Donald Trump won the 2024 Republican election in a surprising electoral battle against Democratic Party candidate Kamala Harris .
Trump not only swept the Electoral College swing states , he also won the popular vote, confirming that Americans wanted him back.
The New York billionaire governed the United States from 2016 to 2020. Then, in 2020, he lost his re-election bid to Democrat Joe Biden and in 2024 he made a triumphant return to the White House. His inauguration as president will be on January 20, 2025.
Typically, US presidents serve eight consecutive years if they are re-elected. But Donald Trump will serve at different intervals.
Before him, only one president had ruled the United States for eight non-consecutive years. That was Grover Cleveland , who served his first term in 1884. He then lost his re-election bid in 1888 to Benjamin Harrison, but won the presidency again in 1892.
Will Trump be able to run for re-election? Is there a limit?
After completing his four-year term in office, Donald Trump will no longer be eligible for re-election . The 22nd Amendment to the US Constitution states only that “no person shall be eligible for re-election to the office of President more than twice.”
In its section number one it says: “No person shall be elected to the office of 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 for which another person has been elected President shall be elected to the office of President more than once.”
The only way this can change is if amendments to the amendment are passed by three-fourths of the several states, which is highly unlikely. “This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission to the States by the Congress,” Section 2 states.
So we are facing Donald Trump ‘s last term in office. The Republican Party will have to present another candidate in the next elections.
The profile of voters who supported Donald Trump
According to the Associated Press , Donald Trump’s voter profile for 2024 was people over 45 years old, people with a high school degree or less, whites, and people living in rural communities or suburbs.