25th Amendment Explainer: What Happens if Trump Is Deemed Unfit to Serve

It’s complicated, but our Constitution provides for continuity

Ben Jacobs
GEN
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4 min readOct 2, 2020

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President Donald Trump’s diagnosis with Covid-19 just a month before the presidential election has been the latest shock to the United States in what was already a year marked by uncertainty and instability.

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Ben Jacobs
GEN
Writer for

Ben Jacobs is a politics reporter based in Washington. Follow him on Twitter at @bencjacobs.