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John T. Bennett

Trump tries to shrug off opponents’ rush to define him as lame duck

By continuing to tease a bid for a legally prohibited third term, President Donald Trump could delay what every second-term president resists: becoming a lame duck.

Any president approaching the final two years of their second term eventually becomes that weakest of political birds. Lawmakers, foreign governments, political donors, journalists and potential successors start looking beyond the outgoing occupant of the Oval Office.

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