Question about term limits

[GMDino]

https://www.quora.com/If-the-vice-president-of-the-U-S-finishes-out-a-presidents-term-can-he-she-still-run-for-two-more-terms

(Their emphasis...not mine.)

Quote:The 22nd Amendment specifically addresses this issue.


No person shall be elected to the office of the 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 to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.

If a Vice President becomes President upon the death, resignation or impeachment and conviction of the sitting president, he or she can run for two full terms in their own right if and only if they have served less than two full years of the term of the president they replaced.  If they have served even a day over two years of a previous president's term, then they are limited to one additional term of their own.

This means that the longest someone can technically serve as president is 10 years; two four-year terms of their own after serving EXACTLY two years of a previous president's term.

So, for example... President Obama's second term is from January 20, 2013 to January 20, 2017.  If he had resigned or died in office on or before January 19, 2015, Joe Biden would have become president, but would only have been eligible to run for president once more, in 2016.  If Obama had resigned or died in office on or after January 20, 2015, Biden would have been eligible to run in 2016 and again in 2020.