Well, that’s pretty easy actually. If the GOP has the House and the Senate they can just impeach the newly-elected President if they renege.
But any POTUS candidate that was planning on doing that would be running with that explicit platform. It wouldn’t be a big secret. And going against that promise would be political suicide.
However, I think that the two-term limit is so sacrosanct at this point that it would pretty easily lose the Vance/Trump ticket the 10%+ that would cost them the election. So as much as Trump would love to daydream about it, and will definitely bluster about it, he will have to settle for being the kingmaker and the real power behind the Vance presidency.
The House can impeach by majority vote sure. But the Senate tries the case and they need a 2/3 vote to convict. Are you expecting all of the Republicans (except Murkowski) and then some of the Democrats to convict just so Trump can get back into office?
Which at that point means a one-term President. So resign and be a 9 day President with what kind of political future afterwards? Yeah, I wouldn’t resign.
Considering Harris lost the election in 2024 when in a sane nation she would have gotten 500+ EVs, I wouldn’t count on that.
And get a lifetime pension, Secret Service protection, and presidential library.
ETA: But I don’t think it will go down this way. Trump will simply declare some national emergency as a reason the election must be postponed (for only two weeks, don’t worry)
Just like they would never allow Trump to tear down the East Wing of the White House without permits and Congressional approval. You really need to learn the difference between “Can’t”, and “Not Supposed To”.
A shit load of money and the adoration of basically every Republican in the United States. And as a cherry on top you get be the de facto next in line of succession when he dies.
You think that after Trump gets what he wants form someone that he will then follow through with the rewards that he had promised. That is beyond naive.
If he’s still alive (and up-and-around to at least some degree), I think this is what will happen.
Donald is desperate to invoke the Insurrection Act and declare that all elections must be postponed For the Duration. He’s so desperate that he’s insisting that Portland is aflame, right now:
He has no intention of leaving on January 20, 2029. If he lives, he will be continuing on at Mar-a-Lago North (formerly known as The White House).
There’s no federal authority to “postpone elections”, though. The federal government doesn’t run elections, states do. What’s he gonna do - post Seal Team Six at the mailbox to stop me from dropping off my ballot and declare that our city council and state insurance commissioner are now in office for life?
If you want to bet that the Trumpites can’t find a way to “postpone elections,” by all means do so. (Not on this site, obviously, but I bet there are sites permitting such bets.)
I’m not sure your faith in Trump following established precedent, much less actual laws, is justified.
“The Trumpites” have no power in my state. The governor, both houses of the legislature, and the Supreme Court are all controlled by Democrats. So yes, I’d say they can’t find a way to change the fact that we have a general election scheduled for 11/7/2028, short of an actual armed takeover of the state itself, civil war, and the declaration of the First American Empire.
And I will go on the record predicting that the blue states may hold elections, but that the Electoral College will not hold proceedings and there will be no new President elected.
The Electoral College doesn’t “hold proceedings”. The electors meet separately in their own state capitals to cast their votes and submit them in writing to Congress.