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Garritt C. Van Dyk, Senior Lecturer in History, University of Waikato

Trump is not like other presidents – but can he beat the ‘second term curse’ that haunts the White House?

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While he likes to provoke opponents with the possibility of serving a third term, Donald Trump faces a more immediate historical burden that has plagued so many presidents: the “second term curse”.

Twenty-one US presidents have served second terms, but none has reached the same level of success they achieved in their first.

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