I learned about this little known fact when Nixon after two years into his second term, and Ford took over. Republicans were hopeful that Ford would serve 10 years. Nope.
Same would happen with Harris. She’s a train wreck.
A former Senate Judiciary Committee staffer and current head of a conservative legal organization has laid out a scenario wherein Vice President Kamala Harris could become president and serve ten years in office — two more than a traditional two-term president.
In a tweet, Mike Davis, who served as chief counsel for judicial nominations for the committee, wrote that per the 22nd Amendment, Harris could become the longest-serving president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who was elected to four terms before the passage of that amendment, which limits presidential terms to two.
“Per the 22nd Amendment, if President Biden leaves office after January 20, 2023, a President Harris could still run for two 4-year terms (10 years total). If Biden left office before then, Harris could only run for one 4-year term (6 years total),” he pointed out in a tweet containing a link to a Congress.gov site explaining the amendment, which says, in part:
Section 1
No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this Article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.
🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸 on Twitter: “Per the 22nd Amendment, if President Biden leaves office after January 20, 2023, a President Harris could still run for two 4-year terms (10 years total).If Biden left office before then, Harris could only run for one 4-year term (6 years total).https://t.co/P6SaYiaozK / Twitter”
Per the 22nd Amendment, if President Biden leaves office after January 20, 2023, a President Harris could still run for two 4-year terms (10 years total).If Biden left office before then, Harris could only run for one 4-year term (6 years total).https://t.co/P6SaYiaozK