday.
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"Trump may not want to rule out a third term but the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution does," one expert told ABC News.
President Trump has periodically floated the idea of serving a third term in office since his first reelection campaign and seemed to double down on it Sunday during an interview with NBC News, suggesting "there are methods" to do it despite term limits set by the 12th and 22nd Amendments in the U.
Rep. Ami Bera (D-CA) is reacting to speculation that President Donald Trump could run for a third term. Trump has acknowledged that the many supporters who want him to run for a third term have “methods” to facilitate their goal.
Donald Trump tells NBC News he won’t rule out a third term. MSNBC’s Ari Melber fact-checks Trump’s statement, reporting on how The Constitution prohibits presidents from serving more than two terms. (
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) sidestepped a question on Monday about whether President Trump could run for a third term in the White House. “Do you think Trump can run for a third term?” a reporter
GOP Rep. Ryan Zinke of Montana told CNN’s Pamela Brown that he “likes the Constitution as written” and said he believes most Americans feel similarly.
President Donald Trump said in a Sunday-morning phone call that he was “not joking” about a third term, adding that “it is far too early to think about it.”
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The New Republic on MSNTrump Goes Full Dictator With Delusional Threat About Term LimitsA second approach to repealing the term-limiting amendment could be via a Constitutional Convention, though two-thirds of states would need to support the motion to have one at all, and any proposed changes to an amendment would still require ratification by three-fourths of the states.