If Trump Is Going to Win Again...
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R., Fla.), who has an exemplary record, can make a strong case that President Donald Trump proved to be an utterly conventional politician in his failure to control federal spending and Anthony Fauci.
But so far Mr. Trump maintains his lead in polls of Republican primary voters.
A lot can happen in the next several months but many of Mr. Trump’s critics are getting the queasy feeling that America’s 45th president might also be her 47th.
Now along comes an anonymous author in the Claremont Institute’s American Mind proposing a “half-measure whose time may have come." The author, who seems resigned to a Trump nomination, writes: Trump could campaign on the explicit promise to step down from office and go back to Mar-a-Lago (or the Fulton County jail) immediately after the expiration of the two-year period referred to in the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution, concerning term limits. It states that “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." Translation: If a reelected President Trump steps down on or after January 20, 2027—let’s play it safe and make it on or after January 21, since January 20 won’t be a full day of either president’s term—his VP can serve out the rest of Trump’s term and then go on to his or her own election in 2028 and, thanks to the half-measure, his or her reelection in 2032.
That’s 12 years of GOP control of the White House to try to recover from Biden. Trump could therefore campaign on the promise to resign in midstream—what he could call his “Farewell Promise to the American People." Some might naturally
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