All undecided voters in a U.S. swing states focus group hosted by pollster Frank Luntz said President Biden should be replaced as the Democratic nominee after watching his first presidential debate against former President Trump.

  • stoly@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    You’re allowed to be president two times, this is a constitutional amendment. But for it to count as one time, you have to be president for some fraction longer than 50% of a four year term, i.e. 2 years plus 1 day. So if Biden can survive that long then die, Kamala would be president but it wouldn’t count as a term. She could then run for office twice more.

    • Thank you! So, in that situation, instead of 3 consecutive terms, we could see 4.

      Assuming she’s successful, becomes far more popular, and there are no major crises that work against her.

      The most reliable way to get re-elected is to be president when a war starts. Like how Bush Jr engineered 9/11 so he could ensure re-election(*). But it tensions escalated with Russia and we got involved, that’d do it.

      (*) Yeah, no. I don’t really believe that. It’s just a joke.