• Redvenom@retrolemmy.com
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    10 hours ago

    India and Mexico already had female presidents and both of those countries have very intrinsic machismo, but the US is not there yet. I don’t have any faith in the US, most likely scenario is that Trump runs a 3rd term because laws, logic and consequences don’t apply to him

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      What you missed is that AOC has a much better chance than Mamdani. Why? Because Mamdani’s chances are essentially zero. Mamdani immigrated to the US. Only natural-born citizens can be president. Mamdani becoming president would require the removal of this constitutional provision. That would require an act to pass by 2/3rds vote in both chambers of Congress and then for that amendment to be ratified by 3/4 of all the individual state legislatures. While this is theoretically possible, it’s essentially impossible. Immigration is already unpopular in the US. And there’s no way you’re getting 3/4s of the states, including many deep red Republican states, to amend the constitution so Mamdani can be president.