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.
So hypothetically if Biden died two years into his term then Harris could serve the two plus 8?
… 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.
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.
New conspiracy theory: The reason the US has only incredibly old presidential candidates is because the VPs are pulling all the strings.
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!
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.
