If Tommy Tuberville has learned anything during his time in Washington, D.C., it’s not to bet against President Donald Trump.
The Republican senator from Alabama spoke with CNN about the possibility of a third term for Trump on Tuesday and refused to rule it out.
“If you read the Constitution, it says it’s not [possible],” Tuberville said. “But if he says he has some different circumstances that might be able to go around the Constitution. But that’s up to him. We got a long way to go before that happens.”
Trump and his associates have floated the idea of a 2028 run, even though another go-round is blatantly unconstitutional. Trump denied having thought about a fourth campaign earlier this week, only to immediately contradict himself and say that a plan to run as vice president was “too cute.” Tuberville said a third term for Trump was “very unlikely,” but added that he thinks it’s foolish to predict a future where Trump doesn’t get his way.
“There’s going to… have to be an evaluation from President Trump’s viewpoint to the Constitution,” Tuberville told the network. “There will be a lot of legal aspects to it… Don’t ever close the book on President Trump.”
Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, House Speaker Mike Johnson said there’s no way for Trump to get around the term limits in the Constitution.
“The president knows, and he and I have talked about the constrictions of the Constitution, as much as so many of the American people lament that,” Johnson said. “He has a good time with that, trolling the Democrats, whose hair is on fire about the very prospect.”
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