Why a President Cannot Be Recalled
The U.S. Constitution does not allow for the recall of a president outside of the impeachment process or the removal of a commander-in-chief who is deemed unfit for office under the 25th Amendment.
In fact, there are no political recall mechanisms available to voters at the federal level; voters can't recall members of Congress, either. However, 19 states and the District of Columbia allow for the recall of elected officials serving in state positions: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington, and Wisconsin. Virginia is unique in that it lets residents petition, not vote, for an official's removal.1
That is not to say there has never been support for a recall process at the federal level. In fact, a U.S. senator from New Jersey by the name of Robert Hendrickson proposed a constitutional amendment in 1951 that would have allowed voters to recall a president by holding a second election to undo the first. Congress never approved the measure, but the idea lives on.
After the 2016 presidential election, some voters who disapproved of the elected president or who were disappointed that Donald Trump lost the popular vote but still defeated Hillary Clinton tried to launch a petition to recall the billionaire real-estate developer.
There is no way for voters to orchestrate a political recall of the president. There is no mechanism set forth in the U.S. Constitution that allows for the removal of a failing president save for impeachment, which is applied only in instances of "high crimes and misdemeanors" no matter how much the public and members of Congress feel that a president should be dismissed from office.
To give you some idea of how prevalent buyer's remorse is in American politics, consider the case of President Barack Obama. Though he easily won a second term in the White House, many of those who helped elect him again in 2012 told pollsters a short time later they would support an effort to recall him if such a move were permitted.
The survey, conducted by the Harvard University Institute of Politics in late 2013, found that 47% of all Americans would have voted to recall Obama at the time the poll was taken. Fifty-two percent of respondents also would have voted to recall every single member of Congress—all 435 members of the House of Representatives and all 100 senators.
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