Joe Strata for Congressional District 11

Joe Strata is a Republican businessman, Trump ally, and one of five Republican candidates running in the November 2026 midterm elections. His alliance with Trump says much about his candidacy: he has little evident government experience and appears to believe, as Trump did before taking office, that government can be run like a privately owned business.

One of his most prominent promises in television ads is that he will “deliver on term limits.” This again suggests a lack of understanding about how government works. Establishing congressional term limits would require amending the U.S. Constitution, either through approval by two-thirds of the House and Senate followed by ratification by three-fourths of state legislatures, or through a constitutional convention called by two-thirds of the states.

So here is the simple math of this under option One (1)

 

TOTAL

FOR PASSAGE

REP

DEM

House of Rep

435

287

218

*213

Senate

100

66

53

*47

States

50

41

23

**16

* Includes independents that caucus with Democrats

** 11 states have neither a Democrat or Republican majority in this state legislatures and so are unknow.

To pass a constitutional amendment establishing term limits under Option One, either 69 Democrats would need to join Republicans in the House, or 74 Republicans would need to join Democrats, to meet the two-thirds threshold.

 In the Senate, either 13 Democrats would need to join Republicans, or 19 Republicans would need to join Democrats, to reach the required two-thirds vote.

At the state level, meeting the three-fourths requirement would require Republican-led states to secure support from 18 additional Democratic-led or mixed-control states. Democratic-led states would need all 23 Republican-led states plus at least two mixed-control states—or 11 mixed-control states plus 14 Republican-led states.

In short, Mr. Strata’s claim is unrealistic: achieving that level of bipartisan support for term limits would be extremely unlikely, even though most Americans support the idea.

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