“With your scenario, though, are you suggesting that he will serve a 3rd term?”
Not exactly.
What exactly do we call it when a president “loses” an election due to fraud and is put back into his rightful office when the fraud is demonstrated and there is a public outcry against the illegitimate officeholder?
We don’t know. This has never happened.
Would the period 2022 to 2024 be considered Trump’s second term? Or would it just be considered some sort of weird hybrid term-like thingy?
And we are not even sure to what extent the military will be running things for a bit under a scenario in which it is shown that the demonrats conspired with the enemy to rig the election.
Bottom line: Trump really doesn’t get a true second term in any scenario.
As far serving a complete third term, as it were, from January 2025 to January 2029, maybe he doesn’t and maybe it doesn’t really matter.
It might be enough that he runs, wins handily in a clean election, gets some initiatives going, and then says a couple years later that he just thinks he is slowing down too much with age to really serve the people and turns it over to a V.P. like DeSantis.
I think I’d actually rather prefer a DeSantis to get a head start on being president before actually running for president.
My take - just a crazy “out there” thought - Trump reinstated by 2022, so he serves 3 years of his 2020 election term. He runs again with DeSantis as running mate in 2024, with the caveat that mid-term, DeSantis takes the Presidency and a new VP is elected or appointed or however they do such things.
Okay, thanQ for clarifying. True, we are in uncharted territory.
As a certain president whom I greatly admire has said a few times:
Let’s see what happens.
“Would the period 2022 to 2024 be considered Trump’s second term? Or would it just be considered some sort of weird hybrid term-like thingy?
And we are not even sure to what extent the military will be running things for a bit under a scenario in which it is shown that the demonrats conspired with the enemy to rig the election.”
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I think we would be looking at a type of interregnum.
The military would step in and run the govt until the 2024 winner is inaugurated.