21 Jan 21
@mwmiller saidYes.
Will Biden remain as president for the full four year term?
Of course anything can happen. But from a political point of view you would do a serious disservice to the Democrats if he would give up, without a really good reason. Republican candidates would talk about a "trojan Horse" in the next election.
21 Jan 21
@earl-of-trumps saidI'd say 18 months,.... the people like AOC are anxious....they will not rest after his honeymoon, and the pressure, the decisions he will have to make, will be just too much for him. As you have all said at one time or another, he is a nice man. A nice man is no match for rabidity. (is that a word?)
of course not.
you'd have been better choosing an over/under month of his term, and I'd say 27.
As in, I think he will be out of it by the 27th month of the term.
21 Jan 21
@earl-of-trumps saidodd number choice
of course not.
you'd have been better choosing an over/under month of his term, and I'd say 27.
As in, I think he will be out of it by the 27th month of the term.
are you a numerologist?
21 Jan 21
@averagejoe1 said“ A nice man is no match for rabidity. (is that a word?)”
I'd say 18 months,.... the people like AOC are anxious....they will not rest after his honeymoon, and the pressure, the decisions he will have to make, will be just too much for him. As you have all said at one time or another, he is a nice man. A nice man is no match for rabidity. (is that a word?)
Did a red squiggly line appear under the word?
21 Jan 21
@joe-shmo saidNo, that’ not exactly how it works. The 22nd Amendment of the US Constitution allows for a person to be elected to the office of President for two terms. If Biden is not able to finish his term, Harris would complete his elected term and them be eligible to be elected for two additional terms.
I'd imagine it will be just under half term so Kamala's two+ years will be considered her first term. If that is how it works?
Does that make sense?
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21 Jan 21
@hakima saidSo if he immidiately resigned the post Kamala could thoreticaly have three terms?
No, that’ not exactly how it works. The 22nd Amendment of the US Constitution allows for a person to be elected to the office of President for two terms. If Biden is not able to finish his term, Harris would complete his elected term and them be eligible to be elected for two additional terms.
Does that make sense?
@lemondrop saidlemon drop is right (it’s actually such that she can serve as unelected President up to two years)...so theoretically, she could serve up to 2 1/2 terms or, in other words, 10 years.
only if she serves less than half a term as president
I believe that is how it goes
@hakima said22nd amendment allows a president to serve a maximum of two and a half terms, i.e., ten years - a sitting president is eligible to stand for election twice if s/he inherited less than half of a previous president's term, but only once if s/he inherited more. So LBJ, despite have been elected once in 1964, was constitutionally permitted to stand again in 1968 (having served only fourteen months of the term he had inherited from JFK in 1963), although he eventually chose not to do so. By contrast, Gerald Ford, who had served more than half of Nixon's unexpired term after the latter's resignation in 1974, would not have been eligible to stand in 1980, had he won in 1976.
No, that’ not exactly how it works. The 22nd Amendment of the US Constitution allows for a person to be elected to the office of President for two terms. If Biden is not able to finish his term, Harris would complete his elected term and them be eligible to be elected for two additional terms.
Does that make sense?
If Biden were to die, resign or be successfully impeached before January 20th 2023, Harris would only be eligible for one term in her own right; she would be allowed two if his term ended after that date.