Republicans are advocating to repeal the 22nd Amendment so that Donald Trump can serve a third term in office if he wins the November 2024 presidential election.
The American Conservative, a right-wing blog and partner of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, published an article titled ‘Trump 2028’ which describes the 22nd Amendment as “plainly unfair” and places “artificial limits” on “voter choice,” according to watchdog group Media Matters.
“As the primary season has shown us, the Republicans have not moved on from Trump—yet the Twenty-second Amendment works to constrain their enthusiasm by prohibiting them from rewarding Trump with re-election four years from now,” Peter Tonguette, a contributing writer to the Washington Examiner argued in the post. “This is plainly unfair. Indeed, there has long been support for axing the Twenty-second Amendment due to the artificial limits it places on voter choice.”
He argued that it “cuts against basic fair play” to not allow Trump to run for a third term if he is popular enough to come back and win a second nonconsecutive term, and that voters should not be “denied the freedom” to elect him to a second consecutive term in 2028.
The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 is an extremist policy and staffing initiative to reshape the federal government to support the agenda of the next Republican president,.
They plan to fill key positions with loyalists to roll back civil rights, ban abortion nationwide, exacerbate climate change and weaken democracy, among others.
