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    Harris will be able to serve two terms. The 22nd amendment says:

    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

    The second clause applies to vice presidents taking over, but since there’s less than two years left in Biden’s term, it won’t come into effect.

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        … 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…

        So having previously served two years exactly is allowed.

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          If we’re being pedantic, Harris already served as acting president for 1h25m on November 19, 2021 while Biden underwent a colonoscopy. If hypothetically Biden had died or resigned exactly 2 years into his term (January 20, 2023 12pm ET), and Harris assumed the presidency for the remaining two years, her total time would be over 2 years and she would be ineligible for a second term.

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              I’m always pedantic, except when I’m not 😂

              So you are not always pedantic. So you are not really pedantic if you said you are always but are not… unless you were pedantic about saying you are not always pedantic?

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              In that case, could she have her new VP take over for a few hours to negate that time she accumulated previously?

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          New conspiracy theory: The reason the US has only incredibly old presidential candidates is because the VPs are pulling all the strings.

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          I am not sure. From the wording above, it sounds to me that you can get elected as VP and then kill your boss 25 months into the term indefinitely. Loophole!

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            If you are just going to go that route, you don’t need to wait the 25 months. Just keep getting picked for vp, ice them immediately and take over. Don’t run for reelection, just get the vp nod on the next ticket, rinse and repeat. If you think that sounds preposterous, remember we are on the cusp of re-electing a racist rapist with a spray tan.

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              Who blatantly tried to stage a coup, in front of the entire world, and the majority of his stooges are going to jail left and right for corruption.

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      Wait, so you can’t elect someone a third time even if it’s not consecutive? For a example in Brazil it’s illegal to elect someone third times in a row, but two times, someone else gets elected, then re-elect that person again is okay. In fact the current president has already been president twice in the past.