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In the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, many Americans have been left scrambling to understand the widespread doubt that has been cast over the U.S. election systems.
More Americans than ever now doubt the integrity of American elections, and most U.S. voters believe that cheating is likely to affect the 2024 presidential election results.
The potential implications that have arisen after the 2020 election and the mass chaos that kicked off in the wake of drawn-out vote-counting and murky mail-in ballot drop boxes have drawn the ire of many proponents of election integrity, including President Donald Trump.
He has long stated that the 2020 presidential election was “rigged and stolen,” and since leaving office, there have been numerous controversies surrounding the counting and receiving protocols for mail-in ballots.
On Saturday, while speaking at the NRA Annual Meeting in Dallas, Texas, Trump suggested that a potential reelection win for his campaign in November 2024 could represent a “third term.”
He told the audience, “You know, FDR [had] 16 years — almost 16 years — he was four terms. I don’t know, are we going to be considered three-term? Or two-term?”
This comment might suggest that if he were the rightful winner of the presidential election in 2020, he would technically be the President of the United States right now, marking a technical third term upon a November win, following this line of logic.
President Trump has called Joe Biden a “Manchurian candidate” who is “owned by China.” He has also described Biden as “corrupt” and “compromised.”
A Manchurian candidate is anyone who is manipulated or controlled by an enemy power to harm their own country. President Trump’s theory here on Biden, coupled with his own comments about a potential “third term” presidency, seems to illustrate that the 45th president strongly believes that Joe Biden is simply not the rightful Commander in Chief.