So, if Trump really was, in fact, elected to be president in 2020, then he has already been elected twice. Since the 22nd amendment say this: “Text. Section 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice…” Isn’t he precluded thus from running a third time in 2024?
Maybe at this point the liberal strategy should be to say “OK, fine, you won in 2020-- you were elected in 2020. That means you can’t run for a 3rd term in 2024!”
One of the challengers in Maine made this argument. It didn’t carry the day with the secretary of state. The flaw, as I see it, is Trump didn’t win, and we can’t play “gotcha” because he said he did. The winner is the person who was certified on 1/6/20. It wasn’t Trump. He’s eligible (under the 22nd amendment) to run again. Even, if by some miracle for him he could establish he should have won if not for cheating, fraud, and miscellaneous hijinks, he still wouldn’t be precluded.
Precisely.
Trump’s argument is that he got enough votes to win so he should have won, if you discounted all the illegal votes and restored all the votes for him that were removed.
But even though he might rhetorically say “he won”, what he clearly means is “he should have won”, not that he actually was declared the winner. There’s no legitimate “gotcha” here.
It’s a great insider joke, but since it’s already been made thousands of times it obviously has no more impact on Trump or his cult than any other joke. Or any reality, for that matter.
Sooo, by Trump running again in '24, he by default admits Joe Biden won in 2020 and accepts that he lost, right?
Well, Trump said his first term didn’t count because Democrats were mean to him.
He did that a long time ago, on January 7, 2021.
Aw, and that was supposed to be my birthday present
Sound Constitutional reasoning.